Something's up
The complete shambles that passes for a postal service here in the UK is well known. The media reports on the Post Office's millions of pounds of losses, mail being delivered late or not at all, thefts etc are common place.
But something else has just struck me. All of last week, and I mean from Saturday to Saturday we received not one piece of mail. I cannot remember such a length of time of going without some sort of letter. I used to get 2 or 3 pieces of junk mail every day along with the usual bills for this and that. But nothing for a whole week, and then I thought, when was the last time I received an invitation to take up a credit card or 6? It must be a couple of months now. For the 3 years I've been in this house I got at least 3 a week, but now nothing. I suspect the every growing debt crisis that is surely going to explode in all of our faces someday has finally made an impression on the credit card companies.
Mark my words, there is something brewing in the financial world and it's not good. Either that or my postie is tossing everything in the bin to meet some efficiency target dreamt up by the management.
posted by Ricky Dee at
11:08 AM
2 Comments:
Hi,
It's not unusual for us to only receive our mail as late as 3:30pm. That's a pretty poor service. We do get lots of junkmail though, and as you point out, it's a good way of knowing that the postman has been! I must admit though, there haven't been as many credit card selling junk mails!
By
Ironside, at 29 September 2004 17:55
We used to get our post at 8:30 on the dot but they changed over to their new work patterns and it can come anytime they feel like. I've had acouple of pieces of junk mail in the past few days but nowhere near the same amount as there used to be. Maybe the PO is charging businesses higher rates to deliver the crap now? Either way, something is up, be it the direct marketeers, PO or the credit card companies, something has fundamentally changed.
By
Ricky Dee, at 30 September 2004 11:57
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