Appearances can be deceptive. Our local post office (pictured and described
here:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6180737.stm> )is
fully computerised, and well able to cope with export shipments. Although
Mary did undercharge me on one occasion, by not pressing the right button
for a signed-for shipment. She rang me the next morning to tell me that she
had corrected her mistake, and I could pick up the tracking number and pay
the extra next time I called in. But in the meantime she had sent the
parcel anyway. In that respect, yes, back in the dark ages of when people
ran the system, rather than vice versa.
--
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Barker
Sent: 25 August 2007 07:53
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] little rant on e-mail politeness
I feel I must defend the Royal Mail, here, Andrew. The working practices in
some of the sorting offices might hark back to the bad old socialist days of
the 70s, but it is extremely convenient, not to mention umweltfreundlich, to
have a post office only a few metres away (300m). I can cycle to post a
parcel, or to pick one up if I wasn't at home when one arrived for me.
The commercial system of couriers is utterly useless and their depots are a
good hour's drive away.
Long live the Royal Mail!
Chris
On 25 Aug 2007, at 06:24, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> My experience of the UK postal system is that it hasn't moved out of
> the dark ages much. Of the French system that it seems much like ours
> with a shop that sells all you need from boxes to bubble wrap. Are
> USPS ones like your voting booths - large, very far apart, closed at
> weekends and full of angry people?
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