On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 15:47:39 +0000
Neil Williams wrote:
On 2015-12-08 12:35:42 +0000, Roland Perry said:

The new Post Office has just two windows, plus a "parcels reception
desk". Normally they again have just two staff on duty. For whatever
reason the queues are now much shorter, although this may be a result
of them having institutionally dumped almost all the types of business
other than weighing and stamping letters and parcels.

Or because it is much more convenient for the majority of the
population to access Government services online rather than via the
post office. The future of the post office is in my view local shops
able to offer postal[1] services.

[1] That assumes a postal service even has a future. It doesn't seem
to do anything a courier can't, other than universal service, which
could be offered in a different way.

And presumably these courier services would install pillar boxes with once
or twice daily collections in almost every urban street in the country with
letters delivered for a few tens of pence? No, didn't think so.

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Spud