FN 171, December 2022

[Keith Bennett]

With the turmoil this third world country is currently in, I fear that I have absolutely no idea when 171 will arrive.

The press file was sent by internet to the printers on 3rd December and the print proof despatched to me just a few days later. It didn't arrive for over two weeks and by then I'd abandoned it and told the press to go ahead and print it even if mistakes were present.

So far, nowt. I've just received an e-mail from a Club member who, along with her husband, has run a Post Office in the west country for many years, Here's part of her message...

" I haven’t had our December FN yet! I take it that’s only down to Royal Mail delays / strikes? (There were days when I couldn’t go into work at our PO because my stock room was rammed with sacks of uncollected mail.) Irritating and inconvenient though strikes are, we totally support the strikers. RM posties in particular are trying to highlight the (in the pipeline) sell-off to a foreign hedge fund and the loss of RM (certainly, of universal rate for letter delivery countrywide) as we’ve known it since Henry VIII’s day. But we have a Govt, sadly, that persists in pursuing only shareholders’ rather than public interest. Where will it end?"

As usual, the rich get rich and the poor get poorer. I think society is in danger of collapsing and then civil unrest will quickly spread. Happy new year!!

[Dave the rave]

Given me a rib in the digs..... Mine landed today. Should have mentioned it straight away..... Apoplexyoligies

[austina40sam]

I got mine today Keith

[Mike Hodgson]

No show in Dorset,however I read the uploaded copy in the archive few days ago

[philcwebb]

Obviously we are privileged in the south east - mine arrived this morning - even more surprised to see my ugly mug on the NEC show pages

[Mike Hodgson]

No show in Dorset,however I read the uploaded copy in the archive few days ago

Update
Arrived today(Thurs)

[Keith Bennett]

Thanks chaps; mine turned up today along with 37 other items of post!

[sid]

mine has arrived

[Easty1887]

Still nothing here in Aldridge!