FN 171, December 2022
Posted: 21 Dec 2022 19:30
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!!
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!!
