h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

would you really trust the royal mail?

Tchah! I take it that's a rhetorical question?
They /always/ decide to go on strike just when I need to send something important, or expect something. Plus, Amazon UK always use Royal Mail. So there's no buying anything until it's all over.

i have a magazine subscription and its supposed to be coming from London BIIIG mistake!

iI don't think it's effecting us up North yet, everything goes to Edinburgh so if they go on strike we're truely b*ggered.

And I'm expected to be writing to three friends at the moment

As their website pleads, it's just London and Greater London that's effective. It may contravene the House Rules for commercial links, but here's their URL: http://www.royalmail.com - Notice the important strike information part.

"Effected", even.

lol, that's the problem!

I have no clue where they're centrally based. A lot of places are central to Leeds for some reason - so perhaps it isn't so bad unless you're planning on sending to /receiving from London.

check the post stamp I mean up here everything goes to Edinburgh to get sent out.

waaat?

i dunno, felt like laughing

oh okay

Well, I hear the strike is off and the last of the backlog is being purged through... Hopefully normal service will be resumed again soon.

I've said it before, and, alarmingly, I'm going to say it again. Roll on privatisation. It didn't work so great with the rail, but come on - the smaller courier services have their work cut out for them with the appalling service offered by Royal Mail. I'm sure it'd be an improvement.

as in the daily mail milkmen should deliver post

my post is hole punched for my convience

by my dog

hehe, mine just gets covered in muddy paw prints from that cats

well she's gorgous (sp?) but a great holepuncher.specially for bills