Your Letters
15:59 UK time, Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Try being a postman in December. I have been bitten five times, fallen in a pond after falling off my bike, been out in -10C and have got up for 18 years at 4am. I get £266 if I am on holiday. Would you do it? If we charged the right amount for stamps - 50 to 60p - then you would get a better service and more mail delivered on time.
Kevin Peters, Essex
We sometimes take our excellent postal service for granted (Going Postal II). We don't use it as much as we could and then grumble when it isn't available. Arguments about cost, punctuality, availability and so forth are really quite specious - surely the fact is that we have a postal service that surely is the envy of most if not all other countries. We should remember the old saying "Use it or lose it."
Neill Leary, Lewisham
So Gordon Brown ? Or is it David Cameron who looks phoney? They look remarkably alike to me. Who is copying who?
Starling
I read the washing instructions on a pair of trousers this morning, which said "Professional dry clean only". It made me wonder just how many amateur dry cleaners there are out there. If you're reading this, please could you tell us about what I assume must be a fascinating hobby?
Adam, London, UK
Re the farmer who found a possible explosive device in a crop of potatoes: "A neighbouring farmer said he thought it was a bomb, so I took it indoors and showed the family and they all thought it was a bomb as well."
Please can I nominate this for quote of the day?
Viv, Newcastle
Is it just me, or is today's random stat a bit rubbish? If you'd said 10% of small businesses don't send and receive mail every day, I might have been a bit more excited.
Dylan, Reading, UK
A third way to solve the Rubik's cube is simply to paint over the stickers in the required colour (Monday letters).
Nigel Macarthur, London
I've recently been pondering on an interesting question and was hoping a fellow Monitor reader may be able to answer it for me: if you fell down an upwards-moving escalator, would you keep falling forever?
Joe, Manchester
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