
It really came home to me - again! - yesterday as I went to one of the only two Post Offices still open in Leeds City centre (there used to be six). The queue was phenomenally long. There were 11 service points of which only 2 were manned - other staff who presumably could have been manning them were just chatting away as if the Post Office was empty.
Then there was the make up of the queue which was about 2/3rd's ethnic. Each ethnic didn't just want to post a letter or withdraw benefits (although they may have been) - but most were armed with huge parcels which they all wanted weighing for Overseas and/or trans cash transactions to send pounds sterling abroad.
It was the best part of 50 minutes before I got served - and the price of postage had again gone up - anything which isn't wafer thin seems now to have to large letter.
For a country which invented the postal system with the introduction of the Penny Black by Rowland Hill in 1840, we have gone totally downhill.
The two deliveries a day have gone and post is delivered at erratic hours. I am reliably informed the Royal Mail have also taken on a hoard of asylum seekers postmen and women and their knowledge of the postal areas is from bad to nil.
Just another facet of what is exponentially becoming "Break-Up" Britain.





