Believe me, it is

Parcels have more than doubled in the past few years and the average weight of a letter has also increased significantly to online magazine subscriptions and catalogues.

This is where some clever spin comes in from the governments point of view. They keep mentioning this 10% drop in LETTERS. What they fail to inform the public of is where the output has increased. Whether or not the parcel increase compensates for the letter shortfall I don't know but I bet it goes a long way towards.

Don't forget the Royal Mail also changed it's pricing structure to include size as well as weight to maximise profit from larger items.

Me too.

This ing thread is a disgrace a few posts about letters arriving late sandwiched between two more dick heads flipantly talking about soldiers dying.

I hope you to idiots never loose a father son or brother in the army,...my how you'll both laugh about it over your keypads......

I'll see you at the cenotaph mickeying on the Poppies.....

What Heroes indeed

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Totally agree with the above. I only started the thread to provoke debate about a very topical issue that seems to be affecting most people in some way. To have the thread hijacked in this way is both appalling and alarming.

And if the mods have anything about them they would ban the idiots who seem to think its acceptable talking about those brave soldiers in that way.