The Post Office

When I started in business I would get, on a normal day, ten or more letters. People communicated by telephone and, if there was a need to make a permanent record of a communication, by letter mailed through the post.

Today I get virtually no letters by mail; perhaps two a week.

What comes is journals, advertising supplements, sometimes checks paying accounts (but most people pay some other way) and Christmas cards. The only significant user of the mail remaining is the Courts - they still mail reminder notices.

Why I mention this is because the plan to cut back on mail service (albeit residential) to three days a week is self-defeating. People in major urban centres (not, in fairness, rural areas and the North) have already moved on from the mail system -- making the system less useful will merely make people give up on it entirely.