Our Post Office (now a counter in the newsagents) is closing. There’s bound to be a campaign to save it, but I’m afraid it and most others are doomed. During lockdown, I started using Royal Mail online. In two minutes, I could print out a nice address label with postage paid to stick on my letters of all sizes. No socially distanced queuing. When it came to sending a big parcel, the R. Mail price was £28 plus a visit to their counter. For £9, a courier came to collect it from my house for next day delivery. And, of course, all of the other stuff Post Offices used to do, pension paying, car tax, passports, has moved online. So farewell Mrs Goggins. And probably Postman Pat, too.
“Should Rishi Sunak’s recent net zero pivot be of concern?'”
The answer to the headline question should be, of course, a big, fat ‘Yes!’ Of course you can, and many do, always say ‘Doesn’t matter what we do it’s China/America/Everyone Else who’s causing all the problems and making electric cars and all the electricity they use is just as harmful and even if we recycle stuff it all gets dumped in the sea in Third World countries anyway…’
