Letter: Greetings cards always delayed
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: I share Mervyn Benford's concern about the increasing inclination of the Post Office to ignore the first-class stamp and make its own idiosyncratic judgements about when to deliver our mail (letter, 8 February).
We have a daughter at school in Newbury who telephones home most days, which enables us to keep an exact record of the arrival of items we post to her.
Post people seem to think that postcards must be frivolous - they cannot possibly contain any urgent message. So postcards sink to the bottom of the pile and always take two or three days. Anything that can easily be identified as a greetings card seems to be automatically sifted out of the first-class system. I have overcome the problem by disguising every card in a plain white business-like envelope - a ruse that is almost always successful.
DILYS BARRATT
Maidenhead, Berkshire
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