Results tagged “Letters” from Birmingham Mail - Is It Just Me

Just had to shell out £1.16 for excess postage on a late birthday card we didn't really want because it was a staggering centimetre wider than the permitted width for a letter.

As it only had a second class stamp it was 16 pence light. At least I assume it was a stamp and not a description of what has become of our postal service under Adam "why should I care I am on £1.25 million a year plus bonuses" Crozier - another Scot gaining some sort of revenge on the English by the way.

The other £1, the handling fee, presumably helps to pay for an army if men with rulers delving though postbags measuring miscreant mail.

Some of us are old enough to remember the days when a letter posted in the morning to an address in the same town might well be delivered that afternoon.

For the benefit of younger readers there used to be at least two deliveries a day