Huge wrote:

A damn nuisance all round,
yet the PO were uninterested in doing anything about it.

Why should they GAS? They're a State sponsored monopoly.

Wait until they've been run out of business by private competition,
and you've got three or four purely business oriented competitors
delivering all the post. It'll be nothing but high-priced deliveries
and junk mail, you can be sure of that!