Going Postal II
11:37 UK time, Friday, 12 October 2007
Britain's postal service is creaking back into action after two 48-hour strikes and the evidence is pictured here.
The Magazine Monitor laid down the gauntlet as the posties returned to work on Wednesday, sending out 10 postcards to readers, from a pillar box in west London.
Perhaps surprisingly, given the distance involved, the remote community of Oban is first past the (ahem) post.
Laura Wright in Oban, in the west of Scotland, received her postcard this morning at 0930 BST, exactly two days after it was despatched with a first class stamp.
Not everyone has been as lucky. Emma Parker, from Cambridgeshire, received a thumping seven items on her doormat on Friday, but no postcard. "I got stuff from eBay that I'd been waiting for, but nothing too exciting. A couple of bills, of course, and some junk mail.
"Last week the only post that got through the strike was junk mail."
Pity the empty doormat in the Cornwall home of Ali Press, which has been bereft of any mail all week. "I saw the postie on Tuesday and he said it would take a week to clear the backlog, even before any more strikes."
Delivery of any letters over the weekend will be noted on Monday morning.
