No interest in quality

It gives us its website, its email, and its phone number but it omits a postal address, rather is if he players at Wimbledon had scampered over the courts without strings in their rackets.

That is tragi-comedy enough, but when a public body wants to do something that will make our lives worse it always brings out a spokesman who explains in a log-jam of jargon that it will make them better. We poor saps are reckoned to be easily fooled.

Leamington’s Post Office was built in the heyday of the Royal Mail, and it shows in the quality of the building. Why should modern Post Offices be interested in quality? The whizz-kids who run it have succeeded in closing most of the smaller offices in the town, and now they want to move in on the great prize.

To them the future of the Post Office lies not in a building they can be proud of but in a supermarket where we can buy our stamps at the same time as our ready meals and our lavatory paper.

Mr R.P. Taylor, St Mary’s Terrace, Leamington.