Do you hate queueing at the Post Office?
Posted by: Tony Lockhart on 06 December 2004
Well now you can tax your car online:
http://www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/index.jsp
No more lining up with OAPs and chavs.
Tony
http://www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/index.jsp
No more lining up with OAPs and chavs.
Tony
Following Allan Leighton's reappointment as Royal Mail chairman, speculation is
rife that privatisation isn't far away. The serial director's success in turning
a profit for the company while service standards are desperately poor make a
sell-off look increasingly enticing for the government. The rumour is hotly
denied by the department of trade and industry and the company alike. Both stick
to the line that the Royal Mail is a "commercial organisation that provides a
public service", an approach they maintain carries np promise of a sell-off. But
what do those at the top of the organisation really think? Chief executive of
the Post Office David Mills, for example, was less guarded when he appeared
before the Commons trade and industry committee recently to answer questions on
the closure of a number of Crown post offices (those not run by franchises).
Firmly rejecting the idea that these branches should recieve financial support,
Mr Mills explained: "We have, if you like, the last bastion of nationalisation
on our hands here. We are seeing the last throes of a terminal whale on the
beach", before hastily adding that "It would be nice for this national jewel to
be kept as it is, as a national jewel". This was hardly a ringing endorsement of
publicly-owned post offices from the man in charge of them, but Mills' views
should not come as a suprise. Like Leighton, he was another captain of industry
drafted in by trade secretary Patricia Hewitt. Before joining the post office
Mills had enjoyed a 40-year career at Midland and HSBC banks.
Taken from the current issue (1122) of you know what ! "Thank's to Lord G, as
per always for putting the cat amongs't the greed merchant's in the real world's
of selling the public something they already own, good old Maggie too eh, no
dolphins left on that beach, Oh no, by Golly
Fritz Von I bet they get's a bleedin good pension and pay off when they decide
to leave, innit !
rife that privatisation isn't far away. The serial director's success in turning
a profit for the company while service standards are desperately poor make a
sell-off look increasingly enticing for the government. The rumour is hotly
denied by the department of trade and industry and the company alike. Both stick
to the line that the Royal Mail is a "commercial organisation that provides a
public service", an approach they maintain carries np promise of a sell-off. But
what do those at the top of the organisation really think? Chief executive of
the Post Office David Mills, for example, was less guarded when he appeared
before the Commons trade and industry committee recently to answer questions on
the closure of a number of Crown post offices (those not run by franchises).
Firmly rejecting the idea that these branches should recieve financial support,
Mr Mills explained: "We have, if you like, the last bastion of nationalisation
on our hands here. We are seeing the last throes of a terminal whale on the
beach", before hastily adding that "It would be nice for this national jewel to
be kept as it is, as a national jewel". This was hardly a ringing endorsement of
publicly-owned post offices from the man in charge of them, but Mills' views
should not come as a suprise. Like Leighton, he was another captain of industry
drafted in by trade secretary Patricia Hewitt. Before joining the post office
Mills had enjoyed a 40-year career at Midland and HSBC banks.
Taken from the current issue (1122) of you know what ! "Thank's to Lord G, as
per always for putting the cat amongs't the greed merchant's in the real world's
of selling the public something they already own, good old Maggie too eh, no
dolphins left on that beach, Oh no, by Golly
Fritz Von I bet they get's a bleedin good pension and pay off when they decide
to leave, innit !
I've just returned from my PO, and witnessed many normal folk putting a few bob here and there into a fund for the Asia region victims (some €350,000 to date), only from local individuals, many unemployed too (not bad I thought, innit)
Fritz Von Berlinberlin²
Fritz Von Berlinberlin²
quote:
Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:
I've just returned from my PO, and witnessed many normal folk putting a few bob here and there into a fund for the Asia region victims (some €350,000 to date), only from local individuals, many unemployed too (not bad I thought, innit)
Fritz Von Berlinberlin²
Lovely to see that the above trend continues unabated, depending of course on
which paper/Media Outlet you watch and happen to worship at the moment ? I
personally think that the €uropean Countries including Germany naturally, have
thus far proven their sincerity & commitment admirably, innit.
Fritz Von I'minlovewithagermanfilumstarioncesawinamüwie
