A quick question (and some moans) regarding the royal mail

[skwirt]

Does anyone have a decent grasp of car insurance rules??

Pretty much every morning as I struggle to work past the parked vans/lorries (involving walking in the middle of the road) and the blatantly over worked post men (standing round in a pile of red elastic bands with one hand in pocket and the other operating a fag) there is the odd postman filling what is obvisously a privately owned car with post and parcels. Can I therefore assume that any recent rises in stamp prices etc are required to pay for the 'business' insurance for these cars? Or if one of these were to crash and wreck whatever post it was carrying - that post/parcels would not be insured?

Yours interested

skwirt

[barrymarshall]

I heard that posties sometimes have to use their own cars to get parcels from the depot to the postcodes where they need to be delivered. Increases in postal costs have more to do with the massive bonuses extracted by incompetent management who want to run the service into the ground before it gets privatised.

Let's have a bit of sympathy for postal workers (men and women with kids and mortgages, just like everyone else) who are fighting for their livelihoods in the face of a purely ideological campaign by management and the government to "modernise" and restructure the whole operation, principally by cutting thousands of jobs.