14 MAY 1994, Page 29

Post haste

THE POST OFFICE — motto: please hurry up and privatise us, we want private sector salaries — has a newly commercial approach to its express delivery service. This despatches your letter to a special counter (opening hours: 8 to 10 a.m.) where the postman has to come and get it. By the time he gets there the counter has closed, so the letter is passed on to him for next day's delivery. It has taken a day longer than the usual post and costs ten times as much. Tell Sid.