Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Yet more proof...
...that the Daily Mail and it's readers constitute an unholy alliance of nostalgia for an age that never was, reactionary knee-jerking, and plain stupidity.
Royal Mail has begun selling postage over the Internet and with uncanny precision, the DM and its fetid followers have pounced upon the central outrage of this pernicious act. Is it the fact that such a move will deprive Post Offices of yet more income, thereby constituting one more step in Royal Mail's ongoing campaign, aided and abetted by government complicity, to reduce the size of the network by taking so much business away that smaller Post Offices are forced to close, thereby simultaneously allowing Royal Mail to claim that it's not their fault and obviating the need to dish out redundancy payments? Ermm, no actually: it's the fact that the new downloadable labels will not have the Queen's head on them.
Click the link. Check out the outrage in the readers' comments, then wonder at the stupidity of a such a large bunch of imbeciles getting worked up over this terrible change, all of whom have apparently failed to notice that the Queen's head has been absent from vast quantities of their mail for decades due to the use of franking machines and printed Post Office labels.
Royal Mail has begun selling postage over the Internet and with uncanny precision, the DM and its fetid followers have pounced upon the central outrage of this pernicious act. Is it the fact that such a move will deprive Post Offices of yet more income, thereby constituting one more step in Royal Mail's ongoing campaign, aided and abetted by government complicity, to reduce the size of the network by taking so much business away that smaller Post Offices are forced to close, thereby simultaneously allowing Royal Mail to claim that it's not their fault and obviating the need to dish out redundancy payments? Ermm, no actually: it's the fact that the new downloadable labels will not have the Queen's head on them.
Click the link. Check out the outrage in the readers' comments, then wonder at the stupidity of a such a large bunch of imbeciles getting worked up over this terrible change, all of whom have apparently failed to notice that the Queen's head has been absent from vast quantities of their mail for decades due to the use of franking machines and printed Post Office labels.
