On Mar 10, 10:04*am, "Dartmoor Will"
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"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message

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John Hall wrote:
On the front page of today's Daily Telegraph there's an item which
begins:

"After weeks of bitterly cold weather, the country is set to bask in
temperatures of up to 64F (18C) this weekend as the sun sweeps away the
last of winter."

I can only assume that the reporter and sub-editor responsible have been
out of the country for the last three weeks or so.
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To be honest it's close to the lunatic fringe, to be honest. We know most
newspapers are economic with the truth but what is the advantage to print
such utter drivel? Will it really sell more newspapers?
Whilst I'm in grumpy old man mood and Lawrence isn't around to provide the
weekly rant, has anyone had their "normal" Royal Mail postal service
wrecked with some new "efficiencies". We had a terrible service about
three years ago with stuff being stolen, not delivered etc. then suddenly
we got a proper post lady, Natasha, who has delivered the mail perfectly
at the same time every day for three years. No mistakes, talks to you,
knows where and whether to put a parcel round the side. You know, all that
old fashioned rubbish. Since last week, following a letter from my
regional manager , P.O. Box Plymouth, they've banned bags for H&S reasons,
stopped her using her car, given her a trolley and moved her to a new
district with a bigger round. We've had four different postmen since, no
deliveries some days, wrong mail, ripped mail and one admitted he'd driven
50 miles to get here and had to take half the mail back at 5pm because he
couldn't find the houses!!
I give up really.
Dave, S.Essex.

Dave, the sort of ******** you mentioned is going on all the time. In all
industries in this country managers are trying to justify their existence by
constant change. See it all the time.
Went to Halfords the other day, thought I knew where the bulbs were, not a
bit of it, store completely re-ordered. We have "refresh this", "refresh
that", in fact "refresh" is the new manager's buzzword to keep them in
employment. Meanwhile the real workers take all the flak from annoyed
customers.

Ah I feel better for that :-)

Will
--http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Haytor/automatic/Current_Vantage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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Ah!. An excuse for a rant! I bought a copy of the DT for my wife's
birthdate-I won't give the date away-suffiseth it to to say that Malta
was voting on whether to integrate totally with the UK and a Hunter
jet crashed into a block of flats in Hong Kong-"an old chinawoman was
killed".
In its six pages there was far more real news and info than in today's
32 page DT. Celebs didn't get a look-in.
The rot started when Murdoch took over The Times. He lead all the
broadsheets into a tailspin that they've never pulled out of. Even the
DT publishes far more retractions than it used to. Newsworthy nonsense
takes precedence over sober reporting-especially when it comes to the
weather, although it has along way to go to catch up with the Express.
Why let facts get in the way of a good story?