Hugh Barnard

Now, as in any underdeveloped and corrupt state, our 'officials' or 'civil servants' (some would call them lazy unproductive, error-prone parasites, not me, of course) are now charging extra for things that they are already paid to do.

To wit, £8 or £13.50 for sticking on a label and then holding the item hostage until the 'fee' is paid. Doesn't that remind you of 'facilitation' fees that you pay elsewhere and are considered to be unethical, by various corporate hypocrites (the ones that have been caught, for example).

Of course, the Post Office itself has a lot of form, viz a viz the postcodes robbery. Still we have to find the execrable Adam Crozier's £1M salary from somewhere, don't we, m'dears?