19 December 2020 • 12:02am
The Prince of Wales meets Royal Mail employee Catherine Griffiths on a visit to the delivery office in Cirencester, south-west England
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SIR – My neighbours and I in this part of London have gone days without a delivery of letters. It is unacceptable for any sorting office to decide which of its customers will be permitted a service on any particular day. But is it not also of dubious legality?
Non-arrival of Christmas cards may not be all that serious, though perhaps distressing, but people are likely to be looking for letters about important legal, commercial or health matters.
SIR – Your Leading Article (December 16) is absolutely right.
Trust in people’s common sense. The vast majority will do what is right. The usual suspects will be irresponsible regardless.
John Taylor
Purley, Surrey
SIR – They break the rules; you bend the rules; I have a very good reason for what I am doing.
Kate Wylie Carrick
SIR – You report that two leading medical journals have criticised the Government’s stance on Christmas.
Readers should understand that the Health Service Journal is actually a magazine for NHS managers. The British Medical Journal, meanwhile, is partly a peer-reviewed publication, but in recent years has also published political comment. Most of this has been critical of government policy (no matter which party is in power), and both journals could be said to share the view that the NHS runs the country.
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SIR – I am the CEO of a small-to-medium enterprise that trades almost entirely in Europe. A hard Brexit holds no fears for us. Indeed, our market share in Europe continues to expand month by month. So I was astounded by the insipid helplessness of other CEOs (“What would a no-deal Brexit mean for business?”, telegraph.co.uk, December 11).
Here’s my advice to shareholders. Fire your CEO and the board if they haven’t already configured the business for a hard Brexit.
Fire them if they only offer products and services that are so unremarkable that they can’t withstand ordinary World Trade Organisation tariffs.