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Hi, I’m Simon Thompson, CEO of privately owned royal mail. I’m on a pay and bonuses package worth £750,000 per year. But let me explain to you how posties on £12 an hour are greedy for wanting a pay rise. Ragged Trousered Philanderer tweet 20 November 2022
Piers Morgan says women send him their knickers in the post. Presumably with the message, From one twat to another. Frankie Boyle
We have been travelling through the galaxy now for three million years and there are many things we’ve discovered. The highest form of life in the universe is man, and the lowest is a man who works for the Post Office. Red Dwarf s1e5: Confidence and Paranoia, Holly, BBC 1988
The post-pod’s arrived. It’s been tracking us since we left and now we’ve turned round it’s caught up. Yes, that’s about average for second-class post. Red Dwarf s2e2: Better Than Life, computer
The postman always rings twice. James M Cain, novel 1934
Tell him there’s a post come from my master, with his horn full of good news. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice V i 46
With the launch of the first ever door to door drone delivery service … [cuts to child] ‘I love you, drony’. JoyCamp: The Amazon Drone Movie
Tonight: exclusive footage revealing the secret world of online shopping. The home deliveries driving us to distraction. How some rogue delivery drivers are giving the good ones a bad name. And does this ten-billion-pound delivery industry need a shake up? Tonight: Secrets of Your Online Shop, ITV 2018
Parcels neither signed, sealed or delivered. ibid.
Online shopping and delivery disputes are on the increase. ibid.
Shocking new evidence about a national scandal: we reveal how the Post Office ruined hundreds of lives. The Post Office knew its computer system could make money go missing but they accused staff of stealing anyway. And postmasters were jailed because bosses kept the truth from coming out. Panorama: Scandal at the Post Office, BBC 2020
One of biggest miscarriages of justice in British history: the Post Office prosecuted hundreds of postmasters over missing money. ibid.
557 Postmasters took the Post Office to court … The Postmasters were proved right. ibid.
‘It amounts to the 21st century equivalent of maintaining that the Earth is flat.’ ibid. Bates v Post Office
In 2020 when much of the world slumped, Amazon is booming. Sales are up by 40%. It’s making an astonishing £1.6 billion in profits every month. Amazon has not only benefited from lockdown it plans to become even bigger. The Truth About Amazon: How to Shop Smart, Channel 4 2020
Nearly 90% of us use Amazon and it’s the first place 70% of us go when searching for products online. ibid.
What’s recommended will not always be the best price … Click pass the Buy box. ibid.
The high street is opening up shop on Amazon and it’s sometimes undercutting itself. ibid.
It’s not just about plastic packaging or delivery miles either. What to do with returned items is a colossal problem too. ibid.
Multiple examples of second-hand goods sold at more expensive prices than the original version. ibid.
How Amazon became the biggest online retailer on the planet by cleverly copying its rivals, ruthlessly poaching sellers, trying to dominate our internet search and ultimate dominate all our shopping. The Truth About Amazon II: How it Took Over the World
Amazon has made almost £263 billion in sales this past year. ibid.
Amazon beat ebay with a very simple strategy: reliable delivery to your door first. ibid.
Which home brands to launch and at what price … Whether they use data from their sellers to create own-brand products. ibid.
Even Amazon found its way on to Tik Tok. ibid.
Millions of us have defaulted to Amazon. Its sales reached £72 billion in the autumn as many of us turn to what we believe is a reliable, trustworthy retailer. The Truth About Amazon III: Can You Trust It This Christmas?
Some toys aren’t just poorly manufactured, they can be downright dangerous … Amazon has let far too many unsafe products slip through its net. ibid.
Warehouse: In this little corner of the Amazon universe the savings are worth the hunt. ibid.
The Vouchers page: this button is the gateway to a world of deals … You can arrange these deals in order of best deal first by clicked the Discount Percentage tab. ibid.
The search page URL hack: &pct-off=30- … After you search for any product in the Amazon search bar, add this code to the end of the URL and something magical happens. ibid.
Can Amazon fight the fakes? … Why is Amazon not a fake-free zone? ibid.
Surprise Deliveries: Should we be worried? ... ‘The problem is how your information got into the hands of these Amazon sellers in the first place …’ The whole reason the scam exists: fake reviews. ibid. expert
Amazon are offering a new service where you get to trade in new phones. ibid. expert
8.30 p.m. Weekdays and Sundays: the Down Postal Special leaves Euston for Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Night Mail 1936, GPO Film Unit
This is the Night Mail crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner, the girl next door.
Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb:
The gradient’s against her but she’s on time.
Past cotton-grass and moorland border,
Shovelling white steam over her shoulder. W H Auden, Night Mail, 1936
500,000,000 letters every year. ibid.
When the bag is full it is tied, labelled and sealed ready for dispatch by apparatus or at the next stop. ibid.