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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.
Behind the scenes of our Christmas deliveries. How is the post coping? The rise of so-called porch pirates. And the people delivering Christmas to those who otherwise would go without. Tonight: Post & Parcels: Getting Christmas Delivered? ITV 2023
In the UK we spend an estimated £20 billion on Christmas gifts last year. And around a third of our shopping was done online. 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
The Royal Mail customers demanding to know, ‘Where’s my post?’ More than a quarter of all first class post was delivered late by Royal Mail last year. Some posties say at times we’re told to prioritise parcels over letters. One manager said, ‘Everyone knew what was going on.’ With Royal Rail losing hundreds of millions of pounds, it says it can no longer deliver like it used to. So what’s the future for our post? Panorama: Royal Mail: Where’s My Post? BBC 2024
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.
‘I went through hell.’ Mr Bates vs The Post Office, lady victim, ITV 2024
‘Do the post office bosses go to prison too?’ ibid. Outside Court of Appeal
This is the story of a saga that began nearly 25 years ago. A group of sub-postmasters from all over the UK fought to expose one of the widest miscarriages of justice in British legal history. ibid.
‘Dealing with the Post Office has been more difficult than dealing with the Mafia.’ ibid. defence dude
In 1999 management introduced something completely new. A computer system called Horizon. It was the biggest IT rollout in Europe. The Post Office connected forty thousand terminals across the county to one central hub. ibid.
‘I never had a problem balancing until that [Horizon] was installed. And then a couple of months after that I had a very big shortfall …’ ibid. lady victim
‘Just overnight £11,000 …’ ibid.
Under the terms of their contracts, the 20,000 sub-postmasters were liable for any shortfall no matter the cause. ibid.
In north Wales (Llandudno, Conwy) one sub-postmaster took a different approach. ibid.
‘We had someone come in and spat on the floor.’ ibid. Jess, victim
‘I told them straight away I was about £52,000 down.’ ibid. chap victim
‘Let’s see if we can get people together and let’s see how big the problem actually is.’ ibid. Mr Bates
‘I even tried to commit suicide in hospital … and it’s all down to the Post Office.’ ibid. Jess, victim
The day after Michael’s visit to Fujitsu, the Post Office officials paid him a visit. ibid.
‘She [CEO] decided it was preferable to cover-up the injustice and to allow the sub-postmasters to go to the wall. And I think that’s shocking.’ ibid. legal chap
People whose lives have been devastated by the Post Office. Many of them have been bankrupted, prosecuted, or imprisoned. ibid.
During the case The Post Office were forced to disclose evidence they’d always claimed was irrelevant. ibid.
Does my wife make good toast, that’s the burning question. Play for Today: Home Sweet Home by Mike Leigh, Harold at breakfast table, BBC 1982
You won’t catch me working on an oil rig. ibid.
Oh shut up, Harold. ibid. wife
I’m not going on no bleeding diet. ibid. Gordon