My friend posted a birthday card to my mother on Monday, September 15 (approximately 11am) at City Road Post Office box. It was mother's birthday on Tuesday September 16.

The card arrived Saturday September 20 at lunch-time, five days to get from Norfolk Park to Wybourn by first class stamp. May I add we received a card from America, Saturday September 20, which was posted two days later than the Sheffield card.

Come on Sheffield, it would have got here quicker by horse and cart.

E Foley Sheffield S2.

n I received a letter on Saturday, September 20, from a friend on holiday during August, correctly addressed 'Sheffield, Yorkshire.' It had a first class stamp on it, posted from the English Riviera Torquay area. It had five different views on it and across the front of it was a navy blue Post Office sticker obliterating one completely and parts of the other pictures saying: "The sender didn't pay enough Airmail postage on this item, so we diverted it to an alternative service – sorry if there was a delay." Where do the Post Office think Yorkshire is?

There is no frank from a foreign country stamped on it. Perhaps it was from Scotland or Wales, due to modern transport being used? Or they still thought we had an airport in Sheffield?

Mrs M Sissons, Linscott Road, Sheffield 8

n It appears that closure of Post Offices was a result of the Government, whether deliberately, or by lack of forethought, withdrawing services such as payment of benefits.

The fairly apparent result of this policy was that post offices failed to obtain enough income to make many branches viable and, as a result, the decision was taken to close them.

MPs who have spoken out in favour of a particular branch remaining open, although having voted with the Government have, quite rightly, been accused of hypocrisy if they responded to the demands of their constituents, rather than the orders of the party and opposed the closure of a particular branch.

This charge of hypocrisy can also be levelled, rightly in my view, against those persons who voted for a Labour candidate and thus allowed a Labour Government to be formed and destroy the post office facilities, and then protested against a particular closure.

DTA, Dronfield



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