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Date: 14 February 2008 12:34:36
I work on the edge of Bridgend. It's not a particularly great place but it's not that bad either. It' about half-way from Cardiff to Swansea and, apart from the rugby team and suicidal teenagers, it isn't famous for much.
However it is a largish town and not as backward as some small villages, hidden away among the Pringles packets of everday life.
Ebbw Vale is about 35 miles away at the top of a valley. It is windswept desolate and equally unfamous, apart from the rugby team, former steelworks and the reopened passenger line that seems to have taken forever.
Now I never knew that Ebbw Vale and Bridgend were so remote that you needed to fly post from one town to the other. I never even knew that Ebbw Vale had an airport. Yet that is what Royal Mail have told me.
I sent a letter 2 days ago to a customer in Ebbw Vale. Today it turned up on my desk with a label saying:
There isn't enough postage on this Airmail item so we are returning it to you. To resend it take it, with this label attached, to a Post Office branch and pay the missing postage.
Now the envelope had no airmail stickers and the address clearly shows Ebbw Vale through the little window. So why can't it be sent?
Maybe Royal Mail really are as a bad as everyone thinks they are.......