Britain 1660, the Post Office is created under Charles II. 1840, the Penny Black postage stamp is introduced. Mail is delivered 17 times a day. 2024, the price of a first class stamp rises to £1.35. Mail is delivered once every three days, and letters sent in 1917 are still only just reaching their destination. A penny of today’s money would have bought thirty three pence worth of goods and services in 1840. That’s a lot of laudanum, arsenic and below stairs servants. All things being equal a first class stamp should cost 33p not £1.35, meaning the Post Office is charging 4.1 times more than is decent and acceptable. Why this state of affairs? The Post Office unjustly prosecuted a big mailbag full of the Sub-Postmasters, thanks to a very dodgy computing system it installed, with fraud and it owes them all a shitload of compensation which, obviously, The Post Office are looking to get from us. When you send a birthday card to your mother with the words ‘Love you, Mum’ the postal service is enforcing a system that means you actually love your mum only one quarter as much as you should, or want to, convey. The Post Office actively hates the matriarchs of this world and some think it is due to a strong link (undiscovered as yet) with the East India Company and its nefarious practices which are ongoing to this day despite rebuttals to the contrary. Finally, maths is not my strong suit. #sifrants #sifrantsagain #funny #humor #readforfun #writeforfun #funbooks #comedybooks #laugh
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