Re: 24-7 postal service in London - Trafalgar Square, William IV Street? No longer!
John Murphy
days a week. No longer so. Now, it announces that is has 'longer'
opening hours. The post office says:
:
'Most Post Offices [in Britain] are open between 9.00-17.30, Monday-
Friday, and 9.00-12.30 on Saturday.
Post Office with long opening hours:
Trafalgar Square [William Street] Post Office.
TEL: 0207-930 9580
ADDRESS: 24 William IV Street, WC2N 4DL.
TRAVEL: Charing Cross and Leicester Square [underground stations]
OPEN: 8.00-20.00, Monday-Saturday.'
I think it sad and unimaginative that a major capital does not have a
24-7 post office, and I should not be at all surprised to find that
Tibet has overtaken us even if they still use camels to get to work.
Nevertheless, it may be of help to students, visitors and others to
know what is available here in London.
--
Harbinger.
rmer...@cix.compulink.co.uk
<91243bc1-0ce3-4857...@c21g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
london.accommod...@googlemail.com (John Murphy) wrote:
> I think it sad and unimaginative that a major capital does not have a
> 24-7 post office, and I should not be at all surprised to find that
> Tibet has overtaken us even if they still use camels to get to work.
Yaks would seem more probable. Camels are more likely in Mongolia.
HTH.
purple
> I think it sad and unimaginative that a major capital does not have a
> 24-7 post office, and I should not be at all surprised to find that
> Tibet has overtaken us even if they still use camels to get to work.
Socialism is leading to the slow economic collapse of the west. In
the meanwhile, the FSU and satellite countries are taking our
place, almost universally willing to work to get ahead. Castro and
Cuba are beginning to feel vindicated.
Perhaps Castro, the US, and the UK, should see about importing some
working camels. They probably get more bang to the buck in more
efficient conversion than the proposed cellulose based automotive
fuels. Not only that, but they produce fertilizer as a byproduct
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95444264
John Murphy
> In article
> <91243bc1-0ce3-4857-9fea-29d47ab97...@c21g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
>
> london.accommodation.homest...@googlemail.com (John Murphy) wrote:
> > I think it sad and unimaginative that a major capital does not have a
> > 24-7 post office, and I should not be at all surprised to find that
> > Tibet has overtaken us even if they still use camels to get to work.
>
> Yaks would seem more probable. Camels are more likely in Mongolia.
>
> HTH.
would seem more probable. Camels are more likely in Mongolia.
> HTH.
I do most certainly agree with you there, and I had at first decided
that llamas were the principal means of transport in Tibet - until I
learnt they were men of the cloth, so to speak, and, anyway, objected
to a Ministry decision that they could not charge rip-off fares after
midnight.
They were apparently abducted by space aliens who told them they were
quite silly not to push for higher rates after midnight, and they
thought that to do so might be a good idea, but they did not no how to
go about it, so they thought they might just as well forget the
Ministry and return to their monastries.
As others had by now displaced them, they decided to go to England and
attend Oxbridge colleges, and they wrote to that Alan Truelove and he
told them that if they were at least IQ 160 on the Stanford-Binet
scale he would return to England and teach them himselves.
There being so many of them, he felt it that might be necessary to
clone himself, and though thought he might be able to manage to do
that, he was worried that he might forget who was the real one, and
that three of him might come home for dinner and alarm his wife and
family, and he thought that he might arrange with the others that only
one of him came home on any given evening and that they all shared an
apartment somewhere. And he thought that might be all right but he
wasn't sure how well he would get on with himselves.
He wasn't at all mean, though did always worry about the costs of
anything, though realised more money would be necessary, and so cloned
an extra three of himself and got them jobs with MIT under different
names. He'd wanted to get into NASA but felt it must have been left
out in the rain or something because it was shrinking all the time.
Anyway, as they had all turned out to be170+, he welcomed their
initiative and prepared to return to England in order to teach them.
Unfortunately, having little money and no idea where Tibet, was, or
anywhere else, they booked a trip on a West Indian sailing ship that
went along a foot or two above the water, and they sang calypsos and
drank rum 'till the dawn come' - or whatever, and though they had
worked out where they were, it was too late.
They were never heard from again, and, quite rightly, he blamed their
disappearance on the failure to maintain safety standards on the part
of the West Indian Crew. He was very cross.
--
Harbinger.
David Woodhouse
> I think it sad and unimaginative that a major capital does not have a
> 24-7 post office,
It doesn't have any way stations at which the stagecoach can change
horses, either. Is that also 'sad and unimaginative'? Or would it be an
anachronism?
The archaic practice of encoding information in the form of stains on
pieces of mashed tree, which are then physically transported around the
planet, is thankfully dying out. Too slowly for my taste, though.
--
dwmw2
Paul Bird
From the pov of the archivist or historian they do tend to last though
don't they? Are you quite sure that in 500 years historians will be
able to decipher modern electronic scribblings?
PB
John Murphy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Udz50XLF3I
Someone might wipe the HD, but I rather tend to think that 'young
Willie McBride's' beloved would have treasured the few items the War
Office gave her, and, of course, kept them in a special place along
with the letter of condolence, even if they ended up in an Oxfam
shop.
By 'imaginative' I simply meant that much could be done to enhance
rather than curtail services. One would need to give the management
their head, but a comms centre would not be that bad an idea, and,
perhaps sourced out, a coffee shop might be a very good idea.
--
Kind rgds,
Harbinger.
rmer...@cix.compulink.co.uk
dw...@infradead.org (David Woodhouse) wrote:
> *From:* David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org>
> *Date:* Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:20:27 +0100
Post offices do lots of things other than sell stamps, though. Although not
as many things as they used to do.
Mostly they seem to be ways of spending long periods of time standing in
queues. Perhaps they should be converted into airports, which appear to
serve the same purpose.
David Woodhouse
> > The archaic practice of encoding information in the form of stains on
> > pieces of mashed tree, which are then physically transported around the
> > planet, is thankfully dying out. Too slowly for my taste, though.
>
> From the pov of the archivist or historian they do tend to last though
> don't they?
Bugger the archivist and historian. I want my correspondence to last for
my _own_ use.
If people send me information in mashed-tree form, it's going to get
lost. We'll probably light the fire with it, if we bother to open the
envelope at all. If I have it in email, on the other hand, then I'll be
able to find it and refer back to it years later.
> Are you quite sure that in 500 years historians will be
> able to decipher modern electronic scribblings?
I'm sure of nothing. There are certainly web archival projects which
preserve a large amount of _public_ content, but there's a lot of
historical value in _private_ correspondence, which is more problematic.
Perhaps if we all use gmail, that problem gets solved too? :)
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dwmw2