Royal mail stamp price hikes, quote overpaid ceo, "we aim to improve the service to our customers". Call me a grumpy old man, if you like. In the 1940/50/60 s, we got three postal deliveries a day from a usually smiling postman. Now I am lucky if I get three deliveries in a week, from a usually miserable postman. When I do get a delivery, the letters are bundled in a red band and deliveries can be in the middle of the afternoon. 1st class next day? Forget it. I f they farm it out to private profiteers, we might as well go back to using pigeons