Post Office and Royal Mail

[Benelli B76]

Your statement on "knowledge of the subject matter" confirms how little knowledge you have of the subject matter.

A large percentage of RM goes by aircraft, aviation rules do not allow pressurised containers. The journey to Belfast is by Sea so low risk... Also to be considered is the mechanical handling and sortation equipment used in processing the mail, again a risk if a pressurised item becomes trapped.

Feel free to correct me if your knowledge on this is greater than mine..

I know a little bit about aviation, having worked as an aircraft detail fitter converting the Victor bombers to tankers at Radlett and also on the BAC 111 at Luton airport. There are a lot of pressurised containers containers on aircraft as mentioned by Rob. I believe these items were posted by second class mail which is not likely to fly anyway. I know it is the Royal Mail rules, and we have to abide by them if we want to use he service, but what I was saying is have the people who make the rules actually using realistic facts. Since coming back to live in U.K. I was surprised how much the place has tied itself up with health and safety rules which are just a thin veneer for appearances only, and not very effective in actual life.
Some of them are in fact a joke.

Baz

[gingernut]

Baz- You mean that the removal and inspection of Mrs Gingernuts Scholl sandals by airport security is just a joke?

I did wonder if it was a great contribution to the fight against terrorism but I assumed that the lady doing the search had information we did not.

[derekj]

Baz- You mean that the removal and inspection of Mrs Gingernuts Scholl sandals by airport security is just a joke?

I did wonder if it was a great contribution to the fight against terrorism but I assumed that the lady doing the search had information we did not.

Scholl sandals? How can it be balanced and fair given that my wife and her pals, flying out of Gatwick a couple of years ago witnessed an assumed Muslim woman in full Hiab breezing through security checks and not once asked to be led to somewhere discreet to have the Hiab presumably removed for obvious reasons? Wife's group of friends all gasped in shocked amazement at what had just occured in front of their very eyes, but wisely all of them kept quiet but talked of nothing else as they sat in the boarding lounge. 21st century Britain; don't you just love the place? Sorry to the OP for the digress.