If only the PO was like NC
2nd August 1980, Page 25
2nd August 1980
Page 25
Page 25, 2nd August 1980
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IF LETTERS were sorted by the Post Office as efficiently as parcels are by National Carriers at Lawley Street, Birmingham, where one of the world's most advanced electronically controlled systems has been installed, there would be less cause for public complaint.
By an extraordinary coincidence, on the day I went to look at the new computercontrolled octopus at the revitalised 140-year-old depot, the postman delivered to me a letter clearly addressed to my colleague John Darker at his home in Hertford, 12 miles from mine. I was able to hand it to him on the way to Birmingham.
I leave you to work out how such a curious error could occur and to calculate the odds against it happening to two men working for the same journal.