The Count is back and ready to serve.
The count is back and is as pissed as hell. The countess says I should stop drinking so much.
The reason the count has been away is because he wanted to post a letter. This meant buying a postage stamp from the post office. He has been queueing for at least the last two years trying to get served. In the meantime, the Post Office network development managers decided to develop the network by destroying it: George Orwell would be proud of their double speak.
Being funded by the taxpayer, they had to consult on their plans to develop the network by closing it down. This sham involved politicians making speeches (be very worried when the loony left and loony right agree on anything). The post office said that we could object if we could show that the existing post offices were economic, but they would not release the financial data because of "commercial confidentiality". Then they said we could object of we could show that service at alternative post offices was not good enough, but they would not say what constituted "good enough" service. So the Count went to an alternative post office to buy a postage stamp and has been queueing ever since. Apparently, two years is an acceptable waiting time for buying a postage stamp. But they did send a letter to the count assuring him that the decision to close all the nearby post offices had taken full account of the local mountains and rivers that needed to be crossed: there are as few mountains in the plains of Cossack territory as there are in London: the count gets vertigo walking upstairs.
Perhaps it was not surprise to find that the post office is run by someone who used to run the Football Association: a degree in incompetence, complacency, buck shifting, arrogance, greed and stupidity is clearly required for both jobs, so his appointment made perfect sense. Above all, you need someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
As the network shirnks and service gets worse, fewer people will want to use the service: the dummies at the post office have clearly not understood this basic reality of network economics. As revenues fall, the post office will discover that they need to develop the network even more by cutting back even more. Eventually, the network will disappear as surely as the Cheshire cat. At the end, the only thing left will be the smile on the face of management as they collect their bonuses for managing the destruction of a viable business.
The true cost of this sham is to be seen in the queues and frustration at post offices and the ever declining trust that anyone has in officials, official statistics, official processes and the whole nature of government. Once upon a time it was possible to believe that government was on our side. It is now clearly becoming the enemy of the people: it is a machine that serves and protects itself at our cost.
The time has come to get rid the evil, faceless bureaucrats and put in place a government which is clearly impartial, competent and capable of looking after the nation: aristocrats are above the venality that corrupts modern government. Our time has come.
The Count has returned and will humbly accept the offer to become the leader of the people.
The reason the count has been away is because he wanted to post a letter. This meant buying a postage stamp from the post office. He has been queueing for at least the last two years trying to get served. In the meantime, the Post Office network development managers decided to develop the network by destroying it: George Orwell would be proud of their double speak.
Being funded by the taxpayer, they had to consult on their plans to develop the network by closing it down. This sham involved politicians making speeches (be very worried when the loony left and loony right agree on anything). The post office said that we could object if we could show that the existing post offices were economic, but they would not release the financial data because of "commercial confidentiality". Then they said we could object of we could show that service at alternative post offices was not good enough, but they would not say what constituted "good enough" service. So the Count went to an alternative post office to buy a postage stamp and has been queueing ever since. Apparently, two years is an acceptable waiting time for buying a postage stamp. But they did send a letter to the count assuring him that the decision to close all the nearby post offices had taken full account of the local mountains and rivers that needed to be crossed: there are as few mountains in the plains of Cossack territory as there are in London: the count gets vertigo walking upstairs.
Perhaps it was not surprise to find that the post office is run by someone who used to run the Football Association: a degree in incompetence, complacency, buck shifting, arrogance, greed and stupidity is clearly required for both jobs, so his appointment made perfect sense. Above all, you need someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
As the network shirnks and service gets worse, fewer people will want to use the service: the dummies at the post office have clearly not understood this basic reality of network economics. As revenues fall, the post office will discover that they need to develop the network even more by cutting back even more. Eventually, the network will disappear as surely as the Cheshire cat. At the end, the only thing left will be the smile on the face of management as they collect their bonuses for managing the destruction of a viable business.
The true cost of this sham is to be seen in the queues and frustration at post offices and the ever declining trust that anyone has in officials, official statistics, official processes and the whole nature of government. Once upon a time it was possible to believe that government was on our side. It is now clearly becoming the enemy of the people: it is a machine that serves and protects itself at our cost.
The time has come to get rid the evil, faceless bureaucrats and put in place a government which is clearly impartial, competent and capable of looking after the nation: aristocrats are above the venality that corrupts modern government. Our time has come.
The Count has returned and will humbly accept the offer to become the leader of the people.
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