![]() SIR – I read Mick Brown’s article on ironing (Features, September 16) with a sense of sadness. He and his colleagues – similarly hard-working – are constantly let down by management. However, our postman, Mike, is amazing: he collects parcels from our house, sometimes returning several times if I’ve forgotten to put them out ready, and is always smiling and cheerful. Last Christmas was especially difficult because of the Royal Mail strikes. I run a small online business that obviously depends on fast, reliable delivery. SIR – Amid all the justified criticism of Royal Mail, I would like to speak up for the posties. However, Royal Mail refused to deliver it until a £2.50 surcharge was paid because the stamp had, apparently, been used before. Using one of the new, large second-class postage stamps from a sheet that I had bought from our local post office, I sent a cheque to one of our church’s suppliers. SIR – Royal Mail should do all right over Christmas (Letters, September 16) if it keeps to the formula it has just applied to me. But will the Government spending our money instead have a different effect? I struggle to see the logic. The Chancellor’s reasoning appears to be that allowing us to keep more of our own money to spend as we wish will cause inflation to rise. ![]() SIR – I was interested to see your report (September 13) that Jeremy Hunt has said tax cuts aren’t coming, on the grounds that they would make things worse. The Liberal Democrat and Labour vote would crumble in the face of such pragmatic steps. These would be to abolish inheritance tax and abandon HS2. I believe that as few as two pledges would suffice. However, we need the realistic promise of a better life if we are to re-elect the Conservatives. SIR – Your Leading Article (“Labour can be beaten”, September 16) is encouraging. SIR – If only the billions allocated to HS2 could instead be spent on nuclear power stations and small modular reactors. Does he want to go down as the Prime Minister who built the most expensive railway to nowhere? However, there was a rallying cry from the chair of finance, who asked: do you want to go down as the council that dug the most expensive hole in history? But when inflation came, it began to lose heart. It got the land cheap and the building was costed at £8 million. The late Berkshire county council built a new headquarters at Shinfield Park. SIR – I was never convinced by the justification for HS2, but once you have embarked on these major projects, you have to see them through. And that’s without taking into account the disruption to towns, villages and the countryside. Few people will use even the Birmingham-to-London section. ![]() SIR – The exorbitantly overpriced HS2 project should never have been approved in the first place, but it needs to be stopped now. Vast amounts of money have been spent, without any accountability – and for what? It is time our politicians woke up and cancelled the whole sorry enterprise. SIR – You report (September 15) that the northern leg of HS2 “may be axed to save £35 billion”.
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