A good example of how I don't need the postal workers to some extent, is related to my daughter.

She is 18 and living for the first time away from home in the Netherlands. That is very tough and before all the modern technology, communication would invariably have been by letter.

However, we e-mail her and we use skype with video to talk to her for free as often as we want. I have also bought and sent DVD's from this country and had then shipped to her at very reasonable rates.

I can't remember the last time I walked into a post office to send anything or post a letter.

Even with Faldingworth Live, I never send letters. I accept reservations for payment on the door. Websites and e-mail serve to communicate. The phone is on a anytime basis so I can call anybody for 60 minutes and that is covered in my monthly charge.

If these postmen want to run the business into the ground, who am I to stop them.