And the managers in charge of sorting offices who decide to stop deliveries at a moment’s notice may wish to give a thought to communicating their actions to the public.

For their information, there’s a medium called “radio” which is now over 100 years old. So popular has it become, that there now exist special buildings containing people and equipment which, when working together, allow dissemination of “radio programmes”.

There are many varieties, one type of which is referred to as “local radio”, serving local areas. The makers of such programmes welcome “local news” that allows them to more fully fill their programmes and I am sure that they would welcome a daily call from a sorting office manager to allow them to advise the local audience of which rounds have been suspended.

This would permit people and businesses to become aware of the fact that no attempt will be made to deliver their Special Delivery parcel, allowing them to make alternative arrangements such as gong to the sorting office to collect it themselves.

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Try recycling collections too – it seems that there was a great deal of ‘pick and choose’ which bins to empty in the run up to Christmas with no attempt made to rectify the missed collections between Christmas and New Year when the roads were clear. This has left recycling uncollected for almost a month – what service we are paying for!

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Ah yes, telfordfan, they’re quick to complain if you put the wrong stuff in the wrong bin, quick to threaten with a fine if you “flytip” by leaving a plastic bag with excess rubbish by your bin, but not so quick to come and rectify the problem when they mess up.

No recycling collection here for several weeks and great swathes of land covered in old newspapers and soggy presents cardboard which they told us to leave outside so they could collect the day after a missed collection.

How many fixed penalties will be issued to the council for causing the deposit of litter in the environment.

Advice to all – if they cannot be bothered to collect recycling for the moment, just put it in your normal bin until they can.

And be ready for the new food scraps recycling, being enforced soon in a location near to you. Should be fun in the next snowy weather, seeing all the vermin and rats gorging on scraps that have been left out for and uncollected for several weeks.

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