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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!feeder.news-service.com!hq-usenetpeers.eweka.nl!81.171.88.15.MISMATCH!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk!news.cam.ac.uk!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling.moderated Subject: Re: Post Office to stop using bicycles Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:35:58 +0100 References: <4BB5D9D8.5C5B@unixnerd.demon.co.uk> Lines: 11 Organization: Zen Internet Approved: uk.rec.cycling.moderated approval key  NNTP-Posting-Host: rapun.sel.cam.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Moderation: See http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/urcm/ X-Spam-Check-By: spam-6.mail.thdo.gradwell.net User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100408-1, 08/04/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Trace: DXC=BD`M\mliCI>16I<3@m2[j=nok4Z\<mH49hDU:2=XKPk8bP`LI1N1b:6En<S9LLeaZ=Wa\F[8fW21< X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk X-Gradwell-Message-ID: 25465188 X-Gradwell-Forwarding-Rule: 1238298 X-Gradwell-Edge-Server: inbound-edge-2.mail.thdo.gradwell.net X-Gwh-Spam-Score: -2.6 X-Gwh-Spam-Flags: BAYES_00 X-Auth: PGPMoose V2.0 PGP uk.rec.cycling.moderated iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLvmheAAoJEJ0q8Kb5p+MeJXkH/id/5BSyKvJTcO7N8n3SOTqs wna6+yCNMt46RgbHb3Z/GVhB/gWJ4uewVpHiz7dbo3JRNByYBj9aeyrCgNU7azKx tLdWLDr0GcQouHa5bIcUHdRDlwr+ArH5SNguvVU/Qm6Esj5CTlzQNR3ya8WxUasM 6pJKa27GMM7MYJi7qRhtkFLniDKNb77P9m/r+G8fF1Bx2P9IBcIBZL7Nr7GsAeZ3 GnH2zb6JQ7gmJPBOhB3p12Z5x2SLYbaypWcEnUUC87B68XjWxe4BlfMcrFB+IdWh YaXQGa0R89x7dJpZfimzGrZ6UH4W2f3lw1a75VguE2t8zZQIGXiVYfqcSl0q/4c= =/Fgt Originator: @chiark.greenend.org.uk ([212.13.197.229]) Bytes: 2480 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling.moderated:37220

In article <4BB5D9D8.5C5B@unixnerd.demon.co.uk>, john@unixnerd.demon.co.uk says... > > Saw on the BBC website that the post office is to stop using it's 24,000 > bicycles as they're too dangerous.

That really is a shame. It's going to make some shifts take a lot longer, especially those on routes with substantial sections which can be cycled but not driven upon (e.g. on some estates). Who is going to pay for this effective increase in the work that needs doing? One guess.