Going Postal II
17:45 UK time, Tuesday, 9 October 2007
It's three years since the Magazine set out to test the British postal service with its experiment, .
Back then, the Royal Mail was being dogged by questions about the punctuality of its first class post.
Would that it were the only concern today. After two 48-hour strikes within the space of one week by postal workers, Britain's once prized postal network has been brought to its knees. The Royal Mail even asked the public not to post anything for fear it will lead to a huge backlog of post.
With workers due to start returning to sorting offices on Wednesday, the system creaked back into action. But the effects of the backlog and the threats of further strikes next week point to an uncertain future.
What better time to test the system again? This time, instead of one card being passed along a chain of readers, we had 10 vintage-edition Magazine postcards (see above) ready to be despatched to 10 willing recipients.
Thanks for the hundreds of people who volunteered to take part. The postcards were posted on Wednesday morning in west London, to addresses all over the UK.
As soon as any of the 10 volunteers receives the postcard, they will send us photographic evidence (by e-mail or SMS, not in the post!). Watch this space for updates.
