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Letter to: Joe Harris. General Secretary. National Pensioners' Convention. London

13 December 2006

Pensions, Post Offices and Politics

Dear Mr Harris

Political ideology masquerading as wisdom can ruin all our lives. The British postal service was at one time a very senior service, high about the mechanistic materialism, which monitors our existence today. We have all fallen into the trap of believing that we are here on Planet Earth to make money.

That mistake has given us a choice of going down the drain of socialism or capitalism. Two separate means of access to the same cesspit.

Socialism persuades us that we are entitled to all we can get from others. Capitalism tries to show the chosen ones how to take what they want from others.

Neither choice is any good to a human being, for whom the most senior pleasure of all, is to successfully help another. No ideology yet invented has raised its sights that high.

But the concept that was the Royal Mail, was very much on the higher ground and sought to provide a utility for the ordinary citizen right out of the top drawer.

Read the two essays attached, to get a glimpse of the higher purpose. It would save the day for the post offices of Great Britain, if we were guided by the dictum that a rural post office, must be and must remain fit for purpose.

We can discuss what the ideal purpose is and ensure that it is observed, but there would be no question of ever allowing one Post Office to be closed.

Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB