Booksellers fighting back

Recently we've been seeing TV adverts telling us to download something from the interweb, stick it on parcels in place of a stamp (bring your own glue), and shove it in a special post box "at a point near you".  Not that I've seen one of these at a point anywhere near me. In this way, Royal Mail reasons, it can get rid of village post offices. Which it would love and we would hate, but when did what you and I want ever have much to do with public policy?


Now, during Covid this house has been reading on an industrial scale. Mrs Oons has been getting through a book a day at times. The British Library has been reissuing classic 1930s murder stories, and Abe Books is a fabulous source of second hand books. All at very good prices.

It all comes by post. And today's blip is a typical example of what comes. None of your interweb stick-your-own-labels. All done with proper stamps, saved up from who knows when. Much better looking, isn't it? And it helps keep village post offices going as the social hubs they are.

My favourite stamp here is the William Morris, but then I'm an Arts & Crafts fan.