THE "Pricing in proportion" fiasco that the Post Office is introducing is obviously another step towards privatisation of some parts of the postal service.

It wouldn't be so bad had the service not been so awful anyway, but we have to cope with missing mail, late mail and regular junk mail which seems to be the only form of mail efficient enough to get here at a prescribed time.

I would have thought this intention to create even more confusion for the public was nothing less than a joke.

Never mind, I suppose we will have to put up with half converting the kitchen into an engineering workshop just so we can send out our daily post.

The steel rule is now ready and waiting in the toolbox, although I'm not sure of the accuracy of the kitchen scales.

However, the vice was cheap enough, and, after all these years, my dad's old micrometer, passed down from his engineering days, will come in handy.

He will be in his element that I'm putting it to such a good use.

Ian Upton, Bolton