How the modern world doesn't work so well

It was my mother's birthday at the start of the week.
Most of the family she has left are either abroad living and working or elderly or unwell and unable to travel.

So on the day of her birthday she was a little down.
Few phone calls. No visitors and just me with a few presents and a shop bought birthday cake.

I'd been collecting the obvious birthday cards that had arrived in the mail all week.
So at least she had something to open from other folk. That she thought had forgotten. Since she hadn't found them among the post.

Turns out many people HAD remembered. It's just that the postal system is so poor it's taken a week extra for things to arrive !
Today, 12 letters and birthday cards; 4 presents and 3 bouquets of flowers were delivered !

This stupid tiny collection of islands has a postal delivery system worse than just about anywhere else on the planet !

All those whose gifts arrived today don't use the Internet. Have no idea what a smartphone or pc does and still rely heavily on cheques and cash.

Several phone calls today.
They've all agreed between them to send letters and cheques to each other just to annoy the systems they continue to rely on !

Pensioner power !

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FreddieUK · 70-79, M

I have to allow a minimum of a week to ensure a Birthday card arrives on time. I refuse to put on the first class stamp unless absolutely essential because my brain has given up on memory. Second class are only delivered on three days of the week now, so it does mean being really organised and aware of how bad Royal Mail actually is.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@FreddieUK Sounds an excellent idea !
They can deliberately delay second class collection and delivery.
But they can't kill it because too many still use it !
If numbers using it were to decline it would give them the ultimate excuse to kill it !

Same with the postbox collection.

Some boxes they only clear two or three times a week.
So i make sure i use those boxes when I post locally !
That means they can't seal or remove them because they're still being used ! 😃