Leave post at the bottom of rural drives to save the environment, climate change tsar says
I never really liked Gummer. His comments here open up the thin end of the wedge which suggests to me that we are not far from the end of a fair universal postage service. This article tells us:
People who live in the more isolated countryside should be encouraged to follow the American example and install a post box at the end of their drive and collect their letters themselves, John Gummer, the chairman of the influential Committee on Climate Change has said.
The Conservative peer, who sits in the House of Lords as Lord Deben said people in the countryside should be “encouraged to do something ourselves” in an effort to reduce the cost of delivering rural post.
The Committee on Climate Change which gives advice to both the Government and Parliament on setting and meeting carbon budgets and on preparing for the impacts of climate change has been chaired by Lord Deben since 2012.
It would be people such as himself, he said, who lived in the country who would be particularly at risk if there was “any diminution in the strength of the universal postal service”.
His comments came as peers pressed the Government to ensure that the privatised Royal Mail continued to deliver to everyone in the UK for a standard price.