Friday, July 22, 2011

22nd of July 2011 - To "ER" Is Human...


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22nd of July 2011

Dear Sir/Madam,

TO "ER" IS HUMAN...

I was somewhat surprised to see the Royal Mail currently operating a fleet of vans in Scotland which are sign written in Welsh.

Following incidents in the 1950's that saw postboxes with the EIIR cypher being attacked by militant Scottish nationalists who objected to the term Queen Elizabeth the Second on the basis that Scotland had never had a Queen Elizabeth the First, the then GPO undertook to use only ER in Scotland. Yet these vans clearly display EIIR.

Perhaps times have changed and our nationalists no longer care about such things?

John Eoin Douglas