Sirs,
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.
John Eoin Douglas
7 Spey Terrace
Edinburgh
To "ER" is human ... 26/7/11
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