It's not every day you see a man riding around delivering
letters on the back of a Penny Farthing bicycle, but to the
residents of Bude - a small coastal town in Cornwall - it's
becoming a bit of regular sighting.
Not one to sit around and grumble at Royal Mail's latest price
hike, Bude based entertainer-come-poet Graham Eccles has decided to
take action by delivering the local's letters on the back of a
Penny Farthing, at a much more palatable price! Eccles collects
mail twice daily from the collection points he's knocked up around
the town, and will deliver just about any letter for 25p on the
same day - that's 25p cheaper than Royal Mails increased price of
50p for a 2nd class stamp!
It's a great idea - if a little eccentric -which will hopefully
save the locals plenty of money and, should the local community
support it, offer a much more personal postal service than the
Royal Mail (I'm sure even the romantics among us would have a hard
time topping the notion of receiving a hand-written letter from a
mysterious man on a Penny Farthing).
The price to send a parcel via the Royal Mail has also soared in
2012 (by up to a staggering 70% in some circumstances) which,
according to a Royal Mail spokesman, "better reflects the cost of
handling packets which cannot be delivered through the
letterbox".
It's a good job then, that myParcelDelivery.com™ - just like
the Penny Farthing Postman from Bude - has decided to offer a much
more affordable (and convenient) means for people to deliver their
goods!
