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Wednesday, December 08, 2004

The Royal Mail

Some quotes from removal companies (based on 3 x 20 Kg parcels):

Aardvark Removals £1050.00 (funny how a lot of companies name themselves "Aardvark", isn't it? Nothing to do with appearing first in the Yellow Pages or Thompson, eh?)

Amber Moves £1370.05

No more removal companies were researched after these first two. Next up- parcel couriers:

DHL (who have a very friendly website): £52.84

Amtrack: Have a surcharge of £19.50 per parcel plus £1.00 per Kg for all Norn Iron bound consignments.

Fedex and UPS have similar charges to DHL.

And finally, the Post Office: With Standard Parcels a 20 Kg package costs £11.21, and it looks like I can arrange collection for £5.50.

Can you believe some people give the Post Office a hard time? For those must live within limited means, they're not bad at all!


Northern Ireland was on the news a fair bit today... (to provide a little context, there was failure to reach an agreement that would allow the restoration of the devolved governmenzzzzz... AGAIN)

...and I found out Ireland is now one of the world's worst polluters (relatively, of course).

"Humiliation" seems to be the word of the day.

And I want to live there? Of course!

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