It takes the Royal Mail on average 3 days to deliver a first class letter from one part of Edinburgh to another.

And even then, it will all turn up at one in the afternoon.

Lets just hope this venture doesnt suffer from the same, how shall I put it? - ineptitude.

You have to remember that the post office used to lead the world in communications technology.

They introduced telegraph services in Britain in1870, and phone services in 1912. They used to be responsible for Britain's entire phone network until 1981, when BT was demerged from the Post Office.

And, didn't they also discover RADAR, while trying a shortwave radio thingamajig. (Technical term.)

Actually, radar was invented and developed by the research establishment at Great Malvern, Worcestershire.

The research establishments are now QinetiQ.

Well, if you include PlusNet in the BT offering, they both don't seem to be very good at delivering..

So will I have to go round to my neighbours house to find my lost emails then?

And would I have to pay for special delivery for an email to be delivered some time in the next 24 hours, or pay an £8 handling fee to receive international emails?

Best. Subheader. Ever. Dunno about radar, but didn't one of the GPO's boffins come up with vital bits of the first computers at bletchley?

NB, plz to read 'first (computers at bletchley) not (first computers) at bletchley. If you see what i mean...

Tommy Flowers MBE was a Post Office Exchange engineer who invented the Colossus electronic computer to decrypt German messages, unfortunatly he couldn't tell anyone under the official sectrects act, so in the intervening 30 years, the yanks told the world they were the first.