The day had finally come, weeks of planning, hotel deposit paid, letter written. So on august 26th I set of to the post office, letters sorted into neat piles by country. Each pile of envelopes wrapped by a single elastic band. There were to be no mistakes the letters for our conference were finally ready for posting. So armed with nothing more then a credit card it was posting day.

We sat back, relaxing in the glow of a job well done, waiting for the postman to deliver or registration forms, work out the conference meal booking and finalise the plans for our family outing.  What I did not plan for was the postal service.

With letters stamped and on the way it should have been a formality, the mail man does his job, delivers letters, that is the duty of the postal service, since  1840 when the first stamp was introduced, the cost of a stamp a letter would be delivered anywhere in the world.

This has not been the case for what should have been a simple task for the post office,  to just deliver letters, after all they have had enough practice. This has not been the case.

Many people have not yet received the conference information, so if you are one of them please don’t worry, the information will be posted on this website for you to download at your pleasure.  As for the post office, I will stick with email in future, at least that is reliable.