Got a letter yesterday with a barcode to go to the post office with our lecky key-meter key.
£66 worth, and the promise that we'll get another £66 next month, and then £67 in Dec, Jan, Feb and Mar, totalling £400.
We don't use anywhere near that much lecky!
We'll be in profit for the rest of 2023!
We need gov.uk to send someone round to use my chainsaw and wheelbarrow to collect the firewood!
Or buy us coal instead perhaps.
Whilst I was getting my letter and barcode sorted, the people in the PO were complaining about all this.
The machine that the key is put into, will only take a maximum of £49. You have to remove the key, and then reinsert it to get more.
Also, the PO in Tavistock scans the barcode, then the post-master/mistress has to draw out £66 in
cash, and go over to the retail shop part of the place, to pay them, so they can charge the key ......... twice.
The post-mistress said that this procedure is going to create havoc in a busy shop. The whole thing may have taken ten minutes to complete which included the post-mistress coming out from behind her kiosk, locking up, and then going back, unlocking, and getting back on duty for the rest of the customers. I was the third person she had to do it for, and that was before 10am.
Mick F. Cornwall