Does anyone still work for a living?

It seems to me that it is largely due to being unfortunate enough to be under a board of management that concentrated on the wrong things, like spending millions, I understand, on ditching the name Royal Mail for the new name Consignia.

Now after I have spent a great deal of my time trying to learn how to spell it they have ditched it! For what? Royal Mail!

Surely it is time such ridiculousness should be rewarded with enforced retirement but of course these days when enforced retirement is made on the grounds of inefficiency (losing millions of pounds of our money that we would have preferred was spent on our creaking NHS) it costs the public a great deal of our money.

However, I am going to be selfish and look after number one. I feel I have a case for compensation for the time I've wasted in trying to understand what Consignia meant. This gave me a sense of inferiority because I didn't know and everyone else did. In turn this caused me a loss of confidence that made me frustrated and short-tempered.

This then upset my friends who have avoided me which has added to my trauma.

So I feel that in this compensation-claiming climate where TV advertisements tell me that a solicitor somewhere will fight my case on a no win no costs basis, I think I'll have some of that!

This no win no costs seems to be a growing bandwagon that more and more are showing their initiative by jumping on. So why not me? After all it is easier than creating wealth on which we pay taxes which gives the Government more money that the NHS is short of and so cannot pay our devoted nurses higher wages.

I always thought that wealth creation was the answer so that there was more of it to go round but I suppose in these days of peculiar theories, that view is old-fashioned nonsense pre-Consignia!

Isn't it a funny time in which to live? No wonder the Two Ronnies have retired they must have felt they had been overtaken by the times!

LESLIE LOADER

Mildenhall, Marlborough