Once the Royal Mail is privatised, the Post Office will have to go its own way, and don't be at all surprised when more and more rural post offices start to close, and the post office counter service becomes a small adjunct of Tesco, squeezed between the deli, the electrical counter and the pharmacy.
Post office counter space may be cheaper than a full station, but I don't know that it will move London towards the larger goals the Met envisages unless it is accompanied by an internal reform process to improve the way officers wield their powers.
They encouraged us to stroke the post office counter, which we did.
"Aha!" said the man behind the post office counter, a little too gleefully for my liking.
"From Claudia Rodriguez to her childhood friend," says an Asian clerk seen standing behind a post office counter, accepting a package.
But if fraudsters get on the books under false identities, they may prove harder to budge: Mr Hearnden and his colleagues will no longer be able to nab them at the post office counter.
But, for Soucy, it was also an act of muscle memory — less about the principal of the debt than the principle of the habit — so he stepped up to the post office counter.
While the miners and steelworkers of the 1980s worked in relatively insular steel and mining towns, everybody knows a BA cabin steward, a train guard, a baggage handler or a Post Office counter worker.
Reinforced with such thoughts, I was back at the post office counter at Chamarajapuram, weighing the packet; this time I enclosed with the three manuscripts a personal letter imploring the editor to give himself a chance to read the compositions.
It pledges the ex-prime minister to use his first cabinet meeting to cancel the tax and arrange for the reimbursement "to your current account or, especially for pensioners and others who prefer this method, in cash at the Post Office counter".
