Co 2

I still don’t get it 2 items from the same company why not have the same tracking number.

In the 1960’s I worked on parcel deliveries mainly going to shops and factories. Parcels would come  from various destinations to go to one shop or factory they got sorted at the depot and just 1 vehicle would deliver all of the parcels to the same place not 1vehicle for each parcel. 

We didnt have post codes, computers or mechanised sorting in the 1960s. Parcels took days and days to arrive and the whole operation was labour intensive.

Whilst providing more employment may be seen as a good thing, the costs of running such an inefficient system would be prohibitive today and the costs would be passed on to the customer.

There is no comparison between today’s methods and those of 60 years ago. Forget the past.

I suspect it was Royal Mail, only as well, forget Yodel, Herpes and all the rest of them👍

Sorry, but that was the way it read, at least to me. It is very difficult to appreciate where commentators are coming from on a forum like this where it isn't possible to read facial expressions to fully understand the points they are trying to make. We, ie this country, has added greatly to the way the whole world now operates, be it in industry, science, medicine etc but so have many other countries.   "No man is an island" 

Absolutely. Royal Mail was a nationalised industry totally under Govt control and part of the Civil Service while Amazon was somewhere explorers went in South America.😄

True no man is an Island but the UK certainly is. I think there’s not many who don’t know that the industrial revolution started here🤷🏻‍♂️

Agricultural Revolution came first. Britain learned how to feed itself, those who previously starved to death lived a bit longer, had tiny amounts to spend on better produced goods, which fuelled the innovation and technology that followed, the poor in the main stayed poor, a few got very rich indeed, luckily a few of the rich were Philanthropists, who cared about their workers, gave a bit back to humanity.

After that, things went downhill as Britain sought to dominate and colonise other bits of the World, other countries were pillaged for their natural resources, people in those countries often treat appallingly. Wars fought to sustain this position of global dominance.

Fast forward to today, lots of innovation, a few super rich who can’t spell Philanthropy, never mind understand it, far too many in poverty one way or another, we rely on other countries to provide far too much of our staple industries and food, a rotten electoral system, an out of touch, uncaring Government, and deeply divided (one way or another) society. We do have an aircraft carrier, but not sure if it has any planes yet, World class nail bars, prize money shufflers higher than Doctors and Nurses, and an Education system that isn’t quite sure what it’s trying to achieve.🤷‍♀️ We have a lot to be proud of, but at the moment, it’s hiding behind a lot of bad stuff☹️ And not very intelligent politicians, of all affiliations.

There is an interesting article in The Grocer about the demands for CO2 and how it is prioritised, at least fizzy drinks are lower in priority than nuclear coolant. I had some slightly fizzy cider recently but prefer it flat and without additives in general. Can we manage with less when it's needed in the NHS and other major providers?

I hate fizz in my beer, cider or tonic water etc, I always partially unscrew the cap on mixers so they can go flat in the fridge. Ditto bottled beer. What’s this obsession with fizz in drink? It’s generally the case that when a pub dispenses beer from a keg it sells out quickly and not just to blokes with beards!

Some wines make their own fizz, so I'm OK with that.