I wonder what people do when they have a Mon-Fri hectic jobs, but need to post something recorded or next day delivery items. Posting something which needs customised pricing is a night mare, if you have hardly anytime in your hand during the week. It leaves only option of Saturday posting. But only specialised post office branches are open on Saturday for few hours.

In the era of technology and Do It Yourself services, Post office do not offer self service posting facilities yet, it sounds a bit odd. You can do banking, shopping , buying train tickets and many other things using self services but you can’t post recorded delivery letters.

According to The National Federation of SubPostmasters,  services designed to boost incomes are failing to deliver. They also called on the Government to introduce “tangible new work” for post offices.

There are plenty of people out there those who are avoiding to use the Royal Mail services just for it has a time consuming method of working. Just to post a letter using the counter service you need to wait average 15 minutes. People do not have that amount of time in their hands anymore. Well, Royal Mail do have a service where people are able to print off the stamps off the net, but if anyone wants to have a next day delivery or recorded, still you need to queue up on a post office.

I wonder why the Royal Mail not introducing 24/7 self service postal machines? If Royal Mail been compared with other services, it seems it is so old fashioned.

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They are adding a slogans next to their brand name and sometimes changing the colour of their fonts. But is it enough to prove themselves as a green company?

Tesco introduces zero emission delivery fleet, which says “Blue on the outside, Green on the inside” , According to The Sunday Times 60 Best Green Companies, Tesco came fifteenth. Not bad for a company with a size like this.

i-TV gone green as well. During the commercial breaks they will show a big green button saying “i-TV”. So the viewers will think i-TV is a green company?

All of the energy companies are in a rat race to prove how green they are, as far as I remember it was the BP who initiated this trend. Even conservative party is trying to be green. Don’t you think all of these are nothing but PR activities fuelled by hypocrisy?

“nearly a year on from the banking crisis, has the government have any idea about how to stop it happening again?”

That is the question from bonus fueled city traders, bankers, the local corner shop owner as well as the all of the taxpayers in this country.

Although there was an amid speculation from the economists and analysts that the 2008 recession going to hit hard to UK economy and perhaps UK GDP set to fall more than 1990′s recession. But UK government took extra few months to acknowledge the presence of the recession in the country.  

However, the UK government and regularity authorities acted swiftly to resuscitate the economy. Government increased spending to revamp the money circulation. On the other hand, the FSA and the Bank of England have been drafting a strategy to tame the wild horse natured super size banks.

After the 1990′s dotcom bust, the city became extremely desirous towards the bonus culture than ever. The treasury was controlling the bankers by using  their “eyebrow controlling method” before the FSA era, there was no written rule of how to run a bank. But after the birth of FSA, the eyebrow controlling evaporated and FSA handbook become the control margin. Everyone is happy as long as you follow the banking rule bible produced by the FSA.

Now the 64 million dollar question, are the UK government and the financial regularity authorities doing enough to take us out from these crises? 

At the beginning of the recession volatility controlled the trading Market. FSA banned short selling for a short period, hoping the recession would end soon. Many people believed short selling was the main reason for the sharp falls of HBO’s share before Lloyds TSB rescued it.

UK government cut the VAT to make public to spend money instead of saving it, but is it good enough help the SMEs?

Bank of England slashed the interest rates to all time low, asked all of the high street banks to pass it on to the consumers, but still there is no definite sign of recovering from this crisis.

Marvyn King – Bank of England governor- declared that big banks with complex structure should be divided in two divisions. One will be operating by taking risk with little capital, the other would be dealing on the high street in good old fashion- ordinary banking. Banks have to have a healthy capital as a back up to allow the banks to absorb the losses should any arises in the future.

 The size of the banks and the capital are a vital factor to allow them to fail.  Already this “suggestion” been criticised by some analysts. They argued that the problem is not with the banks’ operational structure, it is something else. 

However, so far today the UK government and the regularity authorities significantly strengthen regulation supervision and governance to ensure the risk of failure is reduced from future crisis.

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Discuss…

There were various attempt to eliminate the pirates, but there were very little success. Perhaps it is something to do with the political situation of Somalia. Somalia doesn’t have an effective government since 1991. In fact the Pirates are treated like heroes [Somali version Robin hood?] in the sea shore areas.

So far the shipping companies handed over about $80 (£54) to the pirates and maybe more on the way. Maybe the Maritime Industry can think about a different approach to tackle this problem. The whole Somali Piracy issue reminds me one of the greatest western films ever made – Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid. Where the rail company had the similar problem with train robbers and loosing money to them. To tackle the robbers they sent an empty train with professional posse.

In the same manner maybe they can send an empty vessel with military equipped with armoured speedboats.

Mohamed Al-Fayed and negative media coverage in a decent level goes hand to hand since he had a feud with Roland ‘Tiny’ Rowland, the head of Lonrho, over buying House of Fraser in 1985. Since then he has been trying to establish himself into the British elite society, by seeking British Citizenship unsuccessfully, also by donating millions to British charities.

There is no doubt about Mohamed Al-Fayed’s generosity towards charities and organisations. According to his website he is associated with 12 various charities so far.
There are two individual news caught my eye in the last few months.

1.Mohamed Al-Fayed to pay medical bills for Alexandra Burke’s mum [December 2008]
2.Harrods boss gives Jade Goody £3,500 wedding dress [February 2009]

I am not going to argue over if they were good decision or he has done it for the sake of cheap publicity. The thing I realised is, there is a similarity in both cases. They both drew huge media attention and both got sympathy from the public in some level, and Al-Fayed successfully associated himself with both of them. The timings are vital too. After coming back to England from Switzerland in 2005 to live, he has achieved very little attention from media which includes an alleged sexual assault on an underaged girl.

In the mid nineties Al-Fayed was represented publicly by public relations expert Michael Cole, I wonder who is his PR agent now.

The way Al-Fayed is getting media attention, hopefully it will not hit him back in the same manner as Allen Stanford is experiencing.

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Heaven is….

Where the police are British,
The cooks are Italian,
The mechanics are German,
The lovers are French and
It’s all organised by the Swiss.

Hell is …

Where the police are German,
The cooks are British,
The Mechanics are French,
The lovers are Swiss and
It’s all organised by the Italians

I wonder what is the current version of the same joke after seeing Home Office declared that -

The new set of rules, under section 76 of the 2008 (Counter-Terrorism) Act and section 58A of the 2000 Act, will target anyone who ‘elicits or attempts to elicit information about [members of armed forces] … which is of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.

A person found guilty of this offence could be liable to imprisonment for up to 10 years, and to a fine.

In the mean time I found a video-

I wonder why BBC paying him millions for ? Top Gear can be better off without him. When I compare James May or the little one’s (give credit to Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson) solo shows to Top gear, I find shows without him are more digestive. I have to admit Clarkson’s young age shows were promising. But what happened to him for last few years ? Is it something to do he is in business for too long ? Ummm….maybe ! How about putting him in BCG matrix table?

Jeremy Clarkson BCG Matrix

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I ponder,  what was their motivation ? Was religion the only driving force ? Regardless  their motivation, it is a wake up call for South Asian region. This coherent and successful -given their motive is acquiring international media attention – attack will encourage the  other waiting to be troublemakers in these territories.

However, we can not cancel the possibility of having relationship among all of these groups based in the same part of the world.  

The next morning I was watching Keith Vaz’s (Member of British Parliament) interview with BBC. According to him, there is  highest level of security  in Hotel Taj Mahal. He compared the security level with airport security. But we can see whatever the security level was, it was not adequate enough to tackle those attackers. What can a few security guards can do against a group of militia army with automatic rifles/grenades and maybe with commando training?

How did they collect these weapons ? who supplied them ? It is an open secret in Pakistan that, terrorist groups get direct support from some corrupted and de-moralised ISI agents.

How about if it comes out that some RAW agents also associated with this atrocity ? Hang on, hang on, why would a RAW agent would allow them to carry on this ? Ummmm….. how about having $5 million deposited in a Swiss bank account just opened on your name ?

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