Royal Mail: Universal Postal Service
Debate between Lord Deben and Baroness D'Souza
The Lord Speaker (Baroness D'Souza)
I hesitate to interrupt the proceedings but I am having difficulty in following them due to the continuing conversations coming from the Benches on my left.
Lord Deben (Con)
Does my noble friend accept that those of us who live in the country are particularly at risk should there be any diminution in the strength of the universal postal service? However, could we not be encouraged to take on board the practice adopted on the continent and in America—namely, to situate post boxes at the end of driveways? That is environmentally very friendly and entails a huge cost saving.