Letters: Mail's answer to postboxes problem far from first class

Edinburgh's postal services are about to further deteriorate. Posters have appeared on the postboxes outside the former Brunswick Road sorting office advertising the fact that, because Royal Mail has sold the site, all posting facilities there will be removed from the end of November.

That's understandable, but it is the lack of arrangements that have been made to replace them and the later posting facilities that they provide that are of concern to local people and the business community.

For customers who are not able to travel out to Cultins Road, it seems that the latest posting time from central Edinburgh will now be 7.15pm in Frederick Street (currently 7.30pm at Brunswick Road).

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And business users who frank their mail with a meter are directed to Constitution Street with last uplift at 6.30pm instead of the existing 7pm at Brunswick Road.

Would it really be too much trouble to provide a new box for franked mail alongside the existing pillar box in Elm Row and relieve these boxes at the current Brunswick Road times?

At the very least, Royal Mail should change to those currently existing at Brunswick Road the collection times at one site in Central Edinburgh provided with both types of boxes.

John Hein, Montgomery Street, Edinburgh

The quiet life after charity shutdown

THE closure of the Roxy Art House (News, November 3) has already made a phenomenal difference to Roxburgh Place and noise reduction in this residential area is noticeable.

It is unfortunate that the Edinburgh University Settlement charity wound up with debts and loss of jobs and the three Fringe venues are being put up for sale (The Roxy, The Forest and the GRV). I feel for the people who have lost their jobs.

The Roxy Art House is a licensed premises and I only hope that residents would be considered and consulted with regards to future ventures to ensure that noise and impact on residents does not ever occur again.

I hope that the beautiful building I live opposite houses a more appropriate venture for being centred in a residential area. Can anyone reassure residents that this venue does not become the 'noise trap' I and others have suffered since the beginning of 2009?

Marion Hands, Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh

Let's do England favour it wants

TREVOR Swistchew points to Ed Miliband saying UK taxpayers dug deep to bail out the Scottish economy, and that the independence argument was a non-starter (Interactive, November 6).

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I am getting heart sick of English MPs bleating about how much Scotland is bailed out by the UK.

Even if this were true, and English MPs are fed up of it, then why their stoic resistance to Scotland going it alone, away from the machinations of a Westminster which has done everything but cover itself in glory over recent times – both in the management of the UK in general, or the regions in particular? It's no accident that the other partners in the UK are also expressing their desire for self-determination.

So, let's do England a favour, let's rise to their challenge, debate the issue and hold the plebiscite, and let's control our own resources such as coal, oil, gas, fishing, finance, tourism, manufacturing, agriculture, and do it to benefit Scots.

If this means more taxes in the short term to get us up and running, wouldn't the investment be worthwhile if only to put Ed Miliband's gas at a peep?

Jim Taylor, The Murrays Brae, Edinburgh

Seeing red over fire engine waste

WOULD you buy a car without asking for a test run? Yet some "high heidyin" bought two 450,000 fire engines that cannot negotiate a roundabout (News, October 29).

The answer? Offer them to Glasgow and Edinburgh airports as emergency fire tenders. There are no roundabouts on the runways.

Now, if we can only think of a way to get rid of this tramway that nobody wants.

John Kay, The Spinney, Edinburgh

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