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Posted by Trust No One on 04/04/07 13:16
"kim" <ntscuser@aol.com> wrote in message
news:LqGdndhhDeMqvY3bRVnyvAA@giganews.com...
> Don't know if this is an April Fool prank or not but I've been told that
> as of tomorrow, 2nd April, along with increases in other postal charges,
> the minimum Royal Mail fee for collecting customs and VAT is doubled from
> 4 to 8.
>
I'm sure I heard about this elsewhere.
If so Royal Mail are doing a "Gordon Brown". Brown has started the very
nasty and worryingly fashionable habit of the peremptory doubling of certain
taxes (Air passenger duty anyone?)
Let's hope Ken Livingstone doesn't decide to do a "Gordon Brown" with his
congestion charge brain child :)
--
Peter <X-Files fan>
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