{"id":1246,"date":"2008-12-15T08:16:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T07:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2008-12-15T08:16:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T07:16:17","slug":"post-early-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"Post early for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my two and a half years on the Postwatch Council, I did no less than 66 media interviews. I&#8217;m now on the Board of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfocus.org.uk\/en\/content\/cms\/home\/home.aspx\">Consumer Focus<\/a> &#8211; which took over Postwatch at the beginning of October &#8211; and this morning I did my first media interview for them.<br \/>\nIt was a live interview at 7.20 am with BBC Radio London and it was about Royal Mail&#8217;s quality of service at Christmas time. Generally the quality is good considering the huge increases in volumes, but first class quality of service falls so much that &#8211; unless your item is really urgent (which is not the case for Christmas cards) &#8211; you might as well use second class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my two and a half years on the Postwatch Council, I did no less than 66 media interviews. I&#8217;m now on the Board of Consumer Focus &#8211; which took over Postwatch at the beginning of October &#8211; and this morning I did my first media interview for them. It was a live interview at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}