{"id":440,"date":"2007-04-18T17:52:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T16:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=440"},"modified":"2007-04-18T17:52:54","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T16:52:54","slug":"one-year-at-postwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"One year at Postwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is exactly a year ago today that I started at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postwatch.co.uk\/\">Postwatch<\/a>, the consumer watchdog for postal services, where I am the Chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postwatch.co.uk\/regional\/region_generic.asp?id=6\">Greater London Region<\/a> and a member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postwatch.co.uk\/about\/council.asp\">the national Council<\/a>. Coincidentally I spent all today at Postwatch Headquarters, next to Victoria station in central London, where I chaired two meetings.<br \/>\nThe morning meeting was a Greater London Region workshop with local authority representatives. The main items discussed were the Government&#8217;s plans to have 2,500 post offices closed between summer 2007 and the end of 2008 and Royal Mail&#8217;s proposals to introduce zonal pricing for its bulk mail services. The afternoon meeting was with the Royal National Institute for the Blind and Talking Newspapers to review Royal Mail&#8217;s service for the blind and partially sighted.<br \/>\nThe Government is planning to merge Postwatch with Energywatch and the National Consumer Council, so I should just manage one more year at Postwatch before it disappears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is exactly a year ago today that I started at Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for postal services, where I am the Chairman of the Greater London Region and a member of the national Council. Coincidentally I spent all today at Postwatch Headquarters, next to Victoria station in central London, where I chaired two meetings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","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=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}