So despite the head honcho still being paid hundreds of thousands, NZ Post is deleting another of its postal services (FastPost). A letter from Mount Maunganui to Tauranga takes up to five days with NZ Post as it goes to Auckland to be ‘sorted'.

DX Mail usually saves the day with an overnight delivery at $1 a stamp. However, I was caught out sending a DX-mailed cheque from the Mount to a Tauranga bank during Xmas. When, after 12 days the cheque hadn't arrived at the Tauranga bank I asked DX to check on the delivery. I was then advised that DX ‘closed down over Xmas' and the mail was handed over to NZ Post to deliver. One can't win can one?

A Baker, Morrinsville.