There is one thing I have not read or heard about – the importance of the post office in weighing parcels, packages and, nowadays, letters.
Since they have imposed hefty penalties for incorrect postage, we have to be careful of the size and weight of what we are sending.
I have an elderly aunt living down south and I usually send her a thick letter containing paper cuttings and photocopies of e-mails from our relative in Australia.
If I were not careful about the correct postage, my aunt would be penalised at her end, with £1.06 or more extra.
Also, from where can heavy parcels be sent off?
Shops can issue just stamps, but no other important things, such as postal orders – which most people who do not have bank accounts will purchase – and many other things not available in shops.
Mrs R Robb
Delany Drive
Freckleton

Remember health theme
YOU quote Coun John Coombes as stating that the Fylde had 182 per cent overprovision of swimming facilities
(Express, April 3).
This seems to me to reveal a total misunderstanding on his behalf as to why it is necessary to retain a small percentage of that figure as public facility.
It is simply down to the ability of those less well off in the community to be able to pay.
There are two important, well established facts in this debate: The lower down the income scale, the less healthy and the shorter the life expectancy there is; exercise is a necessary component of achieving physical and mental health.
Not all local residents can afford to pay the fees asked by the private health clubs and hotels.
Families on low income, especially with the current economical downturn, simply cannot afford to join private facilities.
The Island and swimming pool site are on the site of the former splendid open air pool on the promenade. This is where the pool should stay.
Plans to replace them with two hotels, indoor 10 pin bowling and five cinema screens are totally at odds with the concept of what a seaside town of St Annes' calibre is all about.
Sitting in the dark in a stuffy cinema, consuming sweets, chocolate and crisps on the promenade is exactly contradictory to the healthy theme which has attracted people to St Annes over the past 150 years.
If the developers want to help the town out, plan the cinema, 10 pin bowling and hotels away from the prom.
Improve the existing swimming and beach facilities and, by all means, add a winter garden, but please do not demolish the pool and degrade the Island site more than it is already.
Dr Martyn T Lucking
Headroomgate Road
Lytham St Annes.

Baths should be part of tax
WHILE council leaders branded the swimming baths poll a waste of time and money (Express, May 1), l think this was a perfectly good example of democracy in action.
Coun Coombes should follow the example of the Prime Minister, who, when he made a bad decision on the 10p tax rate, did a complete U-turn.
The swimming baths should be kept open until there are definite plans to replace them.
Leisure facilities should be part of our council tax and should not be used as a political football.
If all services were based on the policy of closing them down if they didn't make a profit, the town hall would have been closed down many years ago.
While we hear prospects of a new swimming baths being built, we all know what happened to the promises of a new Ashton Theatre being replaced when the old one burned down many decades ago.
For this council to consider spending millions on a new town hall while we keep losing more facilities beggars belief.
R Carradice
St George's Square
St Annes

Get set for Fruity fun
I AM writing to let your readers know it is not too late to get involved in this year's Fruity Friday on May 16.
Fruity Friday is World Cancer Research Fund's annual event that helps us raise awareness about the health benefits of eating fruit and vegetables. As well as being a fun way to get across an important message, it also helps to raise vital funds that help us continue with our research and education programmes.
It is a great chance to support a worthy cause. So whether you want to organise a fruity breakfast or sell fruity snacks, there are lots ways you can get involved.
For more information, call 020 7343 4205 or visit www.fruityfriday.org
Teresa Nightingale
Head of Fundraising
World Cancer Research Fund

Facilities are stretched
I'M certainly not for all this new housing ('The Fight is On', Express, April 17).
There are far too many houses now.
The new development will disturb Lytham. It is disturbing Lytham now.
The whole community is affected.
Facilities are being stretched as it is: doctors, schools, roads.
My husband and I are quite concerned.
The land that is being built on is worrying, as well. It's disturbing to see that land like that is being built on.
Mrs Mary Eccles
Lytham

Density will be too high
I THINK the density at the far end of the development is definitely too high ('The Fight is On', Express, April 17). That's going to be a problem.
The block of flats that is being built close to the development shouldn't really be there either. It's overlooking people, and that just isn't necessary.
There's not enough control over developers now.
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