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Red letter day for postal deliveries

Pile of Mail on the Floor
One reader is worried about Saturday mail deliveries. Photograph: moodboard/Getty Images/Image Source

On Saturday, for the first time in many a day, I had post delivered – seven items, from Leeds, Gwent, Bexley, Bristol, Sunderland, Bournemouth and Dudley. None had an ordinary stamp but C9 codes, indicating they were only handled by Royal Mail at the final stage. All the correspondence had different dates in September – why did they all arrive on the same day? If there is a plan to stop second-class Saturday deliveries, I can envisage my letters never being delivered.
Jan Jeffries
Brewood, Staffordshire

• Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, says that he would “really worry about how we would protect vulnerable people” in relation to the assisted dying vote (Cabinet set for split over support for England and Wales assisted dying bill, 4 October). I wonder if his concern extends to those affected by the withdrawal of the winter fuel payment.
Helene Grygar
Bampton, Oxfordshire

• Thank you, Barney Ronay, for the best journalism I’ve read for a long time (Euston, you have a problem: train travel to football and the basic futility of hope, 5 October). Takes a proper journalist to make me laugh, cry and be really, really angry all at the same time.
Clive Pearson
Glenelg, Scottish Highlands

• If the Tories are serious about change, James Cleverly should be the next leader. He would be the first Tory leader with a beard since Lord Salisbury resigned in 1902.
Keith Flett
Tottenham, London

• The photo of the mass for the “global” synod in the Vatican had, sadly, not a woman in sight (Twenty photographs of the week, 4 October).
Maureen Henry
Glasgow

• Do you have a photograph you’d like to share with Guardian readers? If so, please click here to upload it. A selection will be published in our Readers’ best photographs galleries and in the print edition on Saturdays.

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