Delivery
When I was a boy, the following things were delivered to our house - bottles of milk, sacks of coal, the daily newspaper and every two weeks or so bottles of pop from the Law's pop lorry - pop being what Americans call soda. Nowadays it's different. Just about everything is delivered to our homes - from clothes to refrigerators. Here in England vast Amazon warehouses have been constructed close to motorways and delivery vans cruise up and down every street in our kingdom. Amazon alone have more than a thousand delivery fans in Britain and that fleet is forever expanding. For various reasons, the most complained about delivery service in this country was a company called Hermes. They have reinvented themselves and changed their name to EVRI and it was this company that brought a parcel to our door this morning. Unusually it was for me as a few days ago I ordered a new pair of sandals from the Clarks Outlet store. Barefooted, I came to the door in my dressing gown. The d...