BBC Three Tweets throws a little shade across the Atlantic with these two images - left are the throngs at Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration in front of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, and right is the crowd that lined the road leading up to Windsor Castle waiting for the newlyweds, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Government departments going postal
No wonder government-owned NZ Post is languishing for lack of business when at least one large arm of government, the Ministry of Justice, is resorting to a privately-owned mail delivery service. A Herald reader filled out a jury service response form - under threat of being fined up to $1000 for failing to do so - and found he couldn't return the document through an NZ Post box in the next street. He phoned and was told the ministry used DX Mail rather than Post as the former offered a "dedicated business service". "But what about ordinary people just wanting to fulfil their civic duty?" our reader fumed, as he headed to the closest DX collection box, more than 2km away.
