In message <66ge531o165vqa0jc1tdfdj8qndccprahb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Ken Butler
<ken@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:45:07 +0100, Geep <Geep@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Glad you asked?
>
>Ecstatic. I mean, it's im****tant to know this kind of thing.
>
>So does that mean that Scottish post offices close on Scottish bank
>holidays, or on some other list of days of their own devising?
You really, really don't want a straightforward answer, do you? All POs
in Scotland take some days simultaneously, but not all. We, up until
last year, took Ballater 'local holidays' whereas Royal Mail take
Aberdeen local holidays because, if they didn't, the posties would be
available for work but would have nothing to do, because no-one would
bring them mail from Aberdeen, on an Aberdeen holiday. The disadvantage
of that system was that I would have to get up for RM duties even when
the PO was closed and, on other days, the PO would be open, but the post
wouldn't go anywhere. Now, I take Aberdeen, not Ballater, local
holidays. Other parts of Scotland take their own local holidays. Local
holidays are not related to bank holidays, except the obvious ones, like
25th and 26th December, although they are probably not local holidays.
>
>Ken, who discovered that Reykjavik buses run on Icelandic bank holidays,
>just not early in the morning.
>
First bus from Ballater to Aberdeen is 05.30, including local holidays,
and probably bank holidays too. Dunno about Sunday, because Sunday is a
day of rest - or, at least, a day of not getting up quite that early.
--
Geep, the wheels on the bus go round and round girl
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