It's back to work with a bang after a pleasant festive break. I hear the postal service is all bunged up at the moment and has been for the last couple of weeks so I expect that will slow everything down as we all get back in to full swing.
The postal service is something we take for granted and it’s only when it doesn’t work that we realise how much we rely on it. I’m a fan of Royal Mail most of the time, but I do think businesses need to protect themselves from the breakdown in communications that interruptions in the postal service can cause. I also think that in certain circumstances it is quicker, more convenient, more reliable and better for record keeping using email. Certainly I believe this is the case with conveyancing where there is a lot of documentation passing between various parties and keeping a handle on i...
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