..Something to seriously think about...1. The Post OfficeGet ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble...that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.2. The CheckBritain is already laying the groundwork to do away with check by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a. I had an apartment with a roof terrace so I could sit or lie in the sun instead of going to the beach. the second day there I met the 'neighbours', they were two women, Anne and Yvonne, they were in their late fifties from Harrogate, they had won money on the bingo so decided to go on holiday away from the rainy weather (and their husbands) in the u.k. I said hello and had the usual small talk. over the next couple of days I kept bumping into them coming and going to the bar. One day at. .." Her brow furrowed as she tried to find a place in her scheming for that crucial bit of information."If she'd wanted to mate with me, she would have found a female host." Perhaps the Riavean isn't as devious as my Lady," Ransom offered. "The Lord Admiral is lucky you're on his side." Work on the Marquis de Windham," I instructed Helena. "Find out what he's up to. Get together with Lord Chasse, the Interior Minister." Of course." Helena bowed her head, looking somewhat chastened now that her. " Okay, then two in each." I smiled, nervously gritting my teeth.Sharon rubbed my left earlobe with the antiseptic and marked two spots with her black felt tip.BANG! Went the piercing gun; Oww went the voice in my head, as a tear formed at the corner of my eye.BANG! A second piercing in my left ear, somehow not as painful as the first. Sharon then did the same with my left ear.The first time she used to gun on my right, it seemed to hurt more than the first on my left. A fourth bang and that.