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General => The Stay Safe Board => Topic started by: BumbleB on Friday 15 January 21 18:01 GMT (UK)
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At last, restrictions on incoming personnel.
Let's hope it also applies to those leaving! :-\
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55681861
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But why not just close the airports?!
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Doh - that might be a bit too easy! :-\
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But why not just close the airports?!
Because then the aeroplanes would have nowhere to land.
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Quoting from a BBC article (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-55659926):
The Home Office said the committee behind the inquiry was "incorrect in their assertions".
It said keeping borders open helped businesses to maintain international connections, boosted the economy and meant people could still travel for essential reasons.
My emphasis! ;D
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A lot of our fruit and veg comes by cargo 747. International post comes into Langley (next to Heathrow). A million letters and parcels go through Langley Customs and Excise, every day.
Regards
Chas
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A million letters and parcels go through Langley Customs and Excise, every day.
Regards
Chas
A decade ago I sent a birthday card to one of my grandsons, whose birthday was in three weeks time and who lived on one of the Dutch Colonies in the Caribbearn.
I was told at the Post Office that it would take a week to arrive. I handed over £11+ and as the clerk had said I could track the card I logged in daily to the PO website. The first mention of it arriving anywhere was the south coast of England one week later. It was still languishing on the English coast a further seven days later. Grandson didn't receive his card in time for his birthday - it was the first and last time I sent him a card by snailmail.
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A million letters and parcels go through Langley Customs and Excise, every day.
Regards
Chas
A decade ago I sent a birthday card to one of my grandsons, whose birthday was in three weeks time and who lived on one of the Dutch Colonies in the Caribbearn.
I was told at the Post Office that it would take a week to arrive. I handed over £11+ and as the clerk had said I could track the card I logged in daily to the PO website. The first mention of it arriving anywhere was the south coast of England one week later. It was still languishing on the English coast a further seven days later. Grandson didn't receive his card in time for his birthday - it was the first and last time I sent him a card by snailmail.
A bit off topic but similar as time taken to travel long distances across the world
I bought a little 2 month old KIA ex-demo city car £2500 below full price in 2017 - To cut a long story short a small bus pulled out as I was passing it, the full near side of the car was damaged that needed a new door that had the car vin plate on it. The repair shop was a local car dealer for Ford who ordered a new plate from South Korea, telling me it would take 28 days, this was in February 2018, being illegal really to use the car without it, I traded it in at the dealership another car and in December 2018 a lady from the Ford repair shop office told me the Vin plate had arrived and after informing her I had sold the car to their garage - She asked me what should she do with the Vin plate. ask your boss I said. ;D
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"it was the first and last time I sent him a card by snailmail."
Rena, I have an instance where the exact opposite happened. Mind you this is back in the seventies when both Britain and Sweden had postal systems that worked.
My then future father in law sent a letter to his daughter (now my wife) who was an au-pair in north London. He posted the letter in his home town near Stockholm on a Friday afternoon and the letter was delivered the following morning postmarked 4.30pm.
Has to be a world record for international mail.
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Halt Travelling Abroad Full-Stop
There are some variants, being reported as linked to Covid-19 outside of the UK.
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A Negative Test might be no good either?
Argonne National Laboratory
https://www.anl.gov/article/hide-and-seek-understanding-how-covid19-evades-detection-in-a-human-cell
How SARS-CoV-2 Hides Its mRNA
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6512/70.8
Please don't stop incoming quarantined freight, some are waiting for Tests being sent by International Delivery.
Mark
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/55687722