Dear Spurtle
I was somewhat surprised to see that Royal Mail are currently operating a fleet of vans in Scotland which are sign-written in Welsh.
Following incidents in the 1950s that saw postboxes with the EIIR cypher being attacked by militant Scottish nationalists who objected
to the term Queen Elizabeth the Second on the basis that Scotland had never had a Queen Elizabeth the First, the then GPO undertook to use only ER in Scotland. Yet these Welsh vans clearly display EIIR.[img_assist|nid=1964|title=|desc=|link=node|align=right|width=200|height=200]
Perhaps times have changed and our nationalists no longer care about such things?
John Eoin Douglas
(Spey Terrace)