Could Postman Pat get a lie-in every day now?

"Almost two-thirds of homes and businesses will not receive their daily post delivery until the afternoon under plans being considered by Royal Mail.
The proposal, outlined in a consultation paper, could mean the end of the morning post for millions of customers.
Currently, 94.4 per cent of homes and businesses receive their mail before noon, with some deliveries arriving as early as 7am.
But under the new plan, no one would receive anything before 10.30am and 60 per cent would have to wait until after midday." (The Telegraph)

Royal Mail appear to be on a crusade to destroy the art of the written letter. They already want to cancel Saturday deliveries, and now don't want to have to have all the day's post delivered until mid afternoon! This is reprehensible. Even though they are under no legal obligation to deliver all letters until noon, having early morning deliveries keep the postal system alive. Morning deliveries means that important documentation can be received and an entire working days effort put into it.

The plan is to have no deliveries before 10.30am, 10% by 11am, another 10% by 11.30, and 20% more delivered by noon - with the other 60% not delivered until 2.15pm! If they do get to do this, then one thing is certain - stamp prices must come down to match to decrease in the quality of service.

If most post is not to be delivered until past 2pm, then I can see little future for much post. The internet will take over most of the postal traffic, and the entire postal system will die. It is possible to argue that the internet is already hollowing out the postal business, I'm sure, but a significant amount of stuff still travels through it - and if Royal Mail cannot show themselves capable of managing even that properly, the amount that is posted will only decline.

What would Postman Pat say?

UPDATE: In the comments Harry Hook has re-written the intro to Postman Pat:

Postman Pat, Postman Pat,
Postman Pat and the Euro Diktat,
Early in the morning,
That’s just so boring,
3pm and the post is still in his van.

Brilliant!

Source: The Telegraph