SIR – Re: Worcester News, Monday, September 21.
I do feel for people using the Royal Mail, as there were some good letters sent in [on the delays to deliveries in the Warndon area].
I did a few puzzles in a well-known magazine and was informed by post I was first out of the hat and had completed seven puzzles correctly, winning £250 which was despatched on Thursday, August 27, from Market Harborough, first class.
The cheque came through my door on Saturday, September 19 at 11am. 
I don’t know if it’s fate, but Westbury Street sorting office was rated A1 and did a brilliant job, which meant we had a good first-class postal service. Now we have to play the waiting game, I know we have a scrappy delivery service but must we pay first-class mail for second-class post?
If we moan too much no doubt there will be another postal strike for more pay.
MR L PRESLEY
Bransford

Help them out – but at your own cost
SIR – If all these so called do-gooders wish to take in all these refugees into their own homes, well let them, but at their own cost and not a single penny or any help from the government in any way or form at all.
Life is hard enough as it is – and where are all these so called do-gooders when people in this country need them most?
Haven’t these do-gooders forgotten that it’s a lot of money for one or two people to live, let alone a family of four or more, what with the prices of food and whatever going up all the time but never coming down.
It seems to me that these do-gooders are out to line their own pockets and rip off the country. What some would say get rich quick. When will the government wake up and see what is going on?
MR J P SHERIDAN
Worcester

Photographs needed from HMS Hood
SIR – On May 24 1941 HMS Hood the most iconic and loved ships of the British Navy was lost after a brief engagement with the German battleship Bismarck. Her loss and that of 1415 men of her crew touched the nation at that most perilous of times. 
I am sure many of your readers will have noted the recent recovery of the ship’s bell which after restoration will go on display for future generations to take enormous pride in . The members of the HMS Hood Association are seeking to present in May 2016 1000 photographs of the ship’s crew. 
We currently have 898 and are striving to achieve our goal . If any of your readers can help in this endeavour we would be incredibly appreciative if they could establish contact. Maybe family or friends were crew members and their photographs remain part of private collections. 
JAMES STANLEY
Worcester
jamesstanley401@btinternet.com

Sauce has some inferior imitators
SIR – I was very interested in reading your article on the Worcester Sauce factory and the possibility that the local factory will be the only one to call it by its proper name, as pasties in Cornwall are, only the Cornish producers can call them Cornish.
I have been puzzled in watching cookery programmes in America, where they use large quantities of what they call Worcestershire Sauce. I can now understand that the original bottle is genuine, but what they use in America is of an inferior quality sauce, possibly produced in the far eastern countries in two pint cans or even larger amounts.
MR N M DUNKLEY
Worcester

What about our own homeless people?
SIR – The argument for and against Syrian refugees coming here continues.
MP Robin Walker supports it, but they won’t be housed in his neighbourhood for sure.
Mr Walker made no mention of Worcestershire’s homeless hoping for a roof over their heads, nor of food bank users with nothing left to eat in their cupboards.
We are not hard-hearted people, but this is a Middle East problem, not a British one.
MR & MRS G BAYLISS 
Great Malvern

Showing solidarity with the Ukraine
SIR – I was interested to read recently in a book by Michael Moore of the alleged connection between the US government and the Nazis as well as members of the Bin Laden family who also sit on the boards of several of the largest American companies. At the time of 9/11 the administration assisted these people to safer locations whilst pledging to hunt down the terrorists supposedly responsible.
I plan to hear the Ukranian Boyan Ensemble at Malvern Priory not least as an act of solidarity with the Putin-oppressed Ukrainian people.
WENDY HANDS
Upton-upon-Severn


VAT is an enormous rip off for all of us
SIR – I bought a coffee on a train recently and the price was £2.30. I had a vat receipt which stated that I had paid 38 pence in VAT. When will this government stop ripping us off?
NIGEL CRISP
Malvern