5 5.What is the main idea about this passage?

    A.The transport in London will be modern and perfect.

    B.The ODA is hoping people will use solar energy and hydro power.

    C.London will hold the most environmentally friendly Olympic Games.

    D.After the Games the energy will be used for businesses.

C

    Householders are being made to collect their own mail because postmen are not bothering (费力) to deliver parcels (包裹) and letters that must be signed for.Instead,they simply leave cards saying“Sorry you were out”without even ringing the doorbell to check.

Customers then have to collect their mail from their local Post Offiee.

    Consumer Watchdog Postwatch said it had received 150 complaints (投诉) from Royal Mail customers across Britain who received“Sorry you were out”notices when they were actually at home.

    Most parcels and all recorded delivery letters need to be signed for.But some postmen do not seem to want to wait for householders to answer a knock at the door.Others,employed (雇用)  as short-term workers.have been known only to deliver the cards.

    “We have had complaints that postmen are leaving these cards even when people are in,” a spokesman for Postwatch said.“And we have also had customers telling us that short-term postmen are not allowed to take signed-for mail to the door,so they had to drop these notices through the letterbox instead.It is completely unacceptable that this mail is not being delivered.The recorded mail service is more expensive and is meant to be a top quality(品质) delivery service,but this is not the case.”

    Musician Adrian Bradbury,38,complained to Postwatch after he received two cards through the letterbox at his South London home while he was there caring for his baby daughter.He ran after the postman,only to find he did not have the parcels with him.The postman told him that he was a short―term worker and said the parcels could be picked up from

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the post office.More than three weeks later,Mr.Bradbury has not had a chance to pick up his parcels.“I am so busy looking after the baby,”he said,“The parcels are probably presents for her.”

    The Royal Mail said it knew about the situation in Mr.Bradbury’s area and it was a way“to simplify(简化)things for new short-term workers that came in”.

The Communication Workers Union criticized (批评) the Royal Mail.“If the managers are encouraging this practice,the CWU condemns (谴责) it.For the Royal Mail to deliver the service customers deserve(应得),the company needs to spend money on properly trained and paid long―term workers.”

 

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