Tree Preservation Order

[Uncle Gizmo]

Our local council has imposed a blanket tree preservation order on the greenham area of Newbury.

As a resident of this area I have received numerous copies, copy after copy of 10 page long letters, some address to me directly, some addressed to the occupier and some addressed to former occupiers! It's a worring amount of paper!

I think if we got rid of the council and the bureaucratic wanton generation, in duplicate, triplicate, quadruplet directives, society would probably have to come up with some way of dealing with an over abundance of trees!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Send them a letter using a brand of printer paper that is based on recycled materials and make that exact point to them.

 

[Isaac]

Our local council has imposed a blanket tree preservation order on the greenham area of Newbury.

As a resident of this area I have received numerous copies, copy after copy of 10 page long letters, some address to me directly, some addressed to the occupier and some addressed to former occupiers! It's a worring amount of paper!

I think if we got rid of the council and the bureaucratic wanton generation, in duplicate, triplicate, quadruplet directives, society would probably have to come up with some way of dealing with an over abundance of trees!

That's really funny.

My wife (from Mexico) has always marveled over the years at the extraordinary, sheer amounts of paper mail in the postal service. Just pounds and pounds and pounds of mail - 90% totally unwanted and unsolicited, the remaining 10% is perhaps 95% completely unnecessary. I..E "Thanks for changing your password 2 weeks ago" and such drivel. Her mom will get perhaps 3 pieces of mail per month. (Although admittedly, people don't trust their postal service as much so that plays in to it too).

It's insane, but you're right about bureaucracy. That's exactly where over-regulation by big government leads. Mountains of red tape, with dubious results.