Also the small print in this Budget announcement indicates the payment is to be used as a battering ram to force older people to claim Council Tax benefits.

People who then receive the guarantee of Pension Credit and are eligible for Council Tax benefit, will not receive this payment. This will affect over two million older people.

It is a crazy way of helping Gordon Brown disperse the £870m unclaimed Council Tax benefits. — Jack Stewart, Perth & Kinross Pensioners Forum.

The reader, who got his or her mail at 6pm, probably had it delivered by a person who is employed by an agency.

These people do not start until 8am and some hardly speak or read English.

This does not mean they don’t work hard, but they are not properly trained.

As for the bonus it was subject to tax and National Insurance so posties got nowhere near £1000.

Most postmen are hard working, up at 4am for a 5am start, out in all weathers and do their jobs to as high a standard as they can.

So don’t lay the blame at their feet, but at the feet of Royal Mail who introduced the new working practices. — Angry.

I READ with interest the letters regarding postmen/women from Disgruntled and Infuriated.

The Royal Mail has had to move with the times with one single daily delivery between 9am and 1pm.

There is no excuse for an 8 or 9pm delivery, but there has been a shortage of staff.

People can go to their local delivery office with ID and collect their mail at 8.30am so Infuriated could collect his or her Recorded Delivery then.

As for posties getting a £1000 bonus (there is another on the way) I class this complaint as jealousy.

Posties deserve the credit for the work they have put in and earned the extra.

Whether it’s hail, rain, snow or sunshine you will always get your mail.

Don’t blame your postie. They are only doing their job and, in my opinion, doing it well. — Postie Lover.

I REPLY to the letters from Disgruntled and Infuriated who complained about posties.

My husband is a postie. He is up at 3.30 in the morning and starts work at five.

He delivers the mail in all weathers and does a good job.

It is not the posties’ fault that mail is being delivered later than usual. That is the fault of Royal Mail management.

Does Infuriated really believe that posties want to deliver mail at six in the evening?

Most posties were happy with the way things used to be but the new system is what Royal Mail calls progress.

So don’t moan about posties. Complain about the people who came up with this system. — Hard Working Postie’s Wife.

Young kids are using the streets in Dryburgh, and other areas of Dundee, irresponsibly and illegally because there is no place to enjoy their vehicles.

Imagine how much police time would be saved if there was somewhere allocated for the use of mini motos.

The council won’t help because of the insurance liabilities. Anyone who can help or who wants to campaign please contact me on www.dundeeminimotos.741.com or lh010b0838@blueyonder.co.uk — Raymond Campbell, Charleston, Dundee.

I am a young man who wears fashionable clothes, and hooded tops are fashionable. The vast majority who wear them don’t have the urge to cause trouble.

Kids out to cause bother in shopping centres are easy to spot and should be dealt with accordingly. But to suggest all hooded top wearers are troublemakers is absurd. — Innocent.

I had already phoned Dundee City Council to suggest perhaps Gowrie Court and Hillside Court be made into sheltered flats.

They are near public transport, shops and Ninewells Hospital. — Mrs J. Brokman, Ninewells Court, Dundee.

They are a credit to young people. They are helpful, polite and nothing is too much trouble. — Mr and Mrs Fox, Constitution Street, Dundee.