WHEN they go on sale I shall be the first to buy some Margaret Thatcher stamps.

I will do so to indicate my opposition to the Royal Mail privatisation that she did not get round to, but specifically ruled out on a matter of principle.

The Queen’s head, the Crown and the Royal Cypher ought no longer to be on anything to do with the Royal Mail, now that it is a private company.

That company ought no longer to be called Royal, either.

Local Conservative Associations and Tory voters could take up those losses with their MPs.

Mrs Thatcher understood that. It is a pity that she never understood how bound up the public ownership of the railways and the utilities also was with national sovereignty and the Union. But just for once, she was right.

David Lindsay, Lanchester.