Letter: Towns that really deliver the goods

Sir: Your correspondent Orna Bird (5 October), who longed for a trustworthy delivery service to replace the usual supermarket routine, would have no problem in Canterbury. For the past 15 months, just such a service has been available here, with deliveries made at a fixed charge and at any time convenient to the customer, from an extensive catalogue containing almost every household need.

Apart from the obvious advantage to the elderly or housebound, it is a godsend for people like me with unpredictable professional commitments, and it also helps the local economy by using local produce (eg, meat and milk of high quality from identifiable sources) as well as goods from large wholesalers.

Why are there so few enterprises like this in Great Britain?

Yours faithfully,

JOAN HARRISON

Canterbury

6 October