Coal
Sir, —I thought I had made myself perfectly clear in my letter, but for the benefit of “Moody Moo” I will simplify it still further. The complaints about coal have been (1) that it cost £lO a ton; and (2) that the quality was below standard. I said that my coal cost me £8 16s a ton, and that the quality was satisfactory. As I have been paying fuel bills for 30 years (in three different countries) I am probably as reasonable a judge of the subject as your correspondent, and I reiterate my suggestion that she should change her coal merchant instead of writing anonymous letters to the press urging some authority or other to -avenge her
wrongs. There are few more purifying effects on commercial morals than a loss of profits, and dissatisfied customers should bring this lesson home to the offenders.—Yours, etc.. I. TREW. June 14, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29232, 16 June 1960, Page 3
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151Coal Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29232, 16 June 1960, Page 3
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