[Jerome Betts]

Now email has taken much of its business, Royal Mail encourages use of pillar-boxes and wall-boxes as supplementary litter-bins.

If parking on double yellow lines it is polite to tip traffic-wardens with the traditional phrase, 'Nelson touch, squire'.

Young people wearing hoods should be greeted with a piece of customary Cockney banter 'Going bald, then?'

Although London pigeons technically belong to Prince Charles he is happy for tourists to catch them and have them cooked in nearby restaurants.