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Category: Welsh (Cymraeg)

Post Office Corporate and ignoring Scotland

The UK Post Office serves Scotland (and Northern Ireland) as well as England and Wales — which makes this literal choice of flags for languages quite inappropriate for users from those countries:

Post Office UK

(H/T to @aledpowell for noticing this one)

Posted on October 5, 2014Author adminCategories English, Welsh (Cymraeg)5 Comments on Post Office Corporate and ignoring Scotland
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