One of my monochrome single-panel cartoons is set at the Royal Mail head office, where the bosses are seated at a negotiating table opposite the Postal Workers Union representative.
One of the managers says: “We’ll email the new offer just to make sure you get it.”
This cartoon appeared in Eyebrow Magazine on 9th October 2007. The humour lies in the ironic twist – the Royal Mail, whose entire identity is built around delivering post, is here shown relying on email to guarantee something actually arrives.
It’s a clever little jab at both modern communication habits and the frustrations people sometimes feel about postal delays.
The gag works because it plays on a contrast everyone recognises: the long-standing image of the post as reliable, versus the growing preference for email as the “safer bet”.
By placing that observation in the high-stakes setting of a union negotiation, the cartoon exaggerates the joke in a way that’s sharp, memorable, and instantly clear to the reader.
Thanks for visiting! If you fancy another laugh, check out “Reading in the Library” or revisit an older gem, “Firework Display”. Both are part of my growing archive of everyday humour.
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