What a
PR disaster!
There's much well-founded disenchantment on this forum about the apparent lack of visible/vocal public support for Britain's armed forces. Now, a well intentioned public demonstration of support is being turned off by the MOD in what sounds like a fairly blunt manner.
Of course, no one wants well-intentioned pressies from well-wishers to stop our military getting family mail or (god forbid) essential supplies; but couldn't someone at the MOD have worked with some of the support organisations or even corporate sponsorship to provide a channel which enables this much needed demonstration of support to carry on without causing logistical problems.
And no, saying "donate to armed forces charities", does not suffice. That's always been an option but clearly a significant number of people want to do something they feel is beneficial to the people on the front line(s).
