Not exactly the torrent of unsolicited compliments on our new, improved printing that I so keenly foretold last week, but a trickle of views on the matter, not least from James Cross of, I brilliantly deduce, Wapping.

“In your last column you stated that the plug has been pulled on the Wapping presses. As someone who lives overlooking the press hall I have been looking forward to this day for many months. However, while life is now significantly quieter, I notice the lights are still on and overnight there’s still the quieter hum emanating from the building that I used to hear after a print run. Do you know when local residents will finally get the peace they’ve been looking forward to?”

There’s no printing going on now, but the office lights will be on until all the editorial and advertising departments also ship out to new offices elsewhere in London, probably a few years away still. And then presumably it will all be bulldozed and become a construction site. Sorry, Mr Cross.

Susan Rowson, of Tunbridge Wells, was happier: “I felt compelled to congratulate you on the visual quality of the paper on Monday. The colour photos are fantastic, particularly the trio of George Bush. Now you just need to stop the print rubbing off on my hands.” Ah; there’s always a catch.

And Brian Parker, of Dartmouth, e-mailed: “Those of us who are nervous about change, however commendable — and the new print quality of The Times is indeed that — will be reassured that the Letters page is still black on white.”

Finally, a couple under the heading You Can Please Some Of The People All Of The Time, Etc. On the one hand, Laurie Faulkner, of Leicestershire, wrote: “Perhaps it’s also time to reflect on the decision to move from broadsheet to tabloid format. The tabloid form is suited to a free newspaper with perhaps 15-20 pages, but is completely unsuitable for a paper like The Times which regularly has 100 or so pages.”

On the other hand, Terry Slater wrote: “What a missed opportunity, that in the move from Wapping to Broxbourne The Sunday Times wasn’t downsized from its aching-arms-stretched size to tabloid.”

Compact, gentlemen, please, not tabloid — although the matter of reducing the bulk of the main section remains under review.

— The first editions off the new presses looked pretty smart to me, apart from a gremlin that transposed two fashion captions in times2 on Monday, although to my knowledge only one reader remarked upon it, which goes to show that the rest of you don’t know your Tara Jarmon poppy-print dress and Gap linen jacket from your Betty Jackson silk top and Banana Republic skirt.

— A rash of, in your view, redundant prepositions of late. Godfrey Dann of East Grinstead spotted and deplores “meet with” and “consulted with”; Derby reader Rene Dobson’s blood pressure rose when she saw “for free”; Michael Davison wrote again from Surrey to tell us off for “all of” instead of simply “all”; and Bill White e-mailed from Buckinghamshire about a headline “Prime Minister seeking special relationship . . . but he may lose out to the Pope”.

I beg to differ slightly on the last. “Lose” implies a battle that the Pope won; the Americanism “lose out” implies more subtly that the PM had merely been deprived of a fair chance.

— Monday’s Times carried a news spread on postal voting worries, illustrated by photos of a dozen red British postboxes bearing the insignia of assorted sovereigns. Two readers promptly commented on a notable absence.

Lord Wright of Richmond wrote: “So far as I can see, none of the postboxes portrayed dates from 1936. During the brief reign of Edward VIII, a total of 271 letter boxes were manufactured. In the early part of his reign, letter boxes were made with the obsolete cipher of Edward VII. After the abdication, those that had later been made with the cipher of Edward VIII (incorrectly topped by a crown) were, in many cases, unobtrusively replaced with boxes showing the cipher of George VI. I understand that about 130 boxes still bearing the cipher of Edward VIII remain in place throughout Britain and Northern Ireland” — 17 of them in London, he adds.

And as if in answer, Christine Trigger wrote from Devon: “A rare postbox erected during the short reign of Edward VIII can be seen in Exeter.”

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