Royal Mail sell off...

[scose-no-doubt]

Guess we can look forward to sky high postage prices, letters being lost by cheap immigrant workers and extra slow delivery.

*see British rail networks for more information

Not really sure whether this is being doen to help with cash flow or for idealistic reasons. One thing for certain though, HMRC going almost completely online will take a hell of a lot of business away from them.

Just thinking out loud.

 

[oiltanker]

no john lewis model then.

no other state puts strategic interests out to foreign buyers. you won't find russia or china privatising utilities. rather they buy ours. more market fundamentalism that has proved catastrophic for the uk.

for fun people should watch the european gas price chart and then listen to the lame excuses as to why the bills go up and then don't come back down in the same way. the regulator isn't working for the benefit of the public.

 

[Trader333]

Guess we can look forward to sky high postage prices, letters being lost by cheap immigrant workers and extra slow delivery

Well that did not happen with the sell of of BT and allowed telecomms to become highly competitive which it would not have achieved if left under state ownership and call costs are cheaper now than they ever were under the state.

That said I agree that selling off our energy suppliers was and continues to be a mistake but that is because the UK should have gone down the same route as the French and Russians in my view.


Paul

 

[0007]

With growth of the digital economy, Post Office per se becomes less and less relevant - just look at their declining volumes. Plenty of carriers to do deliveries.

Just need to sort out RMT / Bob Crow now.

 

[scose-no-doubt]

Well that did not happen with the sell of of BT and allowed telecomms to become highly competitive which it would not have achieved if left under state ownership and call costs are cheaper now than they ever were under the state.

That said I agree that selling off our energy suppliers was and continues to be a mistake but that is because the UK should have gone down the same route as the French and Russians in my view.


Paul

Possibly but I think that the exponential explosion in communications technology abroad would have pushed down prices/made a competitive market anyway.

 

[scose-no-doubt]

With growth of the digital economy, Post Office per se becomes less and less relevant - just look at their declining volumes. Plenty of carriers to do deliveries.

Just need to sort out RMT / Bob Crow now.

Thats only for post. What about carriage etc?

Is the government unaware that UPS FedEx and the like are operating in this country?

Post office is now the closest thing to a bank that many people have.

terrible idea selling it off IMO

 

[rawrschach]

well cheap immigrants actually do work. unlike, y'know, british people.

 

[0007]

Thats only for post. What about carriage etc?

Is the government unaware that UPS FedEx and the like are operating in this country?

Post office is now the closest thing to a bank that many people have.

terrible idea selling it off IMO

I actually meant carriage. A lot of stuff I order now comes by non-Post Office carrier: I can only assume companies reckon they are better - no problem for me as customer.

Didn't we used to have a "people's bank" - the old Giro Bank? [flogged to Alliance & Leicester then flogged to Santander]