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Lyons550 Bromley Today 11.06am
Quote Forest Hillbilly at 15 Apr 2013 8.14am heard on Radio5 this morning that the Tories are due to Sell Royal Mail by April next year. It is valued at ?2B, which puts it just inside the FTSE top 100. Rumours are it is to be sold cheap. I wonder if RM will still have a monopoly after this time, or will the Tories open the market to competition ? Large swathes of the postal market have been open to competition for years. t's just that companies such as UPS and DHL have cherry picked the elements they wanted to compete in. Letter delivery is a loss maker as far as they are concerned. This has been on the cards for years. When i was a manager there some 8yrs back Labour were preparing for this very scenario anyway, after having bled it dry for the previous 4yrs or so. The Post Office brand actually had (when i was there) 10+ different business units from Counters, International to Parcelforce and then Royal Mail itself. I'll be interested to see what they let go and choose to keep. In the past Parcelforce would've been the prime candidate to offload...but it's now the shining light of the corporation ironically due to the internet and Amazon. ? The Voice of Reason In An Otherwise Mediocre World
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Hoof Hearted Bristol (ex Carshalton) Today 11.15am
Quote Lyons550 at 15 Apr 2013 11.06am Quote Forest Hillbilly at 15 Apr 2013 8.14am heard on Radio5 this morning that the Tories are due to Sell Royal Mail by April next year. It is valued at ?2B, which puts it just inside the FTSE top 100. Rumours are it is to be sold cheap. I wonder if RM will still have a monopoly after this time, or will the Tories open the market to competition ? Large swathes of the postal market have been open to competition for years. t's just that companies such as UPS and DHL have cherry picked the elements they wanted to compete in. Letter delivery is a loss maker as far as they are concerned. This has been on the cards for years. When i was a manager there some 8yrs back Labour were preparing for this very scenario anyway, after having bled it dry for the previous 4yrs or so. The Post Office brand actually had (when i was there) 10+ different business units from Counters, International to Parcelforce and then Royal Mail itself. I'll be interested to see what they let go and choose to keep. In the past Parcelforce would've been the prime candidate to offload...but it's now the shining light of the corporation ironically due to the internet and Amazon. I concur. I came I saw I concurred! ? Who killed Jel? It's a murder mystery!
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Kermit8 Hevon Today 10.16pm
Quote Jimenez at 15 Apr 2013 10.10pm Letters & postcards are finished everyone sends E-Mails or uses other social media. I actually can't remember the last time I bought a stamp. For all my shipping I use either FEDEX or UPS... So why are the queues always so bloody long at the PO? Edited by Kermit8 (15 Apr 2013 10.16pm) ? Quizzlestick [Link]
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Jimenez Online SELHURSTPARKCHESTER,DA BRONX Today 10.21pm
Quote Kermit8 at 15 Apr 2013 10.16pm Quote Jimenez at 15 Apr 2013 10.10pm Letters & postcards are finished everyone sends E-Mails or uses other social media. I actually can't remember the last time I bought a stamp. For all my shipping I use either FEDEX or UPS... So why are the queues always so bloody long at the PO? Edited by Kermit8 (15 Apr 2013 10.16pm) Lazy Scumbags queuing up for their dole money ? Don't mess with The Chislehurst Massive.
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matt_himself Park Hill Today 10.26pm
Quote nickgusset at 15 Apr 2013 9.29pm Quote Kermit8 at 15 Apr 2013 9.23pm Market forces will dictate that by 2020 we will have tp pay ?100 to buy a stamp. Fair enough. If you are against the sell off but buy a stamp after it has happened you are a hypocritical cund. Apparently. Aaaah, the reasoned words of the Chislehurst Martyr. You'll have plenty to time to contemplate the Royal Mail sell off whilst sipping a nice Sancerre at the local branch of Strada with all your other quasi militant chums, whilst not quite being able to strike to assist the workers, because that might affect your chances of becoming Deputy Head of the a primary School you work at, which will get you away from the nightmare of having to teach finger painting to 5 year olds on a daily basis. My view on the matter: it is strange why Royal Mail is struggling whilst Deutsche Post is thriving. Could there be an endemic reason for this? ? "Are you a sponge or a stone", Smokey, Penrith, September 1969.
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