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- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:06:43 +0100
Sorry, I was in a slightly bad mood.
The post office and Royal Mail thing here is slightly complicated
but the last time I heard, the situation was that anyone could
deliver letters (as of 2001; previously, only the Post Office
Group could deliver letters
weighing less than 350grammes/costing less than Â1 to post), but
only the Post Office Group (Royal Mail) was prepared to do that
given the conditions attached by the govt, i.e., all households
must be given the same service at the same price.
Blair usually handles little obstacles like that by paying
private companies to
take something on (notably British Rail; but also private medical
clinics are paid for operations, at a higher cost than the NHS,
whether they actually do them or not); currently he's "only"
cutting post offices. And yes, given the role post offices have
played here, 4 miles is too far away.
Judy
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From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 10:07 PM
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> Judy wrote,
>
> >
> > typical; I wonder whether that will happen in the postal
service
> > here; people are fighting to keep post offices open
> >
>
> What do we know about the history of privatization in the UK
and
> Germany? I ask because, on one hypothesis, what you are
encountering
> is the muddle that naturally follows when a former monopoly
suddenly
> faces competition. Over time things may straighten out.
>
> The hypothesis seems plausible to me because, during recent
trips to
> the U.S. I have noticed that the U.S. Postal service has
improved
> dramatically from this customer's perspective.
>
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