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Royal Mail privatisation
Topic Started: Oct 10 2013, 10:17 PM (320 Views)
TrunksinSwimmingTrunks
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Formerly known as daman

So it's happened. Royal Mail in the UK has now been privatised (52% private).
Personally I don't at all and just see it as the destruction of another public service by the current government (education and health service are the other two I can see are being eroded). David Cameron claims this will allow Royal Mail to compete better....honestly I don't see the point of that when there are already several other private companies available for consumers (DHL, Fedex, USPS etc). Royal Mail was basically the failsafe affordable company but now that's going to be gone. For example a private company wouldn't want to provide a service to rural areas since it's not very profitable for them to deliver to remote small communities so either those rural areas will be cut off or they'll be charged high rates which are difficult to afford. With Royal Mail though there'd always be an affordable option available since Royal Mail's service wasn't just based on making maximum profits like the private companies aim to do. Another example of what I mean is that while a private company like DHL might deliver faster than Royal Mail, this comes at an increased price. If paying a higher price isn't really feasible for you then Royal Mail provides the cheaper alternative you need.

With Royal Mail's privatisation I'm expecting that prices will go up for many, but the other negative thing I'm expecting to happen is that a lot of jobs are going to go since as mentioned above there are some deliveries that Royal Mail currently does that aren't very profitable (like delivering to rural areas) so if those services are reduced a loss of jobs is expected. Royal Mail itself has anticipated job losses following privatisation, hence strikes happened even though Royal Mail workers are automatically getting some shares from the privatisation - obviously getting some shares can't balance out losing your job.

Do you think was the right thing to do? Do you think it will last or maybe the next government will just reverse it?
Should this be in Deep Discussion instead? Idk that section seems sorta pretentious, but it's not spam anyway so be serious.
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Make the old spam section viewable plz



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