End the Royal Mail privatisation experiment now

[TrueBlueTerrier]

[Trumanity]

That horse has well and truly bolted...

[scotchy1962]

I am afraid that there's probably no way back now, we all know that letters will eventually become defunct and that parcels are the future.
In a ideal world letters would be kept on in some form, but the costs associated with that would make it so expensive that it might be cheaper to send it in a box.
Perhaps the time has come to regulate properly all the parcel carriers and make them accountable for all aspects of their service and attempt to get the workers out of the "gig" economy so they all earn above minimum wage.
To many cowboys in this game and they need taken to task.

[postslippete]

Agreed

Nobody in government wants to spend billions buying back a service that they have spent years running into the ground! This isn't about who owns RM but the fact that the entire delivery market is in one big race to the bottom. RM are trying to fund a 6 day USO while competing with courier companies who pay gig wages, dump parcels on doorsteps and have zero standards to follow.

If RM has strict obligations to follow - then every other parcel courier should as well otherwise nothing will change whether it's public or private. Unless every courier is regulated properly then all we are really doing is arguing over who drives the bus while the road is collapsing underneath it.

[britwrit]

Agreed

Nobody in government wants to spend billions buying back a service that they have spent years running into the ground! This isn't about who owns RM but the fact that the entire delivery market is in one big race to the bottom. RM are trying to fund a 6 day USO while competing with courier companies who pay gig wages, dump parcels on doorsteps and have zero standards to follow.

If RM has strict obligations to follow - then every other parcel courier should as well otherwise nothing will change whether it's public or private. Unless every courier is regulated properly then all we are really doing is arguing over who drives the bus while the road is collapsing underneath it.

It could be sold as an idea - in theory - to retailers as a cheap delivery service of last resort... combined with the relative efficiency of the United States Postal Service. It would have to be an improvement on what they face now at Christmas.