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What role would other firms do?

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What role would other firms do?

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If the dreaded privatisation ever happens what would the other firm do collections? HGV? I can't see delivery work taken up
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swoosta wrote:If the dreaded privatisation ever happens what would the other firm do collections? HGV? I can't see delivery work taken up
Make a big profit at the nation's expense. :sad:
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Probably everything,apart from delivering the stuff.
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Yep ,delivery is unavoidably labour intensive ,therefore difficult and profit poor. But if you split an integrated service and apportion costs arbitrarily ( as RM have done previously) ,then you can massacre terms and conditions in delivery by saying they should be able to complete for 0.35p per item :chuckle
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Theres alot of posties who think *if* privatisation happens you'll be wearing TNT shirts and outside firms will be running and owning buildings etc. This is not how privatisation works.

Its quite simple.

The Govt swap or sell a peice of RM (believed to be 33%) to a private INVESTOR. In return they get management rights and sit on the Company board making decisions. No buildings or Mail Centres will be hived-off to TNT, none of that nonsense. Day to Day you will not see much difference, except strategically, some of the half-wit RM managers will have to take orders from the new management. Which might not be a bad thing.

Dont get me wrong I am totally against any form of privatisation.