The Last Post?

At the beginning of the year the Government ended the 346 year postal monopoly held by Royal Mail, and already the first 'TNT' mail has dropped on my mat...

In the name of 'liberalisation' Postcomm are risking letting private sector entrants into the postal market 'cream-off' the best and most profitable parts of the sector such as intra city post, mass direct-mail and business post - leaving Royal Mail to pick up the cost of subsidising personal letters, rural deliveries etc etc - basically all those parts of the postal market which are never going to be profitable. In the long-run its not hard to how 'competition' could easily have a detrimental effect on our current universal postal service.

To mark the demise of the postal monopoly the CWU recently held a 'memorial service' outside Postcomms offices (see picture) - and you can get more information about the union's 'Your Mail, Not For Sale' campaign here, and EDM 548 here.