2006 the Royal Mail lost it's monopoly & other companies could vie for licences, now in 2011 the talk is of privatisation because as an entity the R.M. apppears to be losing out hand over fist. To start crying "crocodile tears" at this junction over the loss of such a traditional service & bleating about the nasty private investors is frankly quite nauseating.
As is the case with many publicly funded amenities, the mismanagement, wasteful attitudes & self serving ways of the hierarchy has brought this problem down upon their own heads. Had the management & unions invested half as much effort into streamlining, cutting waste & improving the service on offer as they have on seeing to their own personal gains & power bases it'd likely be a much different story.
Let's be realistic in all this, being all dewy eyed about the old romantic ideals of the Postie battling his way through storms & gales to get the mail through at all costs is a fantasy of a bygone age (when did you last use the postal service to send a letter ?). Especially now in this electronic age of texts, MSM, e-mails etc. people want their info now or even yesterday & aren't prepared to wait 3-4 Days for a letter anymore, plus pay over the odds for a vague promise of punctuality.
PS. this wasn't copied & pasted either, all my own work
take it as an example.
