Solar-powered QR reading postboxes being rolled out across UK
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#2>"The firm [Royal Mail], bought by a Czech billionaire in December..."
I've no words. We're just playthings in a billionaire world.
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#3>"The firm [Royal Mail], bought by a Czech billionaire in December..." I've no words. We're just playthings in a billionaire world.
That's the UK in a nutshell this past decade. Privatise all of the public services for a quick buck, and slowly but surely the service decays whilst the prices for consumers increases. The trains in the UK are a great example of this.
Re: Solar-powered QR reading postboxes being rolled out across UK
#4>"The firm [Royal Mail], bought by a Czech billionaire in December..." I've no words. We're just playthings in a billionaire world.
That's the UK in a nutshell this past decade. Privatise all of the public services for a quick buck, and slowly but surely the service decays whilst the prices for consumers increases. The trains in the UK are a great example of this.
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That's the UK in a nutshell this past decade. Privatise all of the public services for a quick buck, and slowly but surely the service decays whilst the prices for consumers increases. The trains in the UK are a great example of this.
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Citation definitely needed for this one.
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#6>"The firm [Royal Mail], bought by a Czech billionaire in December..." I've no words. We're just playthings in a billionaire world.
It was a public good for 499 years. Crazy.
Křetínský is well known in France. He's less right wing than the other billionaires buying médias, such as Bolloré.
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Citation definitely needed for this one.
> Following the 2010 general election, the new Business Secretary in the coalition government, Vince Cable, asked Richard Hooper CBE to expand on his previous report, to account for EU Directive 2008/6/EC which called for the postal sector to be fully open to competition by 31 December 2012. Based on the updated Hooper Review, the government passed the Postal Services Act 2011. The act allowed for up to 90% of Royal Mail to be privatised, with at least 10% of shares to be held by Royal Mail employees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail which links to https://web.archive.org/web/20150224033637/http://stakeholde... (the EU directive has gone from their website and isn't in archive.org) which says
> Summary of legal position: Article 7 of the EU Postal Directive (Financing of universal services), has required the progressive – and since 1 January 2013, total - liberalisation of postal services throughout the EU.
Hopefully this qualifies as a valid citation.
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Citation definitely needed for this one.
jacobp100 is referring to:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2008/6/oj/eng
They did not force the privatisation of Royal Mail; it was first made a special sort of PLC back in 2000 so that it could access private money, and arguably that helped accelerate the EU belief that postal services needed competition.
But they did force competition in EU postal delivery, and that effectively drove the decision to essentially fully privatise Royal Mail so it could compete.
It also had a very unfortunate outbreak of Crozier Disease and that didn't help.
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#9>"The firm [Royal Mail], bought by a Czech billionaire in December..." I've no words. We're just playthings in a billionaire world.
Here's more about the guy, and his plans for RM:
Re: Solar-powered QR reading postboxes being rolled out across UK
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the UK in a nutshell this past decade. Privatise all of the public services for a quick buck, and slowly but surely the service decays whilst the prices for consumers increases. The trains in the UK are a great example of this.
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If this is the case, why are many other EU postal services still state-owned (e.g. Ireland, Poland, Cyprus, Greece)? The UK left the EU 5 years ago yet it’s still being used as cover for UK political decisions.