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September 21, 2004

Postal insanity

Well, it's official: the Royal Mail is to be destroyed. Its "monopoly" is to be taken away from it for its "abysmal" performance since the Whitehall Wankers started setting "targets". According to the official announcement we can all expect an instant improvement in 15 months time when private contractors are permitted to take on the delivery of mail.

Yeah, like the improvement in rail travel. British Rail had been underfunded and deprived of investment for years by the Treasury - who then came up with the famous wheeze of "let's break it up and sell off the services to private enterprise. That will improve services!" Yeah, like you couldn't buy a single ticket across the network without paying a massive premium. Like we still can't get a reasonable ticket price and the service? Well, you may get a train. On the other hand, you may not get where you wanted to be by the time you needed to be there, either!

Improved postal services? Not bloody likely - higher prices, fewer deliveries, and more junk mail maybe, but not a better service this side of Hell freezing over. Certainly not with Whitehall's Clowns writing the rules.

Posted by The Gray Monk at September 21, 2004 10:02 AM