from the CWU Plans by the new coalition government to privatise Royal Mail have been slammed by the CWU as “regurgitated failed policies.” Despite the company’s strong financial performance and newly agreed three-year modernisation strategy, the government has unveiled proposals to split Post Office Limited from Royal Mail Group and privatise the UK’s postal service. ...
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SocialistUnity on 21st May 2010 (via socialistunity.com)
Business secretary promises to keep post office network entirely in public hands as part of plan to allow private company to take 30% stake in the Royal Mail Lord Mandelson today promised to keep the post office network entirely in public hands as he unveiled a series of concessions intended to increase support for his plans for partial privatisation of the Royal Mail. The business secretary made ...
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Guardian on 26th Feb 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
GOVERNMENT plans for the Royal Mail include moving the Post Office into mutual ownership.
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Scotsman on 18th Sep 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
Today, in its decision to allow the Post Office to continue the post office card account service, the Government recognised the role of local post offices in local economies, financial inclusion and community life. While this particular service may not be being provided on the most economically efficient basis (debatable), it is certainly the case that villages and high streets will be the more fu...
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PoliticsForPeople on 14th Nov 2008 (via politicsforpeople.blogspot.com)
As a retired senior Post Office manager with previous extensive experience of the private sector parcels industry, I am appalled at the mindset of this government and a number of its predecessors that private management is all good and public ownership inefficient and doomed to failure. This is a gross oversimplification. Much of the Post Office's problem has been caused by stringent service ...
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Guardian on 27th Feb 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
The future of the Post Office was called into question on Wednesday night, after MPs claimed it would be a "catastrophe" if it lost its link with the Royal Mail under privatisation plans.
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Telegraph on 12th Jan 2011 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The coalition Government has revived plans to part-privatise Royal Mail because of fears about the group's future financial welfare.
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Telegraph on 21st May 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Plans for the Post Office to start offering financial products and services are outlined by the government.
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BBCPolitics on 2nd Dec 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
The Post Office should be separated from the Royal Mail to give the business greater commercial freedom, the industry’s regulator suggested yesterday.
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TheHerald on 18th Nov 2008 (via theherald.co.uk)
by Neal Lawson of Compass. Lobby your MP now to support EDM 428 ‘ROYAL MAIL’ calling on government to abandon privatisation plans Following media reports over the Christmas/New Year period of our forthcoming campaign on the Post Office and Royal Mail, we’re today asking for your urgent help to get MPs to support EDM 428. We must urgently
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SocialistUnity on 14th Jan 2009 (via socialistunity.com)
Labour MP John Denham has warned that Government plans to privatise Royal Mail – which will be going before Parliament on Wednesday - could spell the end of the post office network. John Denham, Labour MP for Southampton Itchen, said: "In rushing through the privatisation of the Royal Mail, this Tory-led Government is giving no safeguards to our Post Office network. "These plans will result ...
