Foreign firms should be banned from buying Royal Mail, the leader of the men and women who run Britain's 12,000 post offices has said.
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Telegraph on 23rd Jul 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Tory proposals put our local post offices and postal services are at risk. John Denham and Alan Whitehead have attacked the Coalition Government's plans to privatise the Royal Mail. These proposals would put the future of Southampton's post offices in jeopardy. Post offices cannot survive without a guarantee of the business that they get from Royal Mail. Mr Denham, MP for Southampton Itc...
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LabourMatters on 27th Nov 2010 (via labourmatters.com)
Royal Mail was making hundreds of millions of pounds in profits while it shut 2500 post offices last year.
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Telegraph on 21st Jan 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The government has been accused of dithering over a decision to leave the Royal Mail in charge of a bank account used by four million pensioners and other benefit claimants - a judgment that could seal the fate of up to 3,000 post offices. An announcement on the future of the Post Office Card Account had been expected earlier this year but Royal Mail postmasters suspect Whitehall is preparing to h...
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Guardian on 10th Nov 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
THE government should introduce safeguards to protect post offices before privatising Royal Mail, a Commons committee has claimed.
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Scotsman on 30th Dec 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
“Isn't the public going to be a little confused if Cameron et al vote in favour of part-privatising the Royal Mail when they've been banging on for months about saving the post offices?”Letters from a Tory. I have heard this argument so many times, but it suffers a fatal flaw. Out of the 19,000 or so Post Offices in the UK, only 500 or so are run by the state. The rest are already privatised. ...
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WestBromBlog on 24th Feb 2009 (via westbromblog.blogspot.com)
Half of all post offices could close if the Royal Mail is stripped of a vital Government benefits contract a senior Labour MP has claimed.
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Telegraph on 7th Nov 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
4,000 Post Offices have already closed under Labour – that's a quarter of the country's Post Office network. A Further 2,500 Post Offices are expected to close by 2009. As few as 4,000 of Britain's 14,300 Post Offices may survive the decade. This all means fewer Post Offices, providing fewer services to fewer people.The Plaid’s action plan to save our Post Offices Give s...
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AndrewNutt on 21st Aug 2008 (via andrewnutt.blogspot.com)
A groundbreaking "people's bank", offering a full range of financial services and using the UK network of 12,000 post offices, is being promoted by Peter Mandelson, the business secretary. The plan to use the remaining post office outlets as the backbone of a new national bank would head off a Labour revolt over Royal Mail privatisation and provide the country with a fiscal impetus. Last nigh...
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Guardian on 1st Feb 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
The fate of 3,000 post offices hangs in the balance amid fears that Royal Mail is to lose a vital £200million Government contract. Royal Mail has been fighting to retain the right to run the Post Office card account - which processes millions of pension and benefit payments - for the next five years. But informed sources say that the contract is likely to be awarded to rival bidder PayPoint,...
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 ...
