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17-10-2013, 08:56 AM | #126 | ||
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How so?
They don't have anywhere near the market share they would have been guaranteed when nationalised. So as a business, they would have had to massively increase costs to keep turning bigger profits. I don't think I know anyone these days, that actually has a BT phone line. |
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17-10-2013, 09:11 AM | #127 | |||
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Puts hand up, I have as part of my broadband package.
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17-10-2013, 09:25 AM | #128 | ||
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Isn't that Ireland though?
You've only just progressed from plastic cups on the end of string. One step at a time, Cherie. |
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17-10-2013, 10:20 AM | #129 | |||
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Although I live in England. Now they have acquired some Sports rights and giving it away free with their broadband BT should improve their market share. I'm a pesky immigrant
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17-10-2013, 10:31 AM | #130 | ||
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17-10-2013, 10:35 AM | #131 | |||
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18-10-2013, 12:19 AM | #132 | |||
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Talking of mobiles does anyone remember BT cellnet?.... which became O2?
How rich would the country be BT was still nationalised during the buyout?... Answer, very!
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18-10-2013, 02:13 PM | #133 | |||
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Something inoffensive
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27-11-2013, 09:20 AM | #134 | |||
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Royal Mail Reports Ł283m First Half Profits
[Rising parcel revenue and cost cuts help the postal service almost double operating profits following its flotation.] http://news.sky.com/story/1174262/ro...t-half-profits See Joey |
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27-11-2013, 10:58 AM | #135 | |||
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great news
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17-10-2017, 12:36 PM | #136 | |||
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18-10-2017, 06:43 AM | #137 | |||
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The royal mail has improved a lot this past 3 yrs..loving the sunday opening.
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18-10-2017, 09:49 AM | #138 | |||
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You don't work for it obviously, sending a small parcel went overnight from Ł2.70 to Ł5.65 are you loving that too?
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18-10-2017, 10:11 AM | #139 | |||
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Thats still a fair price tbh.
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18-10-2017, 10:16 AM | #140 | ||
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18-10-2017, 11:23 AM | #141 | |||
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Can you provide any evidence for that statement?
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18-10-2017, 12:03 PM | #142 | ||
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Who uses Royal Mail these days anyway? I can't remember the last time I sent an actual letter and the only letters I get in the post are bills and spam. Mostly spam since most places offer paperless billing these days too .
As for parcels, we order loads online, but I'd say less than 1 in 10 comes with Royal Mail. Big places have their own couriers these days and smaller places use other couriers. Also if sending something... why would anyone trek to the post office when you can use other couriers that are cheaper, and will collect from your door? I think it'll become an outdated service in the next decade or so tbh... the government DID sell it off far too cheaply, but I don't think there's much point re-aquiring it now. The private shareholders have a few more years to cream profits from it before it starts losing money and becomes defunct, I'd say. It's not even "a shame", really, paper mail is MASSIVELY wasteful. |
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18-10-2017, 12:19 PM | #143 | |||
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18-10-2017, 12:24 PM | #144 | ||
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Well if you would read the whole post, Kizzy.
Paper mail in general is (rightly) being phased out, and parcel delivery is transitioning to other couriers who are more convenient and constantly improving. Like I said there are big profits for these people to cream off still, especially with their price hikes, and I did also say it was sold off for dodgy reasons on the cheap, however it will begin to stagnate in the next decade or two with online services using their own courier services and everything else going digital. My point was that there's very little point buying it back now. Waste of money. Feels like it would be more "point scoring" than anything else. |
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18-10-2017, 03:20 PM | #145 | |||
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I did read the whole post, Who said anything about re acquiring it?... It should never have been sold in the first instance is my point, if other companies can do it much cheaper and still be in profit what makes you think that royal mail will run out of steam?
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18-10-2017, 03:49 PM | #146 | |||
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Does that include the now privatized sections of the NHS?
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