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Originally Posted by Livia

If you've ever visited a sorting office to retrieve a bit of undelivered mail, it'll tell you all you need to know about why the Royal Mail has been killed off by the very people whose jobs depend on it. The service is just awful and getting worse by the day. I still don't get my post at work until late in the afternoon, and sometimes it's not delivered at all and we get two lots the next afternoon. I know a couple of people who work for Royal Mail, and they'll tell you quite openly that they do the bare minimum then go home. It's not sustainable.

Oh, I forgot to mention the Ch4 documentary earlier this year, about private mail companies. Didn't see it, just the promotion with the bored staff kicking the mail about.

If a business is desirous enough to want to be owned and is sold to a hedge fund or whatever vampire sucking profiteers, then it should be making money for the taxpayer and providing decent self-respecting jobs to people.