[user104658]

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I think it'll become an outdated service in the next decade or so tbh...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.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

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I think it'll become an outdated service in the next decade or so tbh...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.

If nobody is using it where did the profits come from?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

If nobody is using it where did the profits come from?

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.

[Kizzy]

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?