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Royal Mail insists it will keep fining innocent victims of counterfeit stamps
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They were willing till prosecute, jail, and drive their postmasters to suicide, what's a $5 fine?
That was the Post Office. Not Royal Mail.
Ah, my bad. And yet they managed to be equally shit.
Theres a difference? The uk has two public postal services?
Post office basically sells stamps and hands stuff over to Royal Mail who delivers them.
They are separate entities, they have been since Royal Mail was privatised. Post Office Limited runs the offices where postal and other services are provided/sold, including those of Royal Mail. Royal Mail Limited runs the postal service which moves and delivers the letters and parcels.
What a completely unnecessary division of labour and commerce.
Privatisation sucks.
I'm not sure I agree with this statement.
Our post office allows you to post packages with several different postal networks, including Royal Mail and Evri.
By decoupling the shop from the network, they can now do more without the conflict of interest from Royal Mail.
I wouldn't say having a shop front is a conflict of interest and postal agents exist as is so I only see it as removing a piece of a public utility in favour of privatisation.
Generally speaking, privatising public infrastrucure causes issues and added expense for consumers, less stable jobs and removes the benefit of the public investment.
I wasn't referring to the privatisation, you said
The labour overlap of a parcel network and a storefront are completely different.
It didnt need to be privatised, but separating the two isnt a bad thing.