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I back Royal Mail
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From stories about the postal strikers in Oxford over the years, it is clear that they and their promoters have no respect for the people who daily rely on the post.

The sooner they close the Oxford Mail Centre at Cowley, the better.

If the strikers want better wages, they should change jobs, go to Downing Street, and lobby the Prime Minister, not take their grief out on people who cannot live without the post.
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I back Royal Mail in its modernisation plans.

BRANDON WELLS Oxford

7:30pm Sunday 14th October 2007
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Posted by: Karen Ward, Yorkshire on today
I am fed up of people saying "if you don't like it get another job". I did have another job for 20 years as an electrical engineer but I got made redundant when they moved to Poland. Soon there will be nothing left in this country to fight for.
I am fed up of people saying "if you don't like it get another job".
I did have another job for 20 years as an electrical engineer but I got made redundant when they moved to Poland.

Soon there will be nothing left in this country to fight for.
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Posted by: Karen Ward on 1:39am today
As I see it, it is the Government and postcomm that are destroying Royal Mail. They opened up the mail system to competition, fair enough but is it a level playing field? If we think of Royal mail as 2 halves, the business mail and the domestic mail. The business mail is where the profit comes from and the domestic mail is where the losses come from. You try and get a courier company to take a letter across the country and it will be a hell of a lot more than 32p. So what do the likes of TNT and UK MAIL do? They concentrate on the business post and anything that costs them too much to deliver they get Royal mail posties to deliver at a loss.(brilliant postcomm) The likes of TNT and UK MAIL don’t want to deliver domestic mail because there is no profit in it and you will never see them walking the streets. Postcomm dictates what Royal mail can and can’t do and says it must deliver to every house in the UK for the same price. If postcomm lifted their restrictions, ROYAL MAIL could compete on a level playing field. But the consequence of that would be a loss of service, domestic mail prices would go up, and the further you want to post an item would cost more, a lot more. The question is should domestic mail be a service or a profit making business?
As I see it, it is the Government and postcomm that are destroying Royal Mail.
They opened up the mail system to competition, fair enough but is it a level playing field?

If we think of Royal mail as 2 halves, the business mail and the domestic mail.
The business mail is where the profit comes from and the domestic mail is where the losses come from.
You try and get a courier company to take a letter across the country and it will be a hell of a lot more than 32p.
So what do the likes of TNT and UK MAIL do?
They concentrate on the business post and anything that costs them too much to deliver they get Royal mail posties to deliver at a loss.(brilliant postcomm)

The likes of TNT and UK MAIL don’t want to deliver domestic mail because there is no profit in it and you will never see them walking the streets.
Postcomm dictates what Royal mail can and can’t do and says it must deliver to every house in the UK for the same price.

If postcomm lifted their restrictions, ROYAL MAIL could compete on a level playing field.
But the consequence of that would be a loss of service, domestic mail prices would go up, and the further you want to post an item would cost more, a lot more.
The question is should domestic mail be a service or a profit making business?
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Posted by: Martin, York on 5:02pm today
Another uninformed comment from a member of the public that we are trying to protect. Royal Mail is convinced that they must beat us into submission before they can plough ahead with sweeping changes. They put more value on the pieces of mail you are more likely to throw away without opening, than on something more personal that someone's taken the time to write and stick a 32p stamp on, no matter where in the UK it goes. Do you want a servic or not? Maybe you don't care what time your mail arrives, but many of the older retired people of this great nation are being ignored, and see another institution being destroyed. Why are their wishes not important? Your right to spout such drivel is only given by the sacrifices made by their generations anyway.
Another uninformed comment from a member of the public that we are trying to protect.

Royal Mail is convinced that they must beat us into submission before they can plough ahead with sweeping changes. They put more value on the pieces of mail you are more likely to throw away without opening, than on something more personal that someone's taken the time to write and stick a 32p stamp on, no matter where in the UK it goes. Do you want a servic or not?
Maybe you don't care what time your mail arrives, but many of the older retired people of this great nation are being ignored, and see another institution being destroyed. Why are their wishes not important? Your right to spout such drivel is only given by the sacrifices made by their generations anyway.


Very good second comment.