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Do not know if this has been posted here, but very interesting letter.

response to Dona Veluti's excellent letter on the current postal strike (Oxford Mail, July 4), many people do not realise that much of the bulk mail they receive from banks, utility companies, councils and the like, which are usually emblazoned with the name of private courier companies, is being processed and delivered by Royal Mail.

In the jargon of the industry, this is often euphemistically referred to as Royal Mail doing "the final mile".

Given that the mail centres sort such mail by postal region before transporting it to the delivery offices, I am at a loss to fathom what exactly the private competitors do to earn the lion's share of the postal charge.

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Under Postcomm's rules, the Royal Mail gets a mere 13p per item.

Much publicity was given in the financial sector of our media, for instance, to Royal Mail losing a multi-million-pound Amazon contract recently.

But under the terms set by the regulator, the private company which has won the contract will use the Royal Mail to do the donkey work at minimal cost.

The Communication Workers' Union has long sought a judicial review to bring an end to this absurdity.

But alas, the likes of chairman Allan Leighton and chief executive Adam Crozier saw this access agreement as a precursor to privatisation, and yet more lucrative executive bonuses, and so committed the organisation to a form of commercial suicide.

If the public do not want Royal Mail to go the same way as so many of our post offices (and living in a rural area, I know the importance of that network to people), they need to get behind the union's fight to save our post.

The alternative, after all, is a much diminished postal service which will be a burden on the taxpayer, and only those private companies who cherry-pick the profitable mail stand to benefit from such an outcome.

ALAN FISHER, Witney Road, Finstock

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Do not know if this has been posted here, but very interesting letter.

response to Dona Veluti's excellent letter on the current postal strike (Oxford Mail, July 4), many people do not realise that much of the bulk mail they receive from banks, utility companies, councils and the like, which are usually emblazoned with the name of private courier companies, is being processed and delivered by Royal Mail.

In the jargon of the industry, this is often euphemistically referred to as Royal Mail doing "the final mile".

Given that the mail centres sort such mail by postal region before transporting it to the delivery offices, I am at a loss to fathom what exactly the private competitors do to earn the lion's share of the postal charge.

advertisement
Under Postcomm's rules, the Royal Mail gets a mere 13p per item.

Much publicity was given in the financial sector of our media, for instance, to Royal Mail losing a multi-million-pound Amazon contract recently.

But under the terms set by the regulator, the private company which has won the contract will use the Royal Mail to do the donkey work at minimal cost.

The Communication Workers' Union has long sought a judicial review to bring an end to this absurdity.

But alas, the likes of chairman Allan Leighton and chief executive Adam Crozier saw this access agreement as a precursor to privatisation, and yet more lucrative executive bonuses, and so committed the organisation to a form of commercial suicide.

If the public do not want Royal Mail to go the same way as so many of our post offices (and living in a rural area, I know the importance of that network to people), they need to get behind the union's fight to save our post.

The alternative, after all, is a much diminished postal service which will be a burden on the taxpayer, and only those private companies who cherry-pick the profitable mail stand to benefit from such an outcome.

ALAN FISHER, Witney Road, Finstock

Aparently Amazon couldn't wait forever for a better deal.On H***F*** the Lamebrain clones say they did fight Postcon , but I'm inclined to go with the Union , it's just RM rebuttal. A failed privatisation bid is suspected , deliberately running down RM. Postcon are failed free market Tories , thier "ideology" is to hamper RM to force it to be more efficent. Even AL's clones say Postcon has been naive. You can draw your own conclusions from all the inconsistencies, contradictions, ambiguous, vague, ingenuous statements they are told to make. :lfo