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I'd like to punch this idiot!

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Yet another ill informed C.CK :arrrghhh
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He is ill informed and if he isn't an 'idoit', he is certainly a twat.

Postal sector liberalisation in the EU has been a disaster. It was an initiative based on the dogma that competition is always good. It was hoped that opening up the postal sector to competition would lower prices and make it more efficient. Even Maggie Thatcher didn't want to privatise Royal Mail. The postal service is a service that ensures delivery to every door. It makes sense to allow national postal services to use the profitable parts of the business to fund the service parts and if this provides a lot of decent jobs with good terms and conditions, what is the problem?

The aims of liberalisation have not been achieved. EU countries now have a more expensive and inefficient postal service. Only an idiot, or idoit, can believe that competition solves all. Some countries, like Finland, have got round the EU rules by making competitors have to provide the Universal Service Obligation. We should also do this and then RM could benefit from the boom in internet shopping. The whole EU thing was flawed from the start because each country's postal service started from different points. It is mainly DHL and TNT that are benefitting. Liberalising the postal sector has been a stupid and costly political experiment.
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I think it is a good idea, Rm is 30 years behind real companies and needs competition in order to wake up.
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Locker Dave wrote:I think it is a good idea, Rm is 30 years behind real companies and needs competition in order to wake up.

The guy in question is a self confessed Libertarian.
He believes the only way to test a business model is to throw it in the deep end and see if it swims.
What he doesn't realise is that private companies only want profitable parts of any service.
So you would end up paying a tenner to send your granny in Inverness a birthday card.
These people prefer there to be no regulation of any markets.
This is exactly the same capitalist model that brought the banks to their knees not so long ago. :hmmmm
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fellas a tube, who the f**k is he anyways?
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fishtank wrote: The guy in question is a self confessed Libertarian.
What as in "Don't look back into the sun"?
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clashcityrocker wrote:
fishtank wrote: The guy in question is a self confessed Libertarian.
What as in "Don't look back into the sun"?
Well he certainly thinks he is "The man who would be king" i guess that makes him a bit of a "Narcissist".
Whatever it is his plan would see us on the "Road to ruin". :whistle
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fishtank wrote:
Locker Dave wrote:I think it is a good idea, Rm is 30 years behind real companies and needs competition in order to wake up.

The guy in question is a self confessed Libertarian.
He believes the only way to test a business model is to throw it in the deep end and see if it swims.
What he doesn't realise is that private companies only want profitable parts of any service.
So you would end up paying a tenner to send your granny in Inverness a birthday card.
These people prefer there to be no regulation of any markets.
This is exactly the same capitalist model that brought the banks to their knees not so long ago. :hmmmm
To be more exact he is a Conservative Libertarian as in to the right of that particular political philosophy. I had to read up on it :oops: when I took a Political on line test and it said I was a Left/Socialist Libertarian. :shock: :shock:
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TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
fishtank wrote:
Locker Dave wrote:I think it is a good idea, Rm is 30 years behind real companies and needs competition in order to wake up.

The guy in question is a self confessed Libertarian.
He believes the only way to test a business model is to throw it in the deep end and see if it swims.
What he doesn't realise is that private companies only want profitable parts of any service.
So you would end up paying a tenner to send your granny in Inverness a birthday card.
These people prefer there to be no regulation of any markets.
This is exactly the same capitalist model that brought the banks to their knees not so long ago. :hmmmm
To be more exact he is a Conservative Libertarian as in to the right of that particular political philosophy. I had to read up on it :oops: when I took a Political on line test and it said I was a Left/Socialist Libertarian. :shock: :shock:
You got a link to that test fella?
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proper postie wrote: You got a link to that test fella?
Tracking it down now will post as soon as found :Very Happy

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This picture from the site I will link in above certainly makes me understand why people feel disenfranchised.

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Fishtank wrote;
He believes the only way to test a business model is to throw it in the deep end and see if it swims.
Turds float but it doesn't mean that you want to share the pool with one.

Joking aside, the clown has absolutely no idea about the postal industry whatsoever. I don't think we should be dignifying his ill-conceived ramblings by discussing them. Simply put - ignore the twat!
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Mine :Very Happy
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