
privatise target
The English Post office is run as an government enterprise, its management and labour have many problems alike, attempts to modernise have been made messy and when you humans complain of being charged extra to deliver a large* birthday card. Then the shit soon hits the fan.
The website for royalmail.com is interesting since you still have to type in the www. thing. Posting is based a on size/weight and depth so its best to have a set of scales and a ruler just in case some deranged postal employee decides to be a shit as in the birthday card example i name above.
So you start to wonder about the sanity of posting anything other than an average sized piece of paper*.
Many big businesses now don’t use the post office, home delivery (even to the monkey house) is vague – get the felling that post is not important ? Even the delivery firms find that the post office drives clients to them.
A search through this blog will tell you that even Bananas thinks that the post office retail That’s the post office is run by crooks. So now even the labour party (thats Gordon Brown and ilk) think its time that the organisation needs to put out to pasture via a privatisation.
Post still has a use so this means selling it and part selling it to a foriegn operation means that this organisation has lost the power of the bulshit. Privatisation is a sacred cow no no to the Labour party. Labour renationalised the railways after some problems and for them to suggest that the Post Office is crap means even they see that when using the post office network as a bribe to labour mp’s in parliament there’s a bigger problem.
Post is expensive – and to prove that point a lot of us now use email, hell a phone call is cheaper unless your ring a sex chat line than posting something.
Before we all cheer that the idiots with the size/cubic/wieght are all going to lose there jobs we should be carefull since those idiots cannot even run a pension scheme so your taxes will have to go up.
Quite how the post office became so inefficient and who you blame – management or workers means a fun debate for all – but its not working.
* a little over the dl size