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Originally Posted by ZrByte
And you do realise after the modernisation RM are going to try again on the privatisation of the mail system. When that happens domestic deliveries become optional. With RM being the only company really interested in doing it anywhere but big cities you may find you wont have a delivery any more (at least not daily).
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This is typical union scaremongering and you shouldn't be taken in by it. Similar was said prior to the privatisation of BT more than 20 years ago, yet thanks to the universal service obligation they are still compelled to run lines to remote farms and crofts and to operate phone boxes in 'socially necessary' locations where they may not be profitable. The universal service is as healthy as it has ever been, with the outcome of the Digital Britain report now being that the universal service obligation for data services carried over the phone line being enhanced from the miserly few kilobits as it currently stands, up to at least 2 meg and perhaps more.