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Originally Posted by ZrByte
I hope your right because I'm a customer too you know.
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Of course I'm right. And I say that as a resident of one of the very far-flung communities that RM might be expected to drop like a hot potato, were the universal service not to remain as an obligation post any privatisation.
All the once state-run utilities are subject to regulation on some level or other. It prevents them cherry-picking only the most profitable parts of the business and forces them to shoulder responsibilities in proportion to the commercial advantage they hold as a long-term incumbent supplier.
To suggest that a privatised Royal Mail would be allowed to abandon universal service is utterly without foundation.