Originally Posted by
Gronnuck
What I would like to know is why my Royal Mail postie delivers mail on behalf of Business Post, TNT and a myriad of other private companies. If the private sector can collect and sort the mail why can't they deliver it too?
Simply put they deliver these items because they are forced to by Postcomm. They do not want to for they actually lose money in delivering mail from other contractors.
The private companies will not deliver up here as they would make a loss if they did. If Royal Mail ever went Private then you would only get mail once or twice a week and not a delivery every day like you do at present.
Also when it comes to business mail, tenders had to be put in. All Private companies were allowed to put in a tender for whatever price they wanted. Royal Mail were told by Postcomm they could not charge less than their standard rate for a first class stamp.
Due to this most of the business mail was undercut by other companies. Then on top of that Royal Mail were told they had to deliver all the mail to places where the other companies could not deliver and they had to do this at a rate where the original contractor still made a profit.
This then meant that Royal Mail makes a Loss for every letter or Packet that they deliver on behalf of the other companies.
One of the Biggest Business contracts is the Government and they were one of the first to stop using Royal Mail. It is also the Government who is pushing to sell off Royal Mail.
Makes you think does it not?
Last edited by Kodiak; 19-Oct-09 at 18:27.
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