Wednesday, 3 July 2013

STOP THE PRIVATISATION OF THE ROYAL MAIL



The UK Government is currently preparing the way for the privatisation of the Royal Mail.

Privatisation

This, rather than Scottish independence, is by far the biggest threat to a decent postal service within Scotland (Indeed voting yes in next years referendum will likely mean the immediate stopping of the deterioration in postal services within Scotland).

Deterioration in service

Royal Mail’s management has been preparing for this for some time by closing local delivery offices, ignoring the needs of local communities and vastly increasing the charges to the users of their services. After all it is being forced to make a profit and is required to no longer care about anything else.

ignoring the needs of local communities

In my case I now avoid having parcels delivered if at all possible as it is virtually impossible for me to actually get them due to the distance of the new delivery/sorting office from my house, the lack of public transport to it, and the cost of having the item redelivered in a way I can actually easily get it.

Do we want the Royal Mail to go the way of electricity?

Do we want the Royal Mail to go the way of electricity, gas, railways and English water?

I think not!

Sign the petition...

2 comments:

Christopher Crawford said...

96% of Royal Mail staff have voted against privatisation, yet the UK Government is still proceeding with it. Independence for Scotland will mean uncertainty with power, unlike now we have uncertainty without any. The Scottish Government does not want Royal Mail privatisation but can do nothing about it. Vote YES.

Christopher Crawford said...

http://saveourroyalmail.org/

The Official Save Our Royal Mail website