> the post office going bust, and then nationalised would be a good outcome.
I strongly disagree. This mismanagement was going on long before the PO was privatised. In fact I'd argue that it was never really privatised.
We don't need a national postal carrier; a lot of post is now carried by private competitors. The Parcels operation is overpriced. Telecom has been hived off, long ago. What remains is a delivery service; and a network of Post Offices and pillar-boxes. I would instead (a) privatise the carrier service; and (b) nationalise the network of drop-off points, and make that available for use by any carrier. The PO shouldn't be things like a bank, a travel agent, or a delivery system for Social Security.
BT has similar problems, being the other graft from the same stock. I don't agree that OpenReach should be nationalised; OpenReach needs to be exposed to the bracing breeze of competition. It's currently effectively a monopoly.
I strongly disagree. This mismanagement was going on long before the PO was privatised. In fact I'd argue that it was never really privatised.
We don't need a national postal carrier; a lot of post is now carried by private competitors. The Parcels operation is overpriced. Telecom has been hived off, long ago. What remains is a delivery service; and a network of Post Offices and pillar-boxes. I would instead (a) privatise the carrier service; and (b) nationalise the network of drop-off points, and make that available for use by any carrier. The PO shouldn't be things like a bank, a travel agent, or a delivery system for Social Security.
BT has similar problems, being the other graft from the same stock. I don't agree that OpenReach should be nationalised; OpenReach needs to be exposed to the bracing breeze of competition. It's currently effectively a monopoly.