Blow to NHS as Royal Mail raises prices for bulk users by a third

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• yakko@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  13 years of Royal Mail privatisation, how are we feeling about it?

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• dunestorm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why isn’t NHS exempt from Royal Mail fees? This is the most idiotic thing I’ve ever seen; healthcare isn’t optional.

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  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because the “royal” mail is a for-profit private company owned by a Czech billionaire

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Don’t worry, I’m sure the privatisation will bring costs down… any minute now. Vince Cable says so.

  I’m sure their core of “high quality investors” will be along to sort it out any minute now, won’t they Mr Cable? You lying sack of shit.

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  • tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But just think what the UK would have been like if Thatcher and those “Winston Churchill”-sprited neo liberals hadn’t privatised everything: a perpetual cost of living crisis, low wages, high mortgages and rents, housing shortages, sky-high energy costs, hosepipe bans, sewage pumped into our rivers and seas, declining welfare services, town centres boarded up… oh… maybe not then…

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• matelt@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Correct me if I’m wrong, but there isn’t alternative for sending letters is it? So essentially they have us by the balls.

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well there’s email / NHS App, where letters get published digitally. If they do anything like my bank where you can opt-out of paper communcations then that would save some £ by not having to send mail to people that don’t want it. There’s obviously going to be a portion of the demographics that would prefer to receive physical mail, but they’ll be declining over time.

    There’s also 3rd party companies that will handle mail (pick up, processing) and put it into the RM network at the end for a cheaper price than RM do. Not sure if the NHS are using that already though.

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    • matelt@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah true, when their systems aren’t malfunctioning (they sent me the same letter 4 times in error when my local trust moved to a new system, despite having opted in for paperless correspondence, but that’s another can of worms).

      I meant letters in general though, could Joe Public use any of those 3rd parties if they want to send, say, a few large letters? I recently tried to do a diy grassroot campaign with my union, we wanted to send badges to our members but the cost of stamps was prohibitively high and we could not find any 3rd party that would do it for us. And we didn’t want to open a business account for what’s likely to be a one off.

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