![]() ![]() I did some wrinkle-free distressing with Distress Inks and Oxides in Stormy Sky and Bundled Sage (both colours in both formulations). Look to Thames Water still paying dividends to shareholders whilst their network is crumbling and dumping raw sewage into rivers.This all started out as a pair of tags, because there's no a chance that I would actually plan to make cards. But I’m sure those individuals buying shares in it at the initial offering weren’t doing it because they wanted to invest in a great British company. I appreciate it had its share of problems mainly due to the government of the day either redirecting its profits or plundering its pension surplus. For five hundred years Royal Mail survived without the need for private investment. ![]() The outgoing CEO in his comments makes it clear in his comments that parcel delivery is the future and had already made approaches to the government to reduce its letter obligation. It’s a free market and no one has come forward yet. Please don’t be thinking that Amazon or suchlike will be taking on letter delivery because that will never happen. Royal Mail should be adhering to a Universal service Obligation meaning a one price goes anywhere in the country. We can all boycott sending letters and use email but that would worsen the situation and Royal Mail would be absolutely delighted to lose the costly burden of letter delivery. The issue is what can we do about it to improve it. To read the original article, complete with examples, and the letter to the Royal Mail, click here. This is an edited version of an article that first appeared on her website. ![]() With Royal Mail management remaining tight-lipped on the scale of the problems with local deliveries in Brighton and Hove, I will be highlighting my ongoing concerns to ministers and with Ofcom.Ĭaroline Lucas is the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion. To read some of the problems that constituents have raised with me in recent weeks, click here and scroll down. I also asked this parliamentary question challenging the proposal to reduce Royal Mail staff by 10,000, as well as this question about the Royal Mail Group’s dividends.Īnd I fully supported the 100,000 Royal Mail postal workers who engaged in strike action to protest about low pay and poor working conditions, as you can see by my support for this early day motion. The motion condemned Royal Mail’s continued attack on jobs while shareholders receive £311 million in rewards. For this reason, I added my name to this “early day motion”. Since privatisation, Royal Mail’s track record on affordability, quality and the fair treatment of workers has been badly undermined. With that promise broken, there needs to be some accountability.īack in 2014, Vince Cable was recalled to Parliament after a National Audit Office report found that the sale of Royal Mail cost the taxpayer £750 million. The core justification of the then government’s privatisation plan was that the universal service obligation would be protected. While it’s good that Ofcom is investigating the shocking state of Royal Mail, it’s not enough. The Royal Mail offices in North Road in Brighton With the company now run for profit and for the benefit of shareholders, Royal Mail is far from the six-day-a-week universal postal service the government promised when they chose to privatise it. It is embedded in legislation and cannot be removed.” The fact is that the universal service obligation was clearly underwritten by Parliament. Vince Cable MP boldly stated at the time: “The best way of reassuring the public is to demolish some of the myths. I opposed the privatisation of Royal Mail, a proposal mooted around by Gordon Brown in the dying days of the previous Labour government, which was pursued and voted through by the Conservative / Lib Dem coalition that followed. ![]() In quarter three last year, first class stamped deliveries fell to just 44.1 per cent of its 93 per cent target. In Brighton, Royal Mail was way off its delivery targets, which will come as no surprise to many of my constituents. With Ofcom currently investigating Royal Mail’s failure to meet its delivery targets in 2022-23, it’s vital that regulators take action. And it’s at senior management level where the problems appear to lie, with reports of postal workers under pressure to prioritise parcels over letters and with questions being raised about the “toxic” working environment. ![]()
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