Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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BT was successfully privatised. Why not royal Mail?
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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I doubt very much whether the members of those two very fine organisations would agree that the state is competently looking after their affairs, they are both being devastated.
Audere est facere.
Well, I wouldn't want to be TUPEing all those pensions! And small businesses have long been using alternatives wherever possible because of the poor service from Royal Mail.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Fair point Martin that, in a way, proves the rule. The defence of the nation is the prime and most important duty of governments and our armed forces have not had the resources they need for decades, not since Options for Change. As for the police, well, they are not in such a poor position though our whole criminal justice system itself is a total joke. The problem is that there is no reasonable alternative to them being in the hands of the state - even I draw the line of privatisation somewhere....
Keith Sansum1
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wasn't david shaw (dover tory mp) in the past he told me in the house of commons that the tories were to take the pensions of a lot of industries.
doesn't he wok in finance in london?
was he wrong?
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Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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It is a big hike in postage, but do we get a bad deal for our money? I posted a letter at 2pm to Yorkshire last week and it must have arrived the next morning as I had a reply 24hrs later. I suspect there are not many Countries in Europe with what will be 60p first class post arriving the very next day.
I am not saying I am happy with the rise in postage but even with it I think we get value for money.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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the problem will be harry when all the compitition comes in
did you watch dover fc second blip last night lol
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I do not understand what you are saying Keith. Perhaps you did the same with what David Shaw told you - pensions are very complex so it would be understandable. The government cannot dip into the pension schemes as such and neither can employers, certainly not since the 1995 act that was in response to Maxwell's corrupt practises.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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david shaw was wrong then ok.
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Harry, I think you were lucky. We have waited days and sometimes weeks for post (especially from US) from RM, in comparison with the other companies from whom we have had much better service in comparable situations.
Guest 739- Registered: 16 Jan 2012
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I'll be off to Superdrug on Friday - they sell stamps a bit chaeper for some reason. As the stamp doesn't have an amount on it they will still be valid even if they put it up to a quid. It's going to have one heck of a knock-on effect for my ebay selling if I have to increase the postage to even more than I can justify now.
My dad muttered something about the price going up so Royal Mail can make a profit for when it gets privatised. I'll have to ask him where that thought came from...........
I think we are all guinea pigs in the middle of an experiment for which they have forgotten to set up a control group!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Not necessarily Keith - you may not have fully understood what he said. As I said it is a very complex area and that is wholly understandable if you did not grasp what he said.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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oh barryw not that tact again
i understood fully
he went into great detail
so please barryw enough lol
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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barry,seen the gold prices lately,you would need loads of silver to buy it.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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oh dear brian
who's going to get us out of the poo lol
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I doubt it Keith, you have shown that you did not. As I say there is nothing wrong with that as it is a specialist area.
Brian - indeed gold prices are high - it really does reflect so badly on Brown when he ignored the good advice he received....
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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not this cobbled together goverment,nor a labour or lib/dem one either.but what the heck we are all in it together.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 28,#32,#36,......Keith please remember you are a fkn................
# 3....,thanks.......just made a short term investment...100 1st & 200 2nd...will save a few quid at Christmas.....
Don`t worry BW your still not on our Christmas card list............
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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i have looked at all the possibilities and have not worked out what an fkn is.
kindly enlighten me reg.
incidentally, my experience of the postal service is the same as harry's, every foreign person i know that has visited our shores over the years says the same, though i concede that in recent years post for some has arrived late morning or even the afternoon which is not good for businesses.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Oh Howard, a fkn is a Forumite Know-nuffink. Do catch up!
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson