"Martin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:58:42 -0500, S Viemeister
wrote:

On 2/28/2014 9:55 AM, James Silverton wrote:
It's perhaps OT but the British Royal mail is to raise the price of a
1oz first class stamp to GBP 0.62. That's USD 1.03 and makes the US
first class stamp at USD 0.49 sound like a bargain.

Royal Mail was recently privatised...

and Dutch mail was privatised some years ago. The result is an utter
disaster.

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As was Swedish mail - and the prices shot up - 6SEK for a 20g latter which
is pretty much the same price as in the UK

But closing down "crown" post offices and moving the counter services into
supermarkets improved that considerably

IMHO the UK unions are onto a looser trying to argue that this move worsens
the service for the majority of punters

tim