On 3/2/2014 8:47 PM, James Silverton wrote:
On 3/2/2014 6:45 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
On 2014-02-28 9:58 AM, 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...

That's can't be. Privatization means competition and efficiency and it
automatically leads to lower costs to the consumer.

If there were more than one competing delivery services that might be
true but the Mail still seems to be a monopoly.

No, it's no longer a monopoly -
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/business/worldbusiness/30iht-ukpost.html