What will Royal Mail’s takeover mean for customers and postal workers? - eviltoast
The billionaire Daniel Křetínský, AKA the Czech Sphinx, is poised to buy the business – but what does he have planned?
  • CaptObvious@literature.cafeEnglish
    222·
    6 months ago

    Wait, you guys privatized your mail service?! And are now selling it to a foreigner? What could possibly go wrong?

    • Dima@lemmy.oneEnglish
      20·
      6 months ago

      Wait, you guys privatized your mail service?!

      Yep, tories like to privatise everything even if it will make things worse or end so badly it needs to be renationalised

    • BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      Well you see it’s because of the profit motive. The service will get better and be done cheaper because they will find “efficiencies” that would not be seen if it was state owned. It’s elementary really. /s

      • CaptObvious@literature.cafeEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        So Thatcher took extra pages from Reagan? ;)

        Bless their hearts. (I’m from the southern US, for context.)