This cynical Royal Mail and Post Office divorce will bring only misery | Lindsey Mackie and Maurice Glasman

A trusted institution, part of our civic inheritance, is being forced into a price system that strips it of meaning and function Even Margaret Thatcher hesitated when confronted with the privatisation of the Post Office . She did not think that turning the concept of "royal" into a commodity was something that would sit right with the British people. It is a sign of the times that with the …

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