Telegraph.co.uk Privatised Royal Mail will deliver post more quickly, minister suggestsTelegraph.co.ukMr Fallon told an audience at the Policy Exchange that privatising Britain's national postal operator was “the way to put Royal Mail onto a long-term sustainable basis”. One advantage was privatised postal operators in Germany and Austria had been able …
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