Royal Mail must modernise if it is to maintain traditional and …The Herald, UKSome important points need to be made in response to your editorial ("Royal Mail's future – this is not the time to sell public institution", April 21). The government's proposals have at their heart maintenance of the six-day-a-week, …
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