Royal Mail’s long road from Tudor technocrat to Czech Sphinx

Eleven years ago, before the privatisation of Royal Mail, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity lobbed a small incendiary into the Square Mile. According to Graham Simpson, Vince Cable, the business secretary leading the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition’s sell-off, had got it disastrously wrong. It was not because the privatisation of a …

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‘I thought Australia Post was bad’

A Brit has shared their shock after a letter sent from a town just an hour away ended up going on a “world tour” to Australia. The UK resident said they got quite a surprise when they opened their “hospital appointment letter”, only to discover it had “somehow ended up …

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