In light of the recent flurry at the stock exchange
Futures Forum: Royal Mail privatisation: concerns for rural communities
and fears for the future
Royal Mail privatisation recipe for disaster for rural areas and countryside in Devon and Cornwall | Western Morning News
the leadership of the District Council have proposed the following motion for next week's full council meeting on Wednesday 23rd October at 6.30 pm:
13 Motion 1 – Post Office Services (now privatised)
“This Council recognises that it is the policy of the Government to privatise the Royal Mail but the Council is extremely concerned that the inter business agreement signed between Post Office Limited and the Royal Mail Group is not sufficiently robust to ensure the essential requirement that the “Universal” principle is maintained with satisfactory services continuing in rural areas both by the maintenance of adequate provision of rural post offices and by the requirement for postal deliveries to continue throughout rural as well as urban areas in the entire country.”
Proposed by Councillor Ken Potter, Seconded by Councillor Tim Wood and supported by Councillors Paul Diviani, Ray Bloxham, and Peter Sullivan.
http://www.eastdevon.gov.uk/council_agenda_231013.pdf
The government has tried to allay such fears:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/239307/bis-13-756-royal-mail-myth-busters-revised-sep12-2013.pdf
And others are in fact looking forward to improved services:
Post Offices could be in for a boost when Royal Mail is privatised - Rural Mole
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