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The UK's postal service market will be fully liberalised from 1 January 2006, regulator Postcomm announced, following three months of consultation.

From that date, any licensed operator will be able to deliver mail to business and residential customers.

Royal Mail, which controls 99% of the market, welcomed the news but the main postal union said it was "ill-advised".

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Argh. Yeah, because privatizing the railways under Thatcher worked sooo well, let's try this too! Actually, the Royal Mail is not a Crown corporation in the UK, I think it was Thatcher that privatized it, too, but now any company can set up its own delivery service, postboxes, etc.

Tony Blair's government is absolutely obsessed with providing 'choice', as if having a multitude of options to pick from makes your life easier. Instead, you wind up either sticking with what you know, or you spend all of your waking hours trying to choose the best option.

So Blair's government thinks this will provide more choice and cheaper rates, but what it really will do is provide cheaper rates to the majority urban population and more expensive rates to the minority rural population.

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Originally posted by aRoused:

So Blair's government thinks this will provide more choice and cheaper rates, but what it really will do is provide cheaper rates to the majority urban population and more expensive rates to the minority rural population.

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