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US: Unions say privatizing postal services in Europe have led to reduced services, increased prices, job losses, and cut off rural communities (uniglobalunion.org)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What they’re saying is true. The former state owned postal service now delivers mail every second day here and the postage has risen several hundred percent. They’re debating whether they should deliver only once a week. One of the private delivery companies only delivers once every two weeks if there are others in the area that have packages to be delivered.

It was a big mistake to break up the state monopoly on mail and package deliveries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Almost like privatising important utilities and services is a really bad thing! Weiiiird!