Bavarianbrit
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I thought Maggie had sold off all the family silver years ago, she must have missed the post then? Perhaps we can now sell off the civil service to an oligarch or two.
Royal Mail being sold.
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The “Rebranding” experts will be forming an overexcited queue and filling in their invoices even as we speak, the team from Jaguar should be available soon !I think it already has a Royal Warrant, so unless the King takes it away when the new owners take over (and that seems unlikely) then I don't see why it can't continue to be called Royal Mail
However, you never know what the new owners might want - they might want to call it "Britpost" or something
Cheers
Bruce
Here we all are communicating via internet, wailing about a foreign company buying a moribund, loss-making, union-bound British business which nobody needs any more.
I want to know when someone's going to do something to defend the British mail-coach network being outcompeted by Herr Benz's infernal mechanical carriage.
I want to know when someone's going to do something to defend the British mail-coach network being outcompeted by Herr Benz's infernal mechanical carriage.
According to the Royal Warrant Holders Association, all warrants granted by Queen Elizabeth II became void upon her death.I think it already has a Royal Warrant, so unless the King takes it away when the new owners take over (and that seems unlikely) then I don't see why it can't continue to be called Royal Mail
However, you never know what the new owners might want - they might want to call it "Britpost" or something
Cheers
Bruce
Companies will be permitted to keep the royal insignia on their packaging, website and official documents for a further two years. It is not yet clear whether those companies awarded a warrant by the then Prince of Wales will be allowed to use the King's insignia or if they will be reissued.
Don't know specifically about Royal Mail though, maybe Charles has renewed it.
HonestJohn
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His direct debit bounced
Family silver?? Most of it wasn't even scrap fencing.
A renegotiated contract with this character could see an early win for the new owners, EP Group:
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Bavarianbrit
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Very true.
The Universal Postal Agreement that adjusts costs according to a country's cost of handling overseas mail incoming to it. As, of course, it gets no payment for this. So, as far as i was given to understand, countries that get lots of incoming mail from overseas charge more for their outgoing overseas mail to cover that cost. Folk don't send a lot of mail to Albania so there overseas postal rates to send to us are cheap compared to ours to send to them.
shakey jake
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What german, bloody forgein involvement
Interesting comment. It had me googling, and it seems that may be 50 years or so out of date. Countries now receive payment for handling incoming mail too, and increasingly at sensible rates (another unknown benefit of a Trump tantrum).
Bavarianbrit
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A game of chess?
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