Zorro
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:24 am
"I do not see how any of your four points have the slightest to do with pricing."
I know you wouldn't see it. To put it as simply as possible there are two basic ways of maximising profits - cutting costs/raising prices. Privatised companies do both in spades.
"If the Royal Mail charges more, companies will just not use them"
You appear to inhabit a world where privatisation inevitably brings effective competition from which the customer benefits. It doesn't work in the utility sector does it, where prices are much of a muchness? Nor does it work in many, many parts of the retail sector where the prices of food from the supermarket go up in unison and prices of white goods are very, very similar.
Prices in the Royal Mail will go up in line with price rises everywhere else in the sector as part of the relentless drive to maximise profits in privately owned companies.
And finally your obsession with the concept that only the private sector can provide investment in business. This is nonsense......obviously. Zorro, you have just had your pocket picked by the coalition government...cop on!!
I know you wouldn't see it. To put it as simply as possible there are two basic ways of maximising profits - cutting costs/raising prices. Privatised companies do both in spades.
"If the Royal Mail charges more, companies will just not use them"
You appear to inhabit a world where privatisation inevitably brings effective competition from which the customer benefits. It doesn't work in the utility sector does it, where prices are much of a muchness? Nor does it work in many, many parts of the retail sector where the prices of food from the supermarket go up in unison and prices of white goods are very, very similar.
Prices in the Royal Mail will go up in line with price rises everywhere else in the sector as part of the relentless drive to maximise profits in privately owned companies.
And finally your obsession with the concept that only the private sector can provide investment in business. This is nonsense......obviously. Zorro, you have just had your pocket picked by the coalition government...cop on!!