• li10@feddit.uk
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    Seems like the sort of thing where everyone says “why the fuck was that allowed to happen, what a fucking disaster” in 10 years time.

    For now though, greasy palmed politicians will say it’s the right thing to do.

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      We’re only now feeling the effects of the water privatisation of a few decades ago along with the selling off of the council houses.

    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukOPM
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      It’s a complete farce, imho. Especially since it’s another case of “buying a company by taking out loans against that same company”.

      It’ll just be a waiting game for the promises to expire, then splitting off the profitable bits, lumping the debt onto the obligated post bit, and letting the state pick up the pieces.

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    Wait, you guys privatized your mail service?! And are now selling it to a foreigner? What could possibly go wrong?

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      Wait, you guys privatized your mail service?!

      Yep, tories like to privatise everything even if it will make things worse or end so badly it needs to be renationalised

    • BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Well you see it’s because of the profit motive. The service will get better and be done cheaper because they will find “efficiencies” that would not be seen if it was state owned. It’s elementary really. /s

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        So Thatcher took extra pages from Reagan? ;)

        Bless their hearts. (I’m from the southern US, for context.)

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    Even the U.S. under Trump didn’t do this. Wow.

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      I thought he tried by placing some nutter in charge of the postal service?

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        DeJoy. Founder of a FedEx competitor called XPO. He’s STILL there due to the way appointments to the office are done, and continues his fuckery. But even he hasn’t managed to fucking privatize the US mail system.

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    No more customers getting blamed for ‘fake’ stamps, hopefully

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      More like life bans or deactivation of new mandatory accounts (for data collection) if you don’t stick it on straight.