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Article: BLACKMAILThreat to the one-price post; Let us deliver more junk mail says post chief, or 167 years of one-price-for-all deliveries will have to end.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 28, 2007
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Byline: BECKY BARROW
ROYAL Mail has warned that its 167-year- old universal service is under threat unless it is allowed to deliver more junk mail.
Since the Penny Black in 1840, everyone in Britain, from the Cornish coast to the Scottish Highlands, has paid the same price to post a letter.
But in a stark ultimatum, Royal Mail said the service was struggling for survival as the firm haemorrhages lucrative business contracts.
Chief executive Adam Crozier said: 'Just allowing things to continue as they are will put the universal service obligation at risk.
This is not scaremongering.' The threat comes from the 'explosive' loss ...