AS UNCERTAINTY over the future of the Royal Mail deepens, we hear the government of Singapore has just failed in its bid to open its 49 per cent privatised postal service to competition. SingPost, yes that’s the company name, pointed out that most people in the country live in flats with locked letter boxes, the keys to which are held only by the householder and SingPost, which refused to make them available to competitors on the grounds of national security. Now that’s the sort of language Lord Mandy would understand.
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