Ofcom have announced that controls on the price of stamps will be withdrawn, somehow believing that charging more will help the struggling Royal Mail, rather than encouraging even more people to find alternatives, which would be pretty much the opposite of helping.
‘Changes needed to be made as more and more people were switching to text messages, emails and online messaging, posing a serious risk to the UK’s postal service.’ said Stuart Macintosh of Ofcom, who apparently believes that encouraging the few people who still use the service to switch too is the answer to the problem.
‘No other carrier can match Royal Mail’s record of losing or damaging items sent in the post, so we are confident that people will be happy to pay a little more rather than switching to a courier with a proven capability of delivering a parcel to the correct address, not smashed into hundreds of pieces.’
