{"id":1164,"date":"2013-07-15T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T12:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialscienceslibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:55","slug":"uk-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2013\/07\/15\/uk-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Postal Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This<b> <\/b>week UK government confirmed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-23249466\">Royal Mail will be\u00a0floated on the Stock Exchange<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0Royal Mail: myth-busters &#8211;\u00a0Answers common misconceptions about the government&#8217;s plans to sell shares in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/royal-mail-myth-busters\"> Royal Mail.\u00a0 <\/a>UK government publication explains the new policy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/royal-mail-ensuring-long-term-success\">Recent speeches <\/a>and plans\u00a0also found on th<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidegovernment.co.uk\/\">e Inside government<\/a> section of the website\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/royal-mail\">The Guardian<\/a> has newspapers stories and blog postings. As does the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/royal-mail\/\">Telegraph.\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwu.org\/news\/archive\/communication-workers-union-today-reacted-to-the-announcement-of-a-flotation-of-royal-mail-as-illogical-and-impractical.html\"> Communication Workers Union <\/a>opposes the plans.\u00a0 Its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwu.org\/51327\/postal.html\">website also has other research reports on postal service<\/a> and is involved in the Campaign group<a href=\"http:\/\/saveourroyalmail.org\/\"> Save our Royal Mail<\/a>\u00a0who <a href=\"http:\/\/saveourroyalmail.org\/2013\/07\/press-release-royal-mail-sell-off-government-clearly-out-of-touch-with-public-opinion\/\">argued that the government is out of<\/a> touch with public opinion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bow Group also warns about the dangers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bowgroup.org\/policy\/return-sender-now-right-time-privatise-royal-mail\">http:\/\/www.bowgroup.org\/policy\/return-sender-now-right-time-privatise-royal-mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For an international perspective try the website of the\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upu.int\/en.html\">The Universal Postal Union<\/a> which provides information and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upu.int\/en\/resources\/postal-statistics\/about-postal-statistics.html\">data<\/a> on postal services worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week UK government confirmed that Royal Mail will be\u00a0floated on the Stock Exchange \u00a0Royal Mail: myth-busters &#8211;\u00a0Answers common misconceptions about the government&#8217;s plans to sell shares in Royal Mail.\u00a0 UK government publication explains the new policy. Recent speeches and plans\u00a0also found on the Inside government section of the website\u00a0\u00a0 The Guardian has newspapers stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,10,9],"tags":[235,237,65,92],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-management","category-labour-market-studies","tag-economics","tag-finance","tag-labour-market","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5755,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/5755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}