Please don't privatise our Postal Service

People that live (as we do here) a very long way from civilisation - will gradually be neglected if the UK Postal service is privatised. 

On the whole I back capitalism. Governments are not good at running things and a spot of competition is very healthy. But - get real -  there is no way that a private company is going to run a loss making service. 

Delivering mail to distant parts is not profitable just as providing television, mobile phone and internet coverage and transport are not profitable. For instance - we can’t get ordinary telly here - there is no reception at all. 

There are some things Government must run because otherwise some people will lose out big time. Government needs to protect them.

Apart from the above - another obvious thing is the NHS. It could be possible for private enterprise to take over. They would do very well with all the profitable glamorous stuff -but would ignore the non-profitable such as mental health. The results would be too terrible to contemplate. 

In country areas (such as this) the postman is a very important person. As well as mail, he delivers prescriptions to the housebound, as well as occasionally keeping a wee unofficial eye on the infirm and the elderly living alone.

Three years ago we were on holiday in a small town in Southern Italy called Giurdignano (population 1,911). Their postal service had been privatised. The result - no deliveries to their town, no post office in their town. They were all forced to drive to the nearest big centre to collect mail and deliver mail. 

This will happen here - be warned