@matigo It happened here. Prices went up a lot and delivery times lengthened. They have to make profits now to support the share price…and executives need to be paid their massive bonuses. Over here in Victorian times, there could be multiple postal deliveries per day, maybe four or five, sometimes extremely early in the morning. And a first class stamp meant next day delivery…but sometimes arrived the same day. Even when I was a youngster, you did on occasion get a second delivery in a day and first class always meant next day (probably between 8AM and 10AM). Not long after privatisation, first class became more like two to three days, so similar to the old second class stamp. Next day delivery is now a luxury add-on for the well-to-do, the spendthrifts and the desperate. Second deliveries became more and more rare, and I don’t think they happen now. And the letterbox doesn’t clank these days until 1PM to 2PM. The after-bloody-noon?
Oh, and when privatisation happened, the new corporate parent company of the old Royal Mail gave itself one of those hideously bland trendy names. 'Consignia' I think it was. Whenever a company adopts a meaningless made-up name, you know standards are about to go downhill.
/@joeo10