Royal Mail - All Change for Postman Pat (Business Cafe)

Royal Mail has been privatised. Most of the shares the government owned in it have been sold off to private investors. You might have thought that ‘privatisation’ had become something of a forgotten word until recently. After all, the last comparable sale was Railtrack (now Network Rail) back in 1996. Even Margaret Thatcher would not allow the sell-off of Royal Mail.

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