We recognise that the Royal Mail is a vital national and publicly-owned institution which delivers a quality service and works to bind the United Kingdom together.

We demand a reassurance that the Royal Mail will remain a publicly-owned, public service organisation with the investment necessary to take it into the 21st century.

We oppose any further privatisation (destruction) of this public institution and we demand that the government ditch the EU Directives which have privatised (destroyed) many of the most financially successful parts of the Royal Mail, and which consequently have created its financial losses.

There are 3 EU Directives to blame. These are Directives 97/67/EC, 2002/39/EC and 2008/06/EC, which are designed to end national postal monopolies by 2010 and to promote “cross-border” integration of the EU’s postal services.
See: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/post/legislation_en.htm

As Christopher Booker has written:
As a result Royal Mail had to surrender the most profitable part of its operations, when bulk business mailing was opened up to rival firms. It still has to deliver business mail, for a knock-down price of 14p an item, while the 19 companies that bid successfully for the business of collecting and sorting them cream off all the profits.
This was a major factor turning Royal Mail’s profits into a £179 million annual loss. Driven into desperate cost-cutting exercises, it drastically reduced post-box collections and ended those on Sunday altogether, while making vain attempts to raise revenue, such as its mad “size and weight” pricing scheme. But then EU law kicked in a second time, when our Government was not allowed to make up the resulting deficit under EU state-aid rules.
This was why Nigel Stapleton, head of Postcomm, suggested last year that the only way round the state-aid rules was to part-privatise Royal Mail, thus allowing it to borrow on the open market.
Christopher Booker, “Mandelson’s package and the loss of Royal Mail”, The Sunday Telegraph, 1 March 2009.

So, the first thing we need to do is seek reassurance that the Royal Mail will remain publicly-owned, and the second thing we need to do is to break free of the EU Directives which are forcing the destruction of this valuable British national institution.

Furthermore, we call for fair wages. We want to see the big salaries and bonuses for the management cut, and we want to see the salaries for Royal Mail staff increased.

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