There is a Kindle version of the Economist, and Kindle readers are available for Android and Apple phone and tablet devices. When I was commuting into the City I found reading the Independent on my phone was a lot easier than holding a newspaper when I was crammed into a corner by the door on a SWR or tube train, or, on the soon to become extinct, 521 bus.Sadly, the directors and managers at the Royal Mail don't seem to have found a strategy to take the Royal Mail business forward into a shrinking market with increasing competition from alternative, electronic and more efficient message delivery services. As noted by Conservatives the UK is aiming for a high wage economy in a reducing pool of workers. The management seem to show a lack of foresight in acquiring a regulated service that stipulates specific service levels without planning how they're going to implement a non existent strategy. It's shortsighted of them to have thought they'd just fight the CWU to reduce workers benefits and conditions I can't see how they can maintain their service requirements for post at reduced staffing levels; first class and other post often fails to meet its targets now seemingly because of difficulties with staffing levels, and my understanding is agency staff, presumably more expensive than regular employees, are often used to prop up the service?
Michael Ixer ● 1166d