The Alliance in the Telegraph: Rural postal service 'under threat'

On Monday 1st December, the Daily Telegraph reported" Britain's postal service is under major threat in rural areas because private postal firms are cherry picking lucrative delivery contracts in towns and cities, campaigners have warned on Monday. They warned that "unfettered competition" was making threatening the universal postal service, which means that a letter or package can be delivered to 29 million addresses within the United Kingdom six days a week for the same price. The signatories to the letter – including Sir Barney White-Spunner, executive chairman of the Countryside Alliance....said that the one price anywhere postal service was a "feature of a civilised society, where services meet all circumstances at all times". Read the article here. Read the letter, "Universal post", here. Ensuring the Universal Service Obligation is part of our Election Manifesto.