On Wednesday, 19 November 2014 13:00:55 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Adrian wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:04:22 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Open up mail deliveries to all - who then 'poach' the very profitable
town deliveries - leaving the old RM to deliver to unprofitable
locations at the same price as anywhere else. And they've now
discovered this can't be done.

As the saying goes, you hardly need a crystal ball...

Since when was there a monopoly on parcel deliveries, anyway?

I was talking about mail - not parcels.

What's the differnece or rather which is which.
Here where I work they have decided that in general women can only collect post not parcels, it seems it's up to the men to collect parcels.

We are an equal oppotunity employer and if I wanted to give up my lunch hour I could attend the athena swan meeting about glass cieling/cliffs which only women and minority groups are affected by.

if anyone wants to understand glass ceilings or glass cliffs
http://psychology.exeter.ac.uk/research/glasscliff/