I have just handed over a parcel that we took in for a neighbour. Said my mother: "It wasn't the Royal Mail, it was a private company."
You know the answer. It was very, very strange to utter. Somehow, Britain now feels a little bit more like a foreign country.
Against their own principles, this privatisation's advocates and beneficiaries are giving themselves an unfair advantage by continuing to call it "Royal", and to have the Queen's head, the Crown and the Royal Cypher on its products and facilities.
If it is now a private company, then it is now a private company.
It is not very Milton Friedman to depend for its market dominance on pretending that it is still an arm of the State.
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