Britain Acts To Keep Queen's Head On Stamps

Not new news, but news ...

Britain acts to keep Queen's head on stamps
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2010121...rivatisation

The royal image is definitely a part of UK stamps and it looks to stay that way. BTW, loved the comments.

Yes, particularly the one about how the privatized US system is bad ???

I don't think that the U.S. Postal System is bad because of privatization, but bad in spite of privatization. Cell phones, faxes, e-mail, fedex and UPS all have had their impact.

It all seems rather obvious to me,
people want too much money for their labour.
"Pursuit of happiness" has slipped sublimely into greed.
Governments pass the buck and give it to privatisation,
privatisation does the nasty work, and passes it back to
the people. How hilarious is that?

Can the CEO of a major bank, be worth in 1 years salary,
the amount most of us, as a mortgage, spend our entire
life repaying?
Of course a postie needs (here) $1000 a week wages,
because that what his fellow workers earn up at the
mines digging up iron ore to sell to China.
They pay outrageous prices for homes that posties
want to live in as well.
You cannot deny them that.

Is a mineworker worth twice the pay a postie gets,
stuck on a piddly motorbike in traffic and 100 degree heat?

I think we have the problem, assuming thaings should be any other
way than what they are.

Rod, remember everybody is entitled to everything and our grand kids are entitled to pay for it. Greed by many, ignorance by some and an unwillingness of our "leaders" (if that isn't a misnomer) to make the hard choices. So much for my daily rant.

Not a rant Russ, a discussion,
I certainly dont have the answers,
but a beginning would be something like no man should have
a salary worth more than 50 times his neighbor,
(Yeah, and like that would work! :)
and how, in a democracy, can you make hard choices
whilst winning at the ballot box. It doesn't work.

Agreed, @Russ and @Rodney (and Rodney, my friend, nice to run into you here!)

In the U.S. at least, the government privatizes the nasty stuff that the government couldn't legally do, then channels them taxpayer dollars. If they make money, they get to keep the money; if they fail, they the gov gives the business more taxpayer monies to bail them out. Private business is a dodge for government regulation, and the business men are enticed to this arrangement by privatized gain and socialized risk.

Hope this is still "discussion", not "rant"! ;-)

I would bet that its pretty rare that a person has a salary more than fifty times that of his neighbor...if he did, he would have already been looking to move to a "nicer" neighborhood.

Now, more than fifty times that of his or her lowest paid employee? That's going on everywhere...

I thought the queen's head would go better on the queen's body??

I don't think anyone would dare say, "Off with her head!"

Is nothing sacred?

Hey, I just report the news. I'm not clever enough to add the commentary.

But I do love the wisecracks

KirkS

Rats... the link doesn't work anymore...

Well, this isn't the exact same story, but the gist is the same...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-image.html

KirkS

Germany running the Royal Mail??? I guess I don't quite understand how that is possible... A lot of postal services sound like companies, not government agencies... is this correct?