• Toda@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    I hate to be a bore, and regurgitate the same “leftie” discourse that gets repeated a lot online, but:

    Royal Mail would become “financially and operationally unsustainable in the long term”

    This is because Royal Mail has become private and is now required to become profitable / increase it’s value over time. Which is nonsense. It should be a public service funded by a mix of direct payment (e.g. stamps) and taxation.

    If continuing to run six days per week, as the are currently obliged to, has become unsustainable then perhaps it is time it returns to public ownership.

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        10 months ago

        Are you mad? It’s not that you need service 6 days a week it’s that you need access to the service 6 days a week.

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          10 months ago

          They’re only asking a question, no need to call them "mad’ for that. You could have explained your point without that.

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            10 months ago

            It’s like asking why they run trains every day because you personally don’t use the train any day other than on Wednesdays. It smacks of main character syndrome.

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              10 months ago

              No.

              It would be like asking why do people need a train every ten minutes Vs half an hour on an otherwise quiet route when putting it on every ten minutes is costing way too much money.

              It smacks of main character syndrome.

              I’m sorry, but is it not possible to ask a simple question without people resorting to insults. Even if they’re wrong in their assumptions you could have just said that rather than calling them “mad”.

              I just don’t understand why you feel the need to be aggressive and name calling about it 🤷.

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                10 months ago

                “Too much money” is subjective. A train running every 10 minutes means it is convenient for everyone because if they are a couple minutes late they can catch the next one while every half hour means missing one is extremely inconvenient. Shared costs make convenience affordable for everyone.

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                  10 months ago

                  Then we should have trains every 30 seconds and postal deliveries twice a day seven days a week and everyone should share the cost of this?

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                    10 months ago

                    Do you know how much roads cost? We should just tear up 2/3 of roads to reduce maintenance costs just like with removing 2/3 of public transit since roads are too expensive. Roads aren’t even profitable!