ment to attack the Post introducing prise.
job for its workers the unwary.
services?
THERE are problems with Post Offlie !! main cause is ine government ? ."
Unlike private prevented bi the governmer:
Tinance as interimene are vital io update ?:!: customer a better au The cash-limits are strangling these = preventing the Post Office providing the si would like to Competition will only make this more resources away from the Posi Or..: further into its modernisation program.::
fair competition private companies will have free reign he Post Office from directly "..r serfers and re-selling to the public Come pipere shoe conner, munications network.
tighter.
once the Telecoms Bill becomes law.
Office monopoly the profitable parts of the Post enterprise.
deteriorating services. wrouen lower wares to work harder to 'compete'.
The only ones who situation to rip-off ordinary customers Hands off the Post Office!
tions Workers (UCW), be tral Area, 70/71 Blackfriars Rd, London SEI Socialist Challenge Post Office Workers' Supplement THE Tory government is putting a Bill through Paris Office. Under the guise 'free competition' into the provisio postal and telephone services, they are trying to hie ¡he profitable parts of the Post Office to privale er.e.
What will be left will become a lame-duck. incapa? oj providing a decent service for ine customer or a cert Giant companies like GEC and IBM are na.?. the wings to feed on the spoils, while the ursoraim.. small-time operators are already selling shoda: ?::
Won't competition mean better compor:e:
But there's nothing wrong with WELL, the competition won't be fair. The P:: will have its hands firmly tied behind its back.
The cash-limits policy and other restrictions.?
manufacturing erraratus to pur onto ine ena of tereprone u..e.
middle-man. buying "re era private companies will be adie: . Hardly fair competition ardamentalit ¡he Post Office has "" crrerttartc...
Whether vou in.
Pensance or Paddington, the Post Office has to proiia a posts and telecoms network to meet your needs.
The private companies are under no such obliga:: They can just dip into the lucrative parts of posts "". telecoms, make a fast buck, and accept no responsie... for the needs of our society as a whole for a deceni con Won't it mean lower prices? AS the Post Office loses profitable services to the pri. sector but retains the obligation to provide a mod: national network, the squeeze on its resources 4:..
The last round of telephone tariff increases » i: : direct result of the cash limits. This will get much » So what can be done about it? THE main Post Office trade unions, the UCW, POEL and CPSA, are united in opposing the attack on the Pos:
We say that the ordinary customer and Post Offic workes we come move o sew merce or rivucor.
Office to private The customer will pay through higher prices, through getting ripped-off by unscrupulous cowboy firms and b.
Post Office : workers will suffer , worse conditions and being forced will profit are the giant Telecoms manufacturers, the banks and firms who want greater choice of apparatus and the rogues who exploit the new You can join with the Post Office trade unions in say. ing to the government and the private manufacturers:
Published by branches of the Union of Communica Post Office Engineering Union (POEU) and Civil And Public Services Association (CPSA) in London Telephone Region — South CenApril 1981 Page i