THE EDITOR, Sir:
I read with a sense of amazement the newspaper report that the Postmaster General will be seeking to enforce the restrictions under an archaic piece of legislation which restricts private persons from doing mail delivery. Are we living in the 21st Century? Have we heard about legislative reform?
Instead of seeking to update our laws to the relevance of the times within which we operate we seek to entrench them so we can restrict progress? In any event, wouldn't that clause in the legislation be ultra vires the Fair Competition Act and the very tenets of the free market system we claim we espouse? No wonder the rest of the region is fast leaving us behind.
Why is it always the dinosaurs who somehow manage to achieve the positions of power so they can lord it over us to keep us in the dark ages? I would like to suggest to Dr. O'Meally-Nelson that the more appropriate course of action would be for the Postal Corporation to become highly efficient, reliable and cost-effective so that they are the first rather than the last point of reference when companies want to send letters/documents between each other. Obviously that market force recognition is coming into effect by virtue of the fact that the US is sending bulk mail here to be processed.
What would be the advantage in crushing that revenue source? An enlightened CEO might actually see virtue in encouraging and expanding that service. There also would be nothing wrong with setting up a Postal Corporate Delivery Corp to compete with the messengers and being better at that service. "Duh!" as my son would say. Let's get real. Did I hear, "Don't stop the progress"?
I am, etc.,
LELIA HAMILTON
lelhamilton2002@yahoo.co.uk
