Yes, living is cheap in the good old US of A.
But don't get sick, or become unemployed, or let an ambulance take you to a hospital tha's not part of your insurance plan ... if you live you'll certainly regret it lol.
But as far as UK Royal Mail is concerned, their parcel service is making quite a tidy profit.
The subsidies people talk about were the UK govt's attempt to fatten the cow pre-privatisation and also to prop up the letter business and local post offices.
They have the same problems as AP with letters being the big drain and parcels doing quite well.
It would seem that Royal Mail are much better at negotiating international cartage rates than our lot.
It also seems as though they have taken a different approach to parcels business.
They export in bulk at a reduced margin and use the foreign delivery service (read Aus Post) to pick up the costs.
I heard from someone with an AP connection that the Granville facility in Sydney handles on average 7 x 40' conatiners of foreign parcels daily.
Ap get something like $1.48 per parcel to deliver and that's what we subsidise with our parcel rates.
