European post offices speed towards privatisation
The privatisation of postal services, focus of a watershed election in Japan over economic and social reform, is well underway in Europe under the twin pressures of competition and financing. Many of the objections being raised in Japan have already been aired in Europe, albeit with less dramatic effects.
Opposition, sometimes virulent, continues in some areas as a trend towards the introduction of private finance into what used to be an almost entirely publicly owned and run sector gathers pace.
