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And if there is public protest about delivery prices increasing the government won't order the board to stop it and pretend to forget profitability?
by grotorea 3y ago
And if there is public protest about delivery prices increasing the government won't order the board to stop it and pretend to forget profitability?
- kwhitefoot 3y agoMost likely not. The Scandinavian countries are capitalist democracies not dictatorships. Of course if it gets out of hand then the state will take action but anything beyond what any owner of a company could do would invite challenges in the courts. What governments have done here is to deregulate the postal services to a fairly large degree so that there is genuine competition at least for parcels. I can send parcels using three different services here in Norway: Posten (the former royal mail, now a state owned company), Helthjem a company owned by a bi online trading site and media company (a bit like eBay), and the now infamous Swedish-Danish PostNord. If one of them puts up the prices the others will just get more business. The liberalisation of postal services is also required by an EU directive.
- yreg 3y ago> The Scandinavian countries are capitalist democracies not dictatorships. Appointing a new CEO of a state-owned company and telling him what to do is hardly a 'dictatorship'. Maybe if it was a public broadcaster and the government made editorial decisions. My country also has a national Post Office which is a joint stock company and the state 'only' owns all of the shares. It is still definitely a public institution.
- yetanother12345 3y agoLOL. But you're excused. In Denmark the government just took away all subsidies to the PostNord company. Prices will double next year, and some areas will not be served at all. Mind you there is no alternative for common mail, only for parcel delivery.