{"id":1393,"date":"2001-09-17T23:19:40","date_gmt":"2001-09-17T22:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2001-09-17T23:19:40","modified_gmt":"2001-09-17T22:19:40","slug":"royal-mail-loses-monopoly-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2001\/09\/17\/royal-mail-loses-monopoly-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mail loses monopoly. A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/business\/newsid_1548000\/1548716.stm\" title=\"BBC\">Royal Mail loses monopoly<\/a>. A good thing? Not sure. If the private sector is allowed to cherry-pick the juiciest parts of the mail delivery industry, will that mean that rural areas, for example, will receive a poorer service? Surely it would be better to allow the Royal Mail to raise capital, and operate more like a true business?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Mail loses monopoly. A good thing? Not sure. If the private sector is allowed to cherry-pick the juiciest parts of the mail delivery industry, will that mean that rural areas, for example, will receive a poorer service? Surely it would be better to allow the Royal Mail to raise capital, and operate more like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}