Petition against Post Office privatisation delivered to Downiing Street

Postal workers delivering sacks containing about a million signatures opposing plans to privatise 51 per cent of the Royal Mail and Parcelforce to 10 Downing Street yesterday, as a government consultation period on the proposals came to an end. It is the biggest petition collected to date. Post Office chiefs want Michael Heseltine, President of the Board of Trade, to press on with the sale

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