good news for Spoonerites

From today's FEE brief:

UK to Get Postal Competition in 2006
9/21/04
"Royal Mail should face competition in the delivery of all post from 1 January 2006, regulator Postcomm has said.... Royal Mail, which controls 99% of the market, and other postal suppliers welcomed the announcement but unions attacked the move as 'vandalism'." (BBC News, Monday)

But the home of the free is stuck with a government monopoly.

FEE Timely Classic
"Time for the Mail Monopoly to Go" by Scott Esposito