The European Union say's scrap Royal Mail
It was back in 2006 the EU commissioner for the internal market who was then the Irish Charlie McCreevy told Member
State governments across the European Union that they must scrap their monopoly on delivering letters by 2009.
That is the real story behind the Lord Mandelson spin. The report by Richard Hooper describing the current
Royal Mail as "untenable" and that it is under threat without modernisation.