Debt-laden Royal Mail is killing letter deliveries by a thousand cuts

Britain has a thoroughly rotten history of selling its crown jewels to foreign raiders out to make a quick buck. The well-trodden path shames successive governments, City fund managers, and a seemingly never-ending line of senior business figures who put their own personal financial gain and egos above the interests of the companies they lead, and that of Britain. Few countries, if any, have proven so willing to allow swathes of vital infrastructure and commerce to fall under the control …