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US: Unions say privatizing postal services in Europe have led to reduced services, increased prices, job losses, and cut off rural communities (uniglobalunion.org)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

I’m from Europe and I don’t have any single example of privatisation leading to improvement. Everything went shittier and more expensive due to privatisation. The perfect example is in France with EDF (electricity).