@fuchsiashock OH BOI! My fav topic! :D

We decided to privatize our entire postal service around 2006 or so... And guess how well THAT went??? :D

Mail within Finland can travel up to some 1300km before reaching it's destination within 30km, because cost-cutting puts an emphasis on centralization.

It's "more expensive" to handle mail locally, so instead they get sent to HUGE sorting facilities, regardless of how far away those might be from the sender and receiver.

Also, Posti Oy (the mail company, which used to be just "Posti", our postal service) CEO once publicly entertained the idea of shifting most of it's operations to Estonia, because labor is cheaper there than in Finland.

Posti Oy is also pretty loud when it comes to attempts at union busti-

*ahem*

"offering incentives to hard workers" during strikes.

I'm probably just scratching the surface here, but privatization of Finland's postal services was a mistake we are seemingly unable to roll back on.

Don't let the same mistake happen to you, folks!

#PostalService #Mail #Finland #Privatization #Posti #PostiOy #Itella

(This is a response to a now deleted toot about privatized public services)

OH BOI! My fav topic! :D

We decided to privatize our entire postal service around 2006 or so... And guess how well THAT went??? :D

Mail within Finland can travel up to some 1300km before reaching it's destination within 30km, because cost-cutting puts an emphasis on centralization.

It's "more expensive" to handle mail locally, so instead they get sent to HUGE sorting facilities, regardless of how far away those might be from the sender and receiver.

Also, Posti Oy (the mail company, which used to be just "Posti", our postal service) CEO once publicly entertained the idea of shifting most of it's operations to Estonia, because labor is cheaper there than in Finland.

Posti Oy is also pretty loud when it comes to attempts at union busti-

*ahem*

"offering incentives to hard workers" during strikes.

I'm probably just scratching the surface here, but privatization of Finland's postal services was a mistake we are seemingly unable to roll back on.

Don't let the same mistake happen to you, folks!

#PostalService #US #Mail #Finland #Privatization #Posti #PostiOy #Itella