What is the most effective way to deliver my mail?

[HoreTore]

Well I'm really ignorant on the whole issue then. What I know of the EU is that they tend to increase government control, not force-privatize fundamental government services like mail delivery (and defense later?)

What? The EU hates privatization?

Whatever you're smoking, I'd like some of it.

[KukriKhan]

What? The EU hates privatization?

Whatever you're smoking, I'd like some of it.

So, you see a seeming drive to privatization there. Is that drive motivated, you think, by a need to keep EU-wide taxes relatively down?

[HoreTore]

So, you see a seeming drive to privatization there. Is that drive motivated, you think, by a need to keep EU-wide taxes relatively down?

I think it's motivated by filthy buggers who see an opportunity to enrich themselves, and politicians who are looking for jobs when they retire.[/conspiracy]

Short answer, no. This isn't driven by any real need. This is motivated solely by the belief in the "market above all else". In short, market-liberalism. Idealism at its very worst.

[KukriKhan]

I see. I thought there might be some thinking on the part of the EU hierarchy that if "they" can deliver essential services at no apparent direct extra cost to EU taxpayers (via private companies providing the service(s) on a per-use fee basis) that the EU government could "sell" itself better to its voting constituants - instead of generating more resistance ala France, Denmark, Ireland, etc.

[HoreTore]

I see. I thought there might be some thinking on the part of the EU hierarchy that if "they" can deliver essential services at no apparent direct extra cost to EU taxpayers (via private companies providing the service(s) on a per-use fee basis) that the EU government could "sell" itself better to its voting constituants - instead of generating more resistance ala France, Denmark, Ireland, etc.

We're not a member of either the EU nor do we use the Euro, so I can't see what effect our tax level have on anyone else...

[KukriKhan]

We're not a member of either the EU nor do we use the Euro, so I can't see what effect our tax level have on anyone else...

So, what is your concern with EU postal regulations? They can't tell you what to do anymore than they can tell me, right?

[HoreTore]

So, what is your concern with EU postal regulations? They can't tell you what to do anymore than they can tell me, right?

They can, due to us being a member of the EEA.

Actually, they can't force us, we can veto things. But, since our politicians are dying to enter the EU, and they're the same kind of market fanatics, we adhere to everything.

[Louis VI the Fat]

So, what is your concern with EU postal regulations? They can't tell you what to do anymore than they can tell me, right?

Sure we can tell Norway what to do. Norway follows EU regulation to the letter. Yet it has no control on this regulation (nearly) whatsoever.

This is what you get when a population is too insular and nationalistic to join the EU, yet the political and other elites are too aware of the benefits of EU regulation to esschew the EU. To join would be political suicide, whereas to not follow EU regulation would mean bankruptcy.

Fine with me. We'll keep bossing our colony Norway around until they'll insist on 'no legislation without representation!'