Greetings card 産業 sounds alarm over £3.5bn 王室の Mail 引き継ぎ／買収
The greetings card 産業 has sounded the alarm over the 提案するd £3.5billion foreign 引き継ぎ／買収 of 王室の Mail.
Small 商売／仕事 操作者s are calling for a ‘国家の, reliable, affordable’ service to be 保護するd as 恐れるs 開始する over the 未来 of the 508-year-old 会社／堅い.
王室の Mail owner International 配当s Services last week said it was ‘minded’ to 支援する a £3.5billion 申し込む／申し出 from Czech 億万長者 Daniel Kretinsky.
The 実業家 ? known as the Czech Sphinx ? has until Wednesday next week to （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する a formal 申し込む／申し出 that would 可能にする the company to 落ちる into foreign 手渡すs for the first time since it was 始める，決める up by Henry VIII in 1516.
But the 迎える／歓迎するing Card 協会, which 代表するs more than 500 companies, is calling on 大臣s and regulators to 保護する the service.?
関心s: Small 商売／仕事 操作者s are calling for a ‘国家の, reliable, affordable’ service to be 保護するd as 恐れるs 開始する over the 未来 of the 王室の Mail
They are worried that Kretinsky will 圧力（をかける） ahead with 計画（する）s to 削除する the frequency of second-class 配達／演説／出産s and 引き上げ（る） the price of first-class stamps.
The group also wants to stop 小包 配達／演説／出産s 存在 prioritised over letters and cards and 妨げる 集まり 終結s of 地位，任命する offices.
Cards are the most たびたび（訪れる） form of 地位，任命する, with one in four Britons only using the 郵便の service to send them.
GCA 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Amanda Fergusson said: ‘Our members, and the 顧客s they serve, 推定する／予想する a 郵便の service that’s 国家の, reliable and affordable.?
They’re already nervous that planned regulatory 改革（する） will ignore these basic needs ? and now they 恐れる a を取り引きする new owners that will do nothing to 避ける その上の 削減s in the 質 of 配達／演説／出産 services.
‘Whoever owns 王室の Mail must be held accountable.’
Under its 現在の owners, 王室の Mail has 勧めるd regulators to let it 削減（する） its second-class service from six- day 配達／演説／出産s to every other weekday.
Its boss has said this would give it a ‘fighting chance’ to 上げる 基準s and help it save £300million.
But it could also result in almost 1,000 職業 losses.
Last month the cost of a first class 基準 letter 増加するd 8 per cent to £1.35 while a second-class stamp now costs 85p ? the same price of a first class stamp in 早期に 2022.?
王室の Mail was privatised in 2013 but 最近の years have been 堅い as it has seen its 株 price 急落（する），激減（する）.
IDS ? which also owns a profitable European 小包s 商売／仕事 ? will publish 年次の results tomorrow that are 推定する／予想するd to lay 明らかにする its 悲惨な 業績／成果, with 王室の Mail losing nearly £1million a day.
Kretinsky has been 警告するd he must pass 国家の 安全 実験（する）s and 会合，会う 貿易（する） union 需要・要求するs to 避ける his £3.5billion 引き継ぎ／買収 計画（する）s 存在 scuppered.
He already owns a 27.5 per cent 火刑／賭ける in IDS 同様に as 利益／興味s in football club West Ham and supermarket Sainsbury’s.
