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Are you seriously suggesting they put Ramsey post office back into Ramsey courthouse? How would that save money?

An MHK talking sense. I better lie down. The shock is too much....

Just follow the link, but here it is... I’ve just seen this report from the economic policy review committee - they only took evidence from the Post Office, so it’s unsurprising their recommendations are particularly one sided! Hoping Tynwald take the sensible route on this one - more monopolies surely isn’t healthy

They already have a 5 year strategy: https://www.iompost.com/about/five-year-strategy/ Quote: "IOMPO wants to remain self-funding and does not want to be subsidised by the taxpayer, taking resources from other vital services." Giving them a monopoly for another class of delivery (in addition to letters) is an indirect subsidy that will be paid by local residents. As their strategy states "The cost of IOMPO's pension scheme is also increasing and is not sustainable in its current form and therefore needs to be addressed." They need to fix this if they are to be the sustainable operation they aspire to be.

Testing more people would provide more information about the prevalence of the virus in the general population. More information would allow the government to make better informed decisions.

An average of about 62 per day or 31% of testing capacity. We could be testing 3 times more people with current capacity.

Rubbish. Not even correct in the case of Manx Radio since part of their income comes from adverts.