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57 minutes ago, Donald Trumps said:

Each major town on the island should perhaps have a 'Hub' - is the Ramsey Court House one?

Maybe IOMG could assist in funding by putting PO services in the HUB?

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....

14 minutes ago, Kopek said:

Can't do twitter! What did he say???

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

4 minutes ago, Kopek said:

Allows the PO to develop a future stratergy for the future

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.

1 hour ago, John Wright said:

We could, but the question then is “what is the need”. Need will change with the stage of the epidemic. If there’s a spike it will go up, and I understand that 200 is on running the test process twice a day, and that, at a push it could be run three times a day.

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. 

4 minutes ago, John Wright said:

We’ve done 1298 in 21 days since capacity increased to 200

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

2 hours ago, Stu Peters said:

The cost of providing a public service needs to come from the public purse.

Rubbish.

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