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5 Live Investigates: Royal Mail & Radiotherapy

07/12/2014

Royal Mail & Radiotherapy

BBC Radio 5 Live - 5 Live Investigates, Royal Mail & Radiotherapy

Royal Mail - people who fear for their jobs as rival postal agencies prop up.

Are peoples jobs under threat from rival postal companies? Why are cancer patients being denied a radiotherapy treatment which leading doctors say is cheaper and more effective?

Royal Mail says its traditional job of delivering letters and parcels six days a week to every address in the UK for the same price is under threat. We hear from frontline postmen who fear for their jobs and claim rival postal businesses have an unfair advantage. But business analysts say the Royal Mail needs to be more efficient. And why are cancer patients being denied a radiotherapy treatment which leading doctors say is cheaper and more effective?

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