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1979 May 15 - 1980 Jul 4
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/333
Post and Telecommunications (Postal tariff increases; industrial dispute; finances; industrial democracy. Future of the Post Office: British Telecommunications (BT); telecommunications monopoly; postal monopoly) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2010 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 258
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79 Jun 5 Tue Post Office: Lankester minute to MT ("Post Office Dispute at Enfield") [Post Office workers refusing to handle polling cards for EU election] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 2 Mon Post Office: Sanders minute to MT ("Postal Service") [Joseph statement to the Commons on problems in the Post Office] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 13 Fri Post Office: Joseph minute to MT ("Future of the Post Office") ["A major and sustained effort is needed to overcome the totally unsatisfactory situation which exists in the Post Office"] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 18 Wed Post Office: Nott minute to MT ("Future of the Post Office") ["I strongly support [Joseph's] wish to make radical changes in the competitive environment within which the Post Office operates"] [declassified 2010]
79 Jul 19 Thu Post Office: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Future of the Post Office") [Howe supports Joseph's planned reforms] [declassified 2010]
79 Aug 13 Mon Post Office: Joseph minute to MT ("The Post Office") [telephone billing dispute, telecommunications tariff increases, postal deficit 1979/80] [declassified 2010]
79 Aug 14 Tue Post Office: Sanders minute to MT (troubles in the Post Office) [increased telecommunications tariffs] [declassified 2010]
79 Aug 17 Fri Post Office: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("The Post Office") [proposals on increased telecommunications tariffs] [declassified 2010]
79 Aug 24 Fri Post Office: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("The Post Office") [further information on proposals to increase telecommunications tariffs] [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 9 Tue Post Office: Lankester minute to MT ("Post Office Finances") ["very disturbing situation in the Post Office"] [declassified 2010]
79 Oct 25 Thu Post Office: Joseph minute to MT ("Post Office Finances") [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 11 Tue Post Office: Joseph minute to MT ("Industrial Democracy") [ending of Post Office industrial democracy experiment] [declassified 2010]
79 Dec 12 Wed Parliament: Sanders minute to MT ("Statements in the House") [Joseph statement on industrial democracy in the Post Office, Walker on Agricultural Council] [declassified 2010]
80 Apr 16 Wed Post Office: Sanders minute to MT ("Keith Joseph's Statement on the Post Office") [Post Office senior management changes] [declassified 2010]
80 Jun 20 Fri Post Office: Joseph minute to MT ("Postal Monopoly") [review of the Post Office's monopoly for the carriage of letters] [declassified 2010]
80 Jul 1 Tue Post Office: Joseph minute to MT ("Telecommunications Monopoly") [Post Office reform and BT] [declassified 2010]
80 Jul 2 Wed Post Office: Lankester minute to MT ("Postal Monopoly") [Joseph's review of the Post Office's postal monopoly] [declassified 2010]