Itellan toimintakulttuurin ongelmaa heijastaa se, että laitos ylipäätään ajautui lakon uhkaan. Ilmeisesti osapuolet pääsivät lopulta yhteisymmärrykseen tilanteen vaatimuksista. Muuten postin jakajat olisivat saattaneet ajautua samanlaiseen tilaan kuin Elannon hevosmiehet, jotka ovat olleet lakossa vuodesta 1956. Kehitys oli tehnyt heidän palveluksensa tarpeettomiksi, ja Postilaitoksenkin on syytä pohtia uusia tapoja tuottaa tarpeellista palvelua. Tarve kuljettaa paperia paikoista toisiin vähenee kiihtyvää tahtia viestintäteknologian kehittyessä. -- Vesa Varhee 3.12.13 Taloussanomat
Pamela Jones 20 August 2013: "The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. Oddly, if everyone did that, leap off the Internet, the world's economy would collapse, I suppose. I can't really hope for that. But for me, the Internet is over... So this is the last Groklaw article. I won't turn on comments. Thank you for all you've done. I will never forget you and our work together. I hope you'll remember me too. I'm sorry I can't overcome these feelings, but I yam what I yam, and I tried, but I can't. "
Goldman Sachs and UBS have been chosen to oversee the planned flotation of the Royal Mail later this year. The stock market listing, the largest UK privatisation in two decades, is expected to value the postal operator at about £3bn. Michael Fallon, the Business minister, insisted "all options" remained open for the Royal Mail. He said: "It is important that we are in a position to move ahead swiftly with our chosen route once we take the final decision.
In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers. Cl