I am living in Germany, the removal of the German minimum wage in the postage sector resulted in effectively more companies providing post service, but for the end user, the price has not changed at all. <i>But</i> you see a lot of people bringing the mail in nearly destroyed cars, with the look of miserable people. I am all for competition, but in this case, the net benefit for the end users is zero and it created extremely low pay jobs.<p>The competitors of Deutsche Post are now using special structures not to pay the minimum wage to people (they are contractors) and this pushes Deutsche Post to do the same.<p>So, for this case, it was not good. In fact, the people in Germany pushed to get a minimum wage for all employees and the right wing government accepted. It shows you how bad the lack of minimum wage was for the people.