Too late to save the PO?

Feb 13 2009

IT is with a great deal of thanks that I read in the Ayrshire Post that MP Brian Donohoe has had a change of heart and has seen the damage that he and the Labour Party have done to the Post Office.

To have voted, some time ago, to give £17 million to TNT to set up an alternative collection and delivery service for postal items to Royal Mail was bad enough, but to allow items collected to be delivered by TNT only if they were cost effective and profitable, I feel was wrong.

The problem with the Labour Party decision to bring in competition, although good, was to allow TNT to deliver only those items on which profit was to be made and to give the loss making mails, at 11p, to Royal Mail to deliver was flawed. How can any business make a profit if government forces it to deliver another company’s loss-making mail? Thank the Lord that our MP now understands business and sees the error of his ways. He, in the article, promises to try to rectify what he and the Labour Party have imposed on the Post Office and the people of the Great Britain.

If you can do this for the people of Great Britain, Brian, we will all owe you a big thank you, however, I think that it is too late and the damage done to a public service, Royal Mail, is irreversible and for this we will suffer.

Arthur Spurling

Dundonald.