Letter from me to the Adver:

So Peter Mandelson has made his intentions clear. At a time when unemployment is sky rocketing he would like to put tens of thousands of postal workers' jobs at risk with a madcap scheme to part privatise the Royal Mail.

It's hardly surprising the Royal Mail is struggling to make money, and it's got little to do with the internet as any online shopper will vouch for. No wonder - when the Mail's chief competitor, the Dutch private monopoly TNT, has already been gifted the most profitable parts of Royal Mail's business. And no wonder - when for years, successive Tory and Labour governments have been creaming off profits and starving this still vital public service of investment to modernise its systems, pay decent wages to its hard working staff, or properly restructure.
Perhaps the Business Secretary would like to explain just how the current management team, which his government brought in, has run down what was one of the best postal services in the world. A cynic might say a deliberate ploy to pave the way for privatisation. We now have fewer post offices, Sunday service cut, and almost 15 years of idiotic schemes for "improvements."