Letters: Royal Mail must address staff fears

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I write to take issue with and respond to Mr Paul Kelly, the Edinburgh-based Royal Mail delivery director, who has once again written to the Evening News, this time on July 24 in regard to privatisation.

In essence it seems like Royal Mail’s mouthpiece in our area is at the very least being disingenuous or just straightforwardly toeing some government/management party line in regard to this very important issue.

Mr Kelly tells us that the UK Government has made clear it doesn’t have the money to allocate to Royal Mail ahead of schools and hospitals. Well, let’s get serious about that statement.

I can’t be the only one in the country who fails to see the government rushing to pour money into any school or hospital at this time.

I ask Mr Kelly, where are these schools and hospitals that the government wants to pour money in to. I’m all ears – name them.

To also say, as Mr Kelly does, that other privatisations have been successful and then to quote Rolls-Royce and British Airways as examples strikes me as being disingenuous in the extreme.

I can’t see how the examples used are like for like – few people I know will ever be able to afford a Rolls- Royce and I’ve yet to meet someone who agrees that British Airways is a success story, given the prices to fly and the number of routes it now has from Edinburgh compared with pre-privatisation.

Perhaps we should have asked people if they thought the utility company privatisations were successful.

And therein lies the tale. Is Mr Kelly seriously expecting us to believe that the national service provided currently by Royal Mail – to remind you, a company which has almost 400 years of national heritage, tradition and public service – will remain the same or improve when there is massive public and political opposition to the sale of a company which has increased its profits by about 60 per cent to more than £400 million? And where it would seem that, despite that, the government and the Royal Mail board would have us believe that the company is about to disintegrate and fall apart.

My husband works for this company, he is one of the 96 per cent of the employees who are opposed to this privatisation and I pray he will continue to fight for a better alternative to privatisation.

Vested interests are driving this move to privatise for profit – it really is as simple as that.

It is also worth mentioning that I am writing this, as it would seem that any Royal Mail employee who does not follow the company party line would be disciplined for expressing their view in this way.

Mr Kelly, as a director, may wish to examine this archaic and unacceptable behaviour and allow employees to express their views on the sham that he is promoting.

Mary Wright, Drum Brae Drive, Edinburgh

[Danelectro]

on yer sel' Mary

[edwardo]

no truth comes from RM management never ever

[hans solo]

bet he votes labour though
and he will get a nice we goodbye pressie for all his troubles once were privatised

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