Post Office profit
Sir,—ln his article in “The Press” (November 21) the Post-master-General said that the Post Office was not embarrassed by its ?200M profit and then proceeded to extol the virtues of this massive profit and what “great benefits” it would bring to Post Office customers. In spite of all this he failed to mention one important fact. Over the last six to eight months, the Post Office has been instructing staff to cut back on expenditure and even threats of redundancies were made. Following this massive cuts in overtime were introduced and consequently modernisation and upgrading of telephone systems have slowed down. The reason given for all this has been to “save money.” It has been quite obvious that the Post Office has kept this away from the public eye because it could not justify it in view of its embarrassing profit. It appears that its only reason for these cutbacks is to make an even larger profit in the 1983-84 financial year.—Yours, etc., S. J. HANSEN. November 21, 1983.
Post Office profit
Press, 23 November 1983, Page 16
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