POST OFFICE RUN BY "AMATEURS"
WASTE OF MILLIONS ALLEGED Viscount Wolmer, who was Assistant Postmaster-General from 1924 to 1929, writing in ‘ Lloyd’s Bank Monthly Review ’ on ‘ Post Office Reform,’ states: “ A great business is being run by amateurs in business. It is organised, not as a business, but as a Government department. There is a lack of collaboration, touch with the public, and of professional knowledge. The result is that many millions of the taxpayers’ money have been, and are being, wasted; that the business is stagnant where it ought to he developing; that the whole commercial efficiency of the country is thereby impaired ; and that the staff suffers, as it does in all businesses that are mismanaged.” “ The cause,” he says, “ is that the Post Office still retains, roughly speaking, the brganisation which it assumed about the year 1855.” The remedy, it is suggested, is a public utility company, holding a monopoly on “ gas company terms.” The State could be a large shareholder, as it is of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and of the Suez Canal. Something could be established in the nature of a “ consumers’ council,” composed of, say, fifty members of Parliament, whose duty it would be to ventilate local grievances.
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Evening Star, Issue 20994, 7 January 1932, Page 6
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204POST OFFICE RUN BY "AMATEURS" Evening Star, Issue 20994, 7 January 1932, Page 6
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