Crozier slated.

[POSTMAN]

Royal Mail run by man without a tie
The post office has fallen on hard times, but nothing had prepared us for the discovery that the Royal Mail is run by a man who does not wear a tie.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... a-tie.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

On seeing Adam Crozier, the chief executive of that organisation, take his place with an open-necked shirt before a committee of MPs, our first thought was that by dressing in this scruffy fashion he was betraying the great Victorian institution entrusted to his care.

One always hopes to find a more charitable explanation for a lapse of this kind, and it crossed our mind that Mr Crozier is perhaps unable to afford a tie. But the last time we picked up a parcel from our local sorting office we spotted an angry notice, placed by Mr Crozier's own staff, according to which his emoluments are vast even by the standards of modern fat cats.

Half-way through the proceedings, when MPs were asking Mr Crozier whether he supports the idea of selling off 30 per cent of the Royal Mail to a foreign bidder, Lindsay Hoyle (Lab, Chorley) shouted: "Come on, tell them that Mandy's leaned on you."

Labour MPs are convinced that Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, is orchestrating a campaign to privatise the profitable parts of Royal Mail, while leaving the liabilities in public hands.

It is quite possible that Lord Mandelson has leant on Mr Crozier, but all things considered, we find it more likely that the Business Secretary has attempted to strangle him, with the result that Mr Crozier no longer dares enter the Palace of Westminster with a strip of cloth round his neck.

Mr Crozier warned MPs that unless Royal Mail modernises, "the company will have a real bloody big problem" and will not survive. He also said that "clearly modernisation will involve job losses" and admitted that "some of the things we need to do are not very popular".

But it was hard to understand whether Mr Crozier regards the bringing in of a foreign partner as the only way to modernise the Royal Mail, for as he himself said, "There are always a number of different ways of skinning any cat."

It occurred to us that there are a number of different ways of skinning a fat cat, and that this at least, in these troubled times, would be a very popular form of modernisation.

But the same thought did not appear to occur to Mr Crozier, who was already informing us that Royal Mail "is an organisation that lives in a goldfish bowl", added to which "we are part of a political football".

Mr Crozier used to run the Football Association, and for all we know he may once have kept a goldfish, which he ate on turning into a fat cat. But this rich diet of metaphors could not conceal a certain thinness of content.

Roger Berry (Lab, Kingswood), who in early life was a lecturer in economics at the University of Papua New Guinea, was driven to exclaim, "This isn't good enough", as he tried to establish why the Government is so set on finding a private partner for Royal Mail.

Can it be that Lord Mandelson is using this as a means of getting rid of Mr Crozier and other senior managers who have no idea how to run a post office?

Peter Luff (C, Mid-Worcestershire) had earlier said that the contention that postal services have improved would be considered "laughable" by most normal people. Mr Luff remembered a time when the post "used to come regularly at breakfast time" instead of in the middle of the day: a point which we trust Lord Mandelson and Mr Crozier will bear in mind as they draw up their brilliant plans for modernisation.

[BELIAL]

Karma Adam you should have been more human

[norbert]

Karma Adam you should have been more human

getting a right pasting off the Tory papers :cfo :mfo - the irony is that Crozier used to work for the Torygraph , then he " learnt a lesson in humility " when he should have been sacked for fiddling sales figures

[darth]

he was actually very evasive over total job losses on each stage of modernisation,couldnt give a figure for job losses stating that the union were or would involved on each stage.

if he was britain has talent (the business) he would of been voted off first time.