Don't take this the wrong way, but.....

[Geezer]

http://www.foinews.co.uk/?p=1711


Don't know if this has been posted already...It's from Jan 2012


There has been some chatter in FoI circles on the internet recently about the Royal Mail and their rather imaginative use of the S.43(2) commercial interests exemption.

Here I should declare an interest in that the Royal Mail and me have history.

They obviously feel that as a commercial organisation battling every day to deliver post in competition against other companies that FoI is something of an inconvenience.

But as my mum would say “There’s no point moaning about it”, however, Royal Mail continues to sit in the corner sulking hoping that FoI will go away. I believe the current expression is “Man Up”, and it is time either the chiefs at the Royal Mail, or those in charge of FoI take my mum’s advice and just get on with it.

I’ve written a host of stories on the Royal Mail since FoI came in, almost all of them bad, and almost all of them prised out of the organisation grudgingly.

My catalogue of Royal Mail stories includes how many letters they shred every year because they don’t deliver them, how much they raise from auctioning off items they fail to deliver, how much compensation they pay to customers and how many postmen are fired for stealing.

So recently when trawling through some Parliamentary documents on the web I found a letter from the Royal Mail detailing how many criminal investigations it sets in train every year.

I thought I’d ask them how many had been started in previous years to see if there was a trend and perhaps it might make another story.

Well, imagine how unsurprised I was to get a reply from the Royal Mail saying the information was exempt from disclosure under S.43(2) of the Act. Their letter to me is here.---- http://www.foinews.co.uk/wp-content/upl ... 8NWESG.pdf ---- The best bit was their rationale for the decision which was:

“ We believe the requested information, if disclosed, would be likely to be misconstrued and taken out of context resulting in unfair damage to the reputation of our employees and public perception of Royal Mail.”

Misconstrued! When has that ever been an exemption? I’m sure there are hundreds of people out there who would like to have denied me information on the basis that I might ‘misconstrue’ it, but it’s not allowed.

What about Freedom of Expression? Should the Royal Mail be in charge of some despotic Government’s Department of Information? What about all the people they employ in their press office? What are they being paid for?

Well I’ve already fired off my appeal and I’ve enclosed a copy of the letter that the Royal Mail disclosed to Parliament, which you can see below, which reveals the very information that has been denied me.

I’ll keep you posted.

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[Straight4ward]

He appears to have an axe to grind with RM all right!

My catalogue of Royal Mail stories includes how many letters they shred every year because they don’t deliver them, how much they raise from auctioning off items they fail to deliver, how much compensation they pay to customers and how many postmen are fired for stealing.

I reckon RM, while on extremely dubious moral ground in their refusal to disclose, are none the less right in their assumption that the information would be taken out of context and used to further his personal vendetta.

The following link gives an indication of what to expect.
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[fishtank]

He'd better enjoy himself while it lasts.
A privatised Royal Mail will not even need to make up a lame excuse.

[hubbahubba]

Wonder what the pecentage per worker for theft of mail is,when compared to other delivery firms,TNT DHL HDN etc.I'd have a fiver on it being a bloody site worse than ours!
Some people really ought to get a hobby,maybe he should try stamp collecting?.......

[fishtank]

He obviously has issues with Royal Mail.
Perhaps his mother ran away with the postman...or his father.

[clashcityrocker]

Has anyone told him about the lizards?

[Straight4ward]

Has anyone told him about the lizards?

Now you've done it!

Stand by as this thread becomes hijacked with references to David Icke , lizard conspiracy theories and "green issues (amphibian)".

[Postman Plodd]

Look at the f**ker, that's gotta be make up covering up scales. Didnt you know reptoids occupy places in all seats of power? Maybe the reason he voted against the greenhouse effect thing was that reptiles like the heat?

Spooky, S4W sees the future, or is he busy manipulating the time lines from his base on the dark side of the moon?