Why don't bankers share postie's fate?

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REGARDING the Examiner comment column on the issue of a postman who, while carrying out his work, lost faith with his job and clearly felt he was not valued by his employers at Royal Mail.

Edward Green was brought in front of Kirklees Magistrate court and the magistrates gave him community service and costs.

The Examiner comment states that: “Everyone who works has a degree of trust placed on them by their employers to do the job to which they are paid.”

While one may agree with those comments, it would appear that the employer-employee relationship was not at its best in this case and the working man has paid the ultimate price for his failings by the loss of his job.


The other side of the coin demonstrates over these past years we the public and taxpayer have witnessed the many so-called dozens of trusted employees with proven questionable track records of failure to carry out their job to which they are very highly rewarded – many times above a postie’s salary.

Police, MPs, and bankers failing to “provide a service to others that is less than what is expected.” While a few have fallen on their sword, others have had little or no action taken against them.

We are now also faced with a more serious case of mismanagement by our public employers within the NHS Mid-Stafforshire Trust by what can only be described as a catastrophic failure, not forgetting a further five trusts and rising numbers of 11 to be investigated.

So is this not all the more shocking that people we entrust with these important jobs have not, in the main, been placed before the courts or lost their jobs as in Mr Green’s case.

What separates these highly paid professionals from the same law as Mr Green is that they have let us down badly on a much greater scale.

R D

Mirfield