Service or profit in the Post
Dispatches - Third Class Post, Channel 4 "Third Class Post" promised to be an exposé of everything that is wrong with today's Post Office. We were going to be told just why up to a million letters a month go missing. Much of the real scandal remained unreported. The programme portrayed postal workers as work shy, light-fingered malcontents, too spliff-addled to put the letters in the right holes. The film will come as a gift to all those who wish to accelerate the "liberalisation" of postal services, leading ultimately to the wholesale privatisation of the Post Office. The reporter continually...