Post Office 'Needs major surgery'
The perilous state of the Post Office was revealed today when the chairman of mail group Consignia said the service needed “major surgery” to survive.
Allan Leighton starkly told a committee of MPs that managers were totally focused on making sure the organisation was still in existence in a few years’ time.
Thousands of jobs are being cut, post offices will close and second deliveries look set to be axed, MPs heard.
Mr Leighton, sitting in shirt sleeves as he addressed the Trade and Industry Select Committee, admitted that morale among staff was “pretty poor” because of the uncertainty over their future.
“The organisation is in a pretty perilous state,” he said. “The business cannot continue to go on as it is. It needs major surgery. Over the next two to three years we have to generate some cash.”
Mr Leighton said he and his management team were focused on making sure the business “existed at all” in the coming years.
