Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "FIRST POST OFFICE LTD, NOW ROYAL MAIL" video.

  1. My dad worked as a postman for about three years, roughly around the same period, in Lancashire. He moved on due to what he described as, “a toxic culture,” using an expression that was new to me at that time, and not one that was a commonplace pejorative as it is now. I didn’t fully understand what he meant and, being rather taciturn, I didn’t get much more out of him. Looking back now, I think I know a great deal more. Congratulations on your success. I don’t doubt you deserved it and more.
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  2. My GOD! OFFCOM!? Are you kidding me!? Aren’t they too busy working on their excuses for why Jacob Reese Mogg gets to break the law on a routine basis, by being a, “news,” anchor and an MP simultaneously, and they don’t respond to ANY of the MULTIPLE complaints they get about it, to look after the postal services too!? This is insane! And it’s probably the reason WHY our postal services have sunk into this quagmire of criminal conspiracy and confusion in the first place! No oversight! No organisation with teeth telling the, “No! You can’t do that!” The system has demonstrably FAILED and the postal services MUST have their own independent regulator! How stupid of me to assume that common sense may have been employed at any stage of the post office’s descent!
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  3. The more we learn, the more dismayed I feel. The duplicity, mismanagement and criminality seems all set to go unpunished. By mixing their responsibilities like this, they have managed to create such an unpickable legal knot that I am reminded of Charles Dickens’s, “Circumlocution Offices.” And I suspect it has all been deliberate. Another plan to promote the private interests of rival businesses, in a similar manner to the stealth privatisation of the Health Service? But now backfiring? The only hope for a remedy that I can see (and it’s one that this corrupt network of clowns will never go for) would be to replace the entire upper tier of management of both The Post Office and Royal Mail, forthwith. Set up a new, independent inquiry, but have it lead by the QC who is willing to take charge of the running of both organisations, with a view to replacing the upper management and harmonising their respective services. That way, the inquiry can be certain that no one can interfere with evidence, or have to battle to get access to evidence (as has been the case in the current inquiry) and that no one with a vested interest in protecting their own reputation has any further access to anything pertinent. They will only be appearing at the inquiry as ex-employees, to defend their records. Meantime, the job of rebuilding the new postal service can continue unhindered. And, while we’re at it, perhaps Kier Starmer can ask, will the tax payers be able to look forward to a reduction in taxes that reflects the reduction in public services? If we’re no longer getting weekend deliveries, we should not have to continue paying for them, surely?
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