Should the Royal Mail be part-privatised?

The Post Office started going downhill when the GPO was dis-banded. It have never been the same since.

As a posty myself i would like to thank the few people posting on this topic. There's a few plums on here thinking that by privatising Royal Mail that everything will be sorted. Forget it. You'll get all the TNT, UK MAIL and any other company picking all the cities. All where the big money is. While Royal Mail will still be delivering to every corner of the country. Can you honestly see any other company delivering to the highlands of Scotland with maybe 1 letter for each farm. Cant see it somehow. As for the halfwit living at number 10 Downing St. How can you actuallty invest money in to Royal Mail but then tell their rivals that Royal Mail will deliver your mail for half the cost. Mail which Royal Mail had the contract for anyway. Its just idiotic. As for these people who are backing privatisation. Remember this. Once Royal Mail is gone, its gone. Then when you have to pick your mail up from a collection point in your town or city you may just realise how valuable your posty is. Not one posty is against modernisation or anything else. We just want a fair crack. We're out in all weathers trying to do a good job in each and every community.

They already started to dabble with the idea of part privatisation a long time ago when the Royal Mail split up the various parts of the business and other organisations allowed to take control ie the catering is in partnership with compass catering etc so in fairness they have already proved that a section of the royal mail can succesfuly be handed over to another company, I just think they are ready to roll out the programme out to the rest of the business .

If Royal Mail had a level playing field they would be making money, what with the regulator screwing them to the floor and Roal Mail taking a 14 year pension holiday no wonder its going pear shaped. Mandelson and Brown should be shot they are so out of touch its unreal continually ignoring the wishes of the people in this country,next election can't come soon enough !!

If our leaders and managers cant produce the goods then they should consider thier positions.
Our mps should be taking redundency they are not working for Britain but every other country but ours.