Post Office a ‘dead duck’ and should be sold to Amazon for £1, Alan Bates tells MPs
The the culture’s always been post office hasn’t changed it’s been the same for donkey years it will not change and you cannot change it my personal view about post office is it’s a dead duck and it has been for years and it’s going to be a money pck for the taxpayer for
Years to come and you should sell it to someone like Amazon for a pound get really good contracts for all the serving sub postmasters and within a few years you’ll have one of the best networks around radical proposal and not one I’m sure that not one I’m sure that
Many of our constituents would be comfortable with
The former post office operators giving evidence to the business committee said there was a problem with the whole culture at the Post Office.
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Alan Bates, founder of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance and the person whose story formed the basis of the ITV drama that turbocharged political interest in the scandal, said the Post Office was a ‘dead duck’ and had been for years. ‘You should sell it to someone like Amazon for a pound, get really good contracts for all the serving subpostmasters. And within a few years you’d have one of the best networks around.’
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28 comments
I admire the man, but this statement is a stretch. I was never more sure, better devil you know.
Conservative policy: destroy public services so their voters dislike that service, sell off that public service to their donors and supporters to make money off.
They're thieves.
In ten years we'll have "Postal Fulfilment Centres." What a sick Orwellian joke.
Interesting that Bates names just one company it should be sold to. I wonder why?
BS its worth at least £3.50
How about ban all the foreign companies from having any rights over the post at all and the post office deal with all and every delivery of any kind.
Name me one thing in this country that got better after being privatised.
Royal Mail? No.
Railways? No.
BT? No.
British Gas? No.
Yeah because privastation has worked so well for the UK
When you put people in charge of any organization in which they have not actually done the job, and the Post Office is but one example of this, there are many others. This is what you get, incompetence on a massive scale. The people who actual do the job are the only ones that should be in charge,full stop.
Amazon do a better job than the post office it’s not fault of worker just management
He said sell to someone Like Amazon
Amazon 😂😂
Amazon would, depressingly, probably make a better job of it.
£2 I buy
The alternative of course is to watch millions get wasted by incompetent Post Office management and meddling governments for the next few decades.
The post office was sold off and it is finished
No
Be anothet tv drama Mr Bates v Amazon.
SILO
Cannot trust a word they say.
The post office doesn't need to be profitable, it's tax payer subsidised postage, which stops comoanies like amazon and ups, fedex, etc. profiteering and hiking up the price
Look at what is going on with food/supermarkets. There's lots of competition but they still managed to profiteer and hike prices
Don’t you dare!
Why don’t you ask your constituents.
What a disgusting mess this country is in these days. Just ABSYMAL self-serving senior management. Taxpayers getting the bill to support the abused.
I want to see protecutions and imprisonment for Paula Vennells and others culpable.
Sell Alan Bates to Amazon for £1
Give back the Post Office it's postal monopoly again
Suddenly Alan Bates becomes an enemy … perhaps he’s onto some thing and would save the tax payers billions… and yes the service would be better as it’s dire now
Someone is on Amazon's payroll