Royal Mail must have a death wish | Comment

Post strikes affected Christmas mail, but no further action is planned for January

ALAMY

Royal Mail is doomed, and the unions are just speeding up its demise (“Last post”, News Review, last week). The service it offers is pitiful. An example: I posted a parcel from Australia on November 28. Tracking information showed it had arrived in the UK on December 1. At the time of writing, January 1, it has still not been delivered to my family.

By contrast, I made a photo book on a UK website on December 26. By December 31 it had been printed, dispatched and delivered by DHL. It shows what can be done by effective organisations.
Lynne Morley, Queensland, Australia

Job destruction
Whatever the complaints about the company, the postmen and women have my sympathy. I was a postman in