A message from Compass  In Case Not Made Compass showed that the Hooper Report was fundamentally flawed! In April they proved that current market conditions meant the Post Office sell off could lose up to £900M for the Treasury. Even under better financial conditions, part privatisation never represented value for money for the tax payer. This win

What should we make of Peter Mandelson's comments about the question of whether to sell off part of the Royal Mail? Peter Mandelson suggested he wants to sell off some of Royal Mail "Frankly, 10 years on, I was surprised this was still an unresolved issue," he tells today's Financial Times. His comments appear to confirm rumours that he will look to sell off a chunk of the Royal Mail, po...

In all the coverage of a possible Labour revolt over Lord Mandelson’s plans to sell off a third of Royal Mail, everyone seems to have forgotten the report from Mandelson's own department last year explaining why our postal service is facing an unprecedented financial crisis. The report made clear that the chief cause of Royal Mail’s huge losses was Britain’s keenness to comp...

Today the postal workers’ union, the CWU, are lobbying parliamant against the partial sell off of the Royal Mail. The government claims it is necessary to sell a one third stake in Royal Mail due to the huge hole in the pension fund, but Royal Mail took an 18 year contributions holiday on employer side

A report into the future of the Royal Mail due out later is expected to call for the service to be part-privatised.

Some day soon – unless the coalition has already lost its bottle – a bill will be introduced to 'part-privatise' Royal Mail. It has to be done. But it will be a tough sell, for four reasons. First, the market for the Royal Mail's product is shrinking. It's a big fish, but its pool is getting smaller. It carries 75 million letters a day, but that's down by 10 mi...

Up to 50,000 postal workers jobs were put at risk yesterday after the unelected Secretary of State for Business Lord Peter Mandelson announced that he plans to sell off parts of the Royal Mail

The chairman of the Commons committee looking into the part-privatisation of the Royal Mail today questioned whether the sell-off would be limited to a 30 per cent stake.

THE government faced anger from Labour MPs and union leaders last night after it was revealed that a bill to sell off part of the Royal Mail is to be introduced on Thursday.

The partial sell-off of Royal Mail is opposed by MPs of all parties, which could spell defeat for the Government, a survey for The Independent has found.