WITH reference to recent reports of a deteriorating post service, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't post workers' union CWU warn that the latest round of cost-cutting and the move to single delivery would have exactly this effect?

Royal Mail management dismissed this as scaremongering, so what do they have to say for themselves now?

My real worry is that post workers will wrongly get the blame, and our privatisation-obsessed Government will leap on this as a chance to sell off yet another public service.

It's the same trick as was pulled with the railways, and we're still paying for that. Let's not let our post service go the same way.

Ben Drake,

Danum Road,

Fulford,

York.

Updated: 10:48 Friday, May 21, 2004