Your post isn’t late. It’s just been privatised. 400 posties are leaving every week and Royal Mail is on the brink of collapse. We need an emergency summit with the government, and we need it now.

Unless Royal Mail faces up to its self-inflicted recruitment and retention crisis, it is on the brink of collapse. For years, we have had select committees, promises of £500 million improvement plans, a broad array of agreements and threats to improve from Ofcom. Royal Mail is in serious need of a business vision that provides dignified work for employees and quality service for consumers and communities.