One year at Postwatch
It is exactly a year ago today that I started at Postwatch, the consumer watchdog for postal services, where I am the Chairman of the Greater London Region and a member of the national Council. Coincidentally I spent all today at Postwatch Headquarters, next to Victoria station in central London, where I chaired two meetings.
The morning meeting was a Greater London Region workshop with local authority representatives. The main items discussed were the Government’s plans to have 2,500 post offices closed between summer 2007 and the end of 2008 and Royal Mail’s proposals to introduce zonal pricing for its bulk mail services. The afternoon meeting was with the Royal National Institute for the Blind and Talking Newspapers to review Royal Mail’s service for the blind and partially sighted.
The Government is planning to merge Postwatch with Energywatch and the National Consumer Council, so I should just manage one more year at Postwatch before it disappears.