SIR – I see the Government is determined to privatise the Royal Mail, even offering each worker £2,000-worth of shares.

If it follows the pattern of the other things they’ve privatised, such as the railways and water, the bosses will double their own salaries and for evermore increase prices with a deterioration of services.

Listening to the radio, John Redwood said selling Royal Mail will be as successful as the sell-off of the railways and I just wonder what planet this fellow is on.

By saying privatising the railways was a success with the highest fares in Europe, with people crammed into trains like sardines, the Government invests more money than when the public owned it. The bosses award themselves big bonuses even though most trains run late and fares increase above inflation every year.

How on earth can you call that successful?

It was John Redwood who first introduced the selling off of the utilities, which were owned by the people and were never compensated for the utilities stolen from them.

So now by selling off Royal Mail, taxpayers should be compensated with free shares.

With the shares the Government is offering workers, money will eventually end up in the longest pockets, which will probably be a foreign government taking as much as possible out and putting very little in.

JOHN SHEARON

Worcester