It has emerged some days ago (pretend this news is hot off the press) that Royal Mail is to sell off the government. Wait, that's not right. High chancellor Vince Cable, a man who sounds like he should be a rippling bicep in Die Hard but looks more like he is willis' uncle, decrees that Royal Mail is to be sold off in shares.

This article is more a case of lost interest rather than genuine ogling. Most people don't care, so defending it isn't very easy and there isn't much to debate unless our post starts turning up with Coca Cola adverts stamped across the envelopes. I doubt most people will be that bothered. The fact of the matter is that royal mail doesn't have much of an actual face. You never really deal with royal mail itself much more than postie arriving at some god awful time while you are still trying to kip. The only time myself, and probably most people get to actually talk to them is when they bring me something nice from the internet, and even then it's very awkward.

The service is sometimes impeccable while at other times totally laughable. 1st post seems to arrive some time before next week, while 2nd class gets thrown in the corner until it grows cobwebs. The only thing that really bothers me about the idea of selling off the Royal Mail is that it will no longer be a service, rather a convenience, for which the boardroom will see putting prices up the only option.

These two factors make defending the post service or even trying to care quite hard. I'm not saying that Royal Mail is the exception because it is publicly owned, but simply because it is the topic in question. That hasn't stopped the news networks from trying to spin up some guff around the story to try and get some media interest. I've seen three separate reports on the same news story, all of which really had nothing new to say than the last.

Personally, I couldn't care less if royal mail does get sold or not. Sorry postman pat but when it boils down to it, the service is pretty crummy and is leaking money, all i can say for certain is it won't be the same having to look at our dowdy old queen on stamps.