Post Office could be owned by its workers, government says

The Post Office could be turned into an employee-owned business, the government has suggested, as it launched a public consultation over the future of the service.The business, which operates counters or shops in more than 11,500 locations around the country, is fully state-owned and subsidised by the tax payer. Plans for mutualisation have been under discussion for more than a decade, but were sidelined as the…