Now I have no idea whether Adam Crozier was any use at all when running the Football Association, or even whether he did anything much there to get his pay. But here is what Wikipedia says about his work in the Post Office...

In November 2007, the Daily Telegraph reported that he had received a 26% pay increase in base pay, taking out £1,256,000 in 2007. His achievements in this year included shrinking the workforce by 45,000, and closing 4,600 post offices, with another 2,500 to follow. The goal of this reduction in workforce and in retail outlets was to increase profitability of the corporation (which had made a profit of £537m in 2004/5, dropping to around £300 million in 2005/6, dropping to £233 million in 2006/7, to the point where the corporation was running a £10 million/annum trading deficit in 2007).

In 2008, the BBC reported that Royal Mail's trading position had worsened dramatically to an annual loss of £279 million a year in financial 2007. Crozier's remuneration almost tripled to £3 million.

And here he is, looking smug...

Now this is the man the Telegraph says has been in hiding for the last month or so.

I can not be the only person around who thinks that putting 45,000 more people on the dole (which must cost us about £140,000,000 a year) and closing 4,600 post offices (which must seriously inconvenience about half the potential customers in the country, and force them to pay out for longer journeys) are not exactly achievements. Oh, but he got a great bonus for it, so all is well.

And, what a surprise! A seriously undermanned Post Office with nowhere near enough offices for customers to post things in makes less money. But it's all for the best, in this best of all possible worlds, because he now gets £3,000,000 a year. So that's alright then.