Has Royal Mail got the answer to BT’s pensions problem?

The telecoms firm has a tough plan to tackle an £11bn deficit. But the postal service is thinking rather more creativelyThe last time we heard on these pages from the family of Beatrice Bellman – Maureen Lipman’s carping character Beattie in those old British Telecom advertisements – her tribe was troubled. Henpecked son Melvyn was approaching an extremely well-earned retirement, while grandson Anthony was in the prime of his career, having heroically shrugged off his mem