Allan Leighton, the chairman of Consignia, formerly known as the Post Office, has come into the Working Lunch studio to answer your questions.

Mr Leighton is under pressure; the business is losing more than a million pounds a day.

Consignia is already proposing to axe 30,000 staff, raise postage charges and cut up to 3,000 urban post offices in a bid to save money.

It's also facing a national strike by members of CWU, the communication workers union, who are fighting for a 5% pay rise rather than the 2.8% on offer.

On top of all that the postal market is being opened up to competition.

Multimillionaire

Mr Leighton is a multimillionaire, and is on the board of at least 10 companies

Last October he added the role of acting chief executive at struggling construction firm Wilson Connolly to a portfolio which already includes BSkyB, Scottish Power and vacuum cleaner maker Dyson.

He is also a chairman of store group Bhs and Lastminute.com and deputy chairman of the firm that owns Leeds United.

In January, he agreed to stand in as chairman at Consignia where he was already a non-executive director.

As if this wasn't enough, he also runs a website, Going Plural, which offers help to those wishing to emulate Mr Leighton's rise from shopkeeper's son to one of Britain's most noted, besides prevalent, businesspeople.