Five successive chief executives shared £15.2m between the delivery group's privatisation in 2013 and the end of its latest financial year in March 2024.
The controversial £3.6billion deal, agreed with billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, would see the postal service fall into foreign ownership for the first time since it was established.
There is no more important transaction at present than the proposed takeover of IDS - owner of the Royal Mail - by the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky.
A Royal Mail postman has been caught scribbling the word 'racists' on Reform UK leaflets before posting them through letterboxes in Greater Manchester.