Now, here comes Michael Dell, vowing to turn his company's low-cost, process-based manufacturing model directly onto both the printing and managed-services businesses.
Crown offices are Post Office branches directly managed by the company - as opposed to locally-run by sub-post offices - mainly based in major High Streets.
Most of the people who work directly on the user-facing parts of Stripe have managed products before and enjoy the process of figuring out how they should work and what they should do.
And my own judgment is that - and being slightly detached from this cos I'm not directly involved in the day to day management of these issues - is that they have been managed as well as any government could have anticipated.