The ridiculous ongoing strike by Royal Mail workers which is risking lives and livelihoods is easy enough to fix: Simply change to paying the workers by cheque, sent in unmarked envelopes through the mail. I think the strike might end rather more quickly then.

I still don’t understand the aim of the strikes. Every day of disruption takes business away from Royal Mail, and increases the number of redundancies and level of pay-cuts which will be necessary to make the organisation competitive. The strikers are shooting themselves in the foot.

In the meantime, DHL must be celebrating the day they decided to offer their consumer courier service via Staples stores. It’s not cheap, but it works.

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Last posting day announced for Christmas……

Yes, that’s right, you’ve missed it. You should have posted your Christmas cards last week. The current stand-off between Royal Mail, the Communication Workers Union and now the organisers of a number of wildcat walkouts means 21st century Christmas …

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If you want to know what the dispute is about have a look at http://www.royalmailchat.co.uk - a site for postal workers and customers.
But briefly it is mainly about ‘flexibility’ - Royal Mail wants us to work any hours they tell us to regardless of family commitments etc (we do have a life outside of RM), and pension proposals - RM want to change the terms we were promised when we were employed by them, and make us work another 5 years to 65 for a smaller pension.

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How about having knights in suit of armour delivering mail?
Then we could tell bill collectors-”the cheque is in the mall.”

» This comment was received at 22:35 on 11 October 07

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