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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-03 08:42 AM
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UK DUer's: What's your take on the postal strike?
I'll be honest with you, I'm a former postal worker and former CWU member and I do not agree with the strike action. However, I would like to know what the rest of you think.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3234371.stm

The Royal Mail has asked customers in London not to post anything during a spate of unofficial strikes.
The company says it will also progressively seal up post boxes in affected areas of the city as the week goes on to prevent "a massive backlog of letters with nowhere to go".

The industrial action in London began when workers at Greenford, west London, walked out over mail handling arrangements and colleagues in nearby West Ealing, Acton and Kensington took action when a union representative was suspended.

Workers from more than 20 delivery offices have joined the walkout and the action has spread to mail centres in Romford, Essex, Nine Elms, Whitechapel, Paddington, Bromley-by-Bow and Mount Pleasant, which between them process all of London's mail.

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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-03 12:20 PM
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1. Even though it's coming to an end
I still fancy giving this some :kick:
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MrPrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-03 12:52 PM
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2. I worked for the post office
not in the UK...but people there still boycott the postal code.

Good on them...old habits are hard to break.

In Solidarity!!!

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