So the Royal Mail is striking again. Unsurprising. The royal mail striking on a Friday and a Monday is also … unsurprising! It would seem that most strikes (could be my biased memory cells of course) seem to happen on a Friday or a Monday.
Not often is there a strike on a Tuesday for instance….
If the tube goes on strike – rarely in winter, often in summer… well unless it is just before Christmas…. which is of course the popular time for some Airport unions to go on strike…. given the high number of travellers at this time it is certainly the optimal time for baggage handlers to down tools.
I must say the predictability of these unions to go on strike be it Christmas, summer or on a Friday does little for the small amount of sympathy I can muster to their cause. And I just don’t understand how they think inconveniencing the customer is going to galvanise us into supporting their demands. Hospitals that hugely dependent on the post to remind patients of appointments are having enormous problems, patients are missing appointments…… hard to imagine much sympathy there!
At home I haven’t really noticed that I don’t get post regularly. The internet has meant I can pay bills, communicate without the need for a stamp (which I can only ever by between 9-12 on a Saturday).
So really maybe it is time to change the Royal Mail. Get rid of the two class of stamps (this still amazes me! Only the UK could have a classiest post system), nobody really needs post on a Saturday, for those that are tech savvy switch to email bills (saves paper which has got to be good) ….. so if you haven’t already guessed the strike next week is going to have little or no effect on me, nor does it make me feel great sympathy for the workers, and if they are not careful the customers for whom they are claiming to help will have find alternative means of communication which lead to the redundancy of the very institution they are claiming to save.
