So how long is this bloody strike for?

[DBA_bloke]

I find myself wondering about posties. And what I'm wondering is this...

WTF?

They've got such a cushy number and if someone tries to drag them kicking and screaming into the late 20th century that they are concerned about it? Sod 'em. Give the jobs to the long-term unemployed.

Genius! Pure genius!

Couldn't possibly be that the Mail chiefs, who have often been abroad during the important talks, have an agenda from on-high? No. Silly idea. Never mind.

Once the private firms have stepped into the breach, secured long-term relations with businesses, and the Great British Public have been converted to the "Posties are coonts" philosophy, it'll be deliciously satisfying when all the currently whinging twonks who live in remote areas, or areas simply deemed uneconomical to deliver to, fail to get mail delivered to their doors. I suggest that there'll be several thousands, if not tens of thousands, of, effectively, cut-off folk. Happy days.

Oh, and that's when businesses realize that if they want to deliver goods/invoices to customers in such places (and those places are increasing in number, as the towns and villages fill-up), then they'll have to pay more.

I'm just being silly, though, aren't I? Those bloomin' posties: scum of the Earth; Commies; Luddites; filth; etc., etc., etc.

[Spacecadet]

wouldn't go as far as calling them scum, but i think that the union could be doing more to ensure the survival of the post office and make sure that the posties still have jobs in 5 years.

[DBA_bloke]

wouldn't go as far as calling them scum, but i think that the union could be doing more to ensure the survival of the post office and make sure that the posties still have jobs in 5 years.

Er, that's what they ARE trying to do. No chance. But trying.