Postal Workers? Sack 'Em
I'm afraid I don't have much sympathy for the postal workers. Although I blame senior managers for a lack of strategic planning, especially where the coming of the Internet Age is concerned, my experiences with Royal Mail staff, be they drivers, postmen or post office workers, have been pretty negative on the whole.
My honest impression over the years is that these are a surly bunch of unhappy workers who don't really like or respect the company they work for – which, incidentally, is owned by the public. Their van drivers drive like maniacs. As an experienced cyclist I can say without hesitation that Royal Mail drivers are the worst and most dangerous drivers on our roads today.
Sack the lot of 'em.
In any case, there must be other ways in this day and age of making a protest without brutalizing the public. A little imagination and ingenuity go a long way in publicity terms, but instead we have the tired old punishment tactics. This kind of unfair and unwarranted punishment of innocent parties must stop, whether by postal workers or tube workers. It is counter productive in any case.
4 comments:
My Mum sent a second-class letter across the country during the strike and it arrived the next day.
Really? That's odd. My postman sent my Mum across the country during the strike by first class, and she arrived two weeks later.
Oh? Now I see why you were talking about punishment and brutalizing. I didn't understand why not getting junk mail for a few days was punishment. But sending your Mum in the mail is certainly brutal.
Was she damaged much when she arrived?
She was damaged before she was sent, but I don't want to go into that too much. Family stuff, you know.
Was your Mum damaged by the shock of seeing a second class letter arrive the next day? I hope she was sitting down when she found out.
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