If you type 'postal strike' into Google, the top two sponsored links are from private couriers offering businesses the chance to avoid the strike and send parcels with them. I would also like to bet they are more reliable than the Royal Mail and in some cases they will be cheaper. It's not just private firms turning to private couriers though. When I renewed my passport earlier this year, my old passport was sent via the Royal Mail and my new one was sent using a private courier. When the Passport Agency feels it cannot trust our postal service, why should anyone else?
The postal service in Hull is variable, to say the least. There are days when nothing arrives and then there's a thud on the mat. If you examine the dates on the post mark, you will see they are all different. There are many occasions when we receive mail for our neighbours and vice-versa, but now the latest wheeze from the Royal Mail to beat the strikes is to hire 30,000 temporary workers. If the existing postmen and women, who are supposed to know their areas like the backs of their hands can't get it right, what confidence can we have in the reliability of the service if our mail is delivered by practically untrained temporary workers?
Postal workers are shooting themselves in the foot by voting for strike action. More and more businesses are turning their backs on the Royal Mail and this trend is going to continue. By taking strike action they are effectively swallowing a cyanide pill. They are turkeys voting for an early Christmas. Unless management and the communication workers union sit around the table and negotiate their way out of this mess, the Royal Mail will have to lay-off thousands of employees as customers turn their backs on them for good.
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