Striking while the weather is cold

There is no need to wait for the new series of ‘Ashes to Ashes’ to be transported back in time, you only have to turn on the TV or open the newspaper and here the union rhetoric about need for imminent postal strikes in order to get a taste of the 1970’s. Unfortunately, it looks like nothing else will be transported, particularly not letters or Christmas cards.

Although inconvenient to the majority, it can be a matter of sink or swim for some families and smaller businesses that rely on receiving or sending payments and products by post. Amazon has already made plans to withdraw their business from Royal Mail, Argos and eBay are set to follow suit, and according Post-Switch thirty of the Royal Mail’s largest clients are seriously considering jumping ship, as the general consensus is the service is no longer viable. It can only be a matter of time before we all consider alternative methods of postage that can be relied upon. We could write to complain but who would deliver the letter?