Mate, not sure if you know, but Royal Mail is a private company. It is not owned by the government. Now don't get me wrong, I believe everyone should get their due working for capitalist scumbags, but their Union still takes the same action as in the by gone days when they were government owned.

I work for a large retailer. I know that senior management gets dat bonusses and what not every year, and us, the menial workers struggle for a pay rise. Should we suddenly strike, I'd be looking for another job tomorrow. We live in a horrible capitalist system and the only parties that will be punished by the RM strikes will be us, the customers and more redundancies for Royal Mail.

Had they done a 2 week long strike in one go I would have been more sympathetic. But this is just fucking around with people depending on their services. And all the posties I know which inlcudes about 5 delivering at my work place never pickets. They always laugh as they have a day off.