They are in an uphill battle. Very few of us depend on the mail to receive cheques, pay bills etc. A Xmas card from Granny may be delayed but most of us can live with that.
Postal Strike
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They are in an uphill battle. Very few of us depend on the mail to receive cheques, pay bills etc. A Xmas card from Granny may be delayed but most of us can live with that.
While at work we use email where possible, we do have to mail out items so do use it a lot. Unfortunately any strike will affect our business. Until e-transfers and automatic withdrawals are allowed everywhere in our industry, we are at the mercy of the Post Office. Hopefully, that will change in the near future. Time to catch up with technology, albeit it is out of our control at present.
Of course. They have a government mandate to limit competition.Did you know it is illegal for a courrier to deliver a letter?
My position is that whenever government has a lock on a service the employees should not be permitted to strike.Or, alternatively if government employees in such places as the post office and hospitals can strike then private industry must be permitted to compete.
Letters are delivered all the time by courier. Depends on yer definition of what a letter is.
in fact when the posties go on strike government cheques and other letters are sent by Fedex or other providers.
(and most government cheques anymore are direct deposited, which is why the post office has had to move on from the letter delivery days to the modern reality)
(and most government cheques anymore are direct deposited, which is why the post office has had to move on from the letter delivery days to the modern reality)
Every government cheque I get is direct deposited into my bank except my military pension cheque, which still comes by mail and comes by fedex when the post office is on strike. ( and I coud have my military pension cheque direct deposited if a wanted to trust the Phoenix pay system)