People will lose their jobs because large post offices are becoming increasingly irrelevant. It's a shame but it is a fact that with electronic communications including the transfer of monies, there is less need. Smaller post offices still have a place as they often offer other services

I agree but my point is, if they are voluntary redundancies and other workers can be redeployed i.e. offered other positions, and they aren't getting totally shafted on the pension then fine.

But if they are being shafted I support their strike. I'd imagine most of the people affected are on a modest wage

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The post office service is purely what occurs at the counter, as soon as they put what you've given them in a bag, Royal Mail do everything else. Royal Mail collect the mail from post offices (and from post boxes, bypassing the post office)l, process it, move it, process it again and deliver it. The actual process of collecting the mail from the post office is basically what Hermes do with newsagents.

Therefore, if you stick a few spare bodies behind the counter at the 3% of counters that are affected, there will be 0 impact on RM. Especially true given that many of post office counter services e.g. currency exchange have nothing to do with RM.

Post Office have actually had a couple of strikes over the last couple of months and made so little impact no-one even noticed until this one was put on the news.

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I cant recall the last time I sat down & wrote a letter & mailed it. Yet I have probably fired of 10 emails today alone that was the point I was putting across.

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I think you know what I meant? stop splitting hairs for your own ends. People buying a stamp and posting a letter to their granny in Yorkshire is negligible compared to people & e Mail usage.

Pro USA & Israel

Letters and parcels do have to be sent. Privatising mail though good on most counts but also needs to to take into account less profitable less populated hard to reach areas. Private companies should have been made to take on areas of low density/countryside/coastal along with a very profitable city area on the same terms.

Same as broadband/phone private contracts given out should have been written so companies lay cables and provide services to the hardest to reach areas and small villages FIRST then profit from the huge cities last. Not the other way around so they profit for years and still have not linked many villages to decent broadband.