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Our Mail is Being Held Hostage, and We’ll Have to Pay the Ransom!
So why is there all this haggling over the postal strike? Is there any point? Unless the government steps in and finds a way to stop the strike, we’re going to have to at least pay up some form of increase – despite it being more than most other employees on an average salary being offered. All this nonsense is just allowing the post office workers to have time off, mail to be disrupted and at the end of the day, they’ll get some financial reward for interrupting our lives by holding our mail hostage – and who’ll have to pay for it? Why the same people who have been punished by the strikers, the general public who buy stamps because you can guarantee that this is where the additional funds will come from. Despite the ridiculous prices now being quoted for overseas mail, and the slowly but ever increasing postage rates for UK mail, this current strike is going to involve more increases in prices for the products and services the Post Office delivers.
Perhaps it’s time that the Post Office monopoly was seriously looked at so that there’s an alternative the public can use – and then we the people get to say whether or not we think they’re worth more money than they’re currently being paid, because if we don’t, we’ll use the alternative provider!
This post was composed by Joshua Sparkes. Joshua also regularly contributes to the Future email and has written lots of different articles to do with overseas investment property.
