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These people have no idea what they're picketing about

Another fecking strike has been announced, this time by the Communication Workers Union. The union has accused Royal Mail of cutting employees’ pay and reducing services.

“The current cuts, bullying managers and ever-increasing workloads on a shrinking workforce cannot continue”, said a spokesman for the union, from a barstool in a Wetherspoon’s at 11am. Apparently postal workers, like the postal service itself, hate change of any kind and refuse to move forward with the rest of the world.

Snail mail suffered a 25% decrease in usage over the last decade, in a market where more people are opting to purchase all kinds of goods online and have them delivered by Royal Mail. This spurning is hardly mysterious: waiting for a letter by post is shit, and there are numerous new ways to correspond which don’t warrant discussion here.

The postal workers are not the only layabouts disrupting the daily running of the country for mere coins. Train drivers, lorry drivers, baggage handlers and so on: if they feel like staying home all day to masturbate over Loose Women, we all have to tut and shake our heads at the injustice of a negotiation that ended with them getting a pay rise of only 1% above inflation.

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