It's the 'on the ground' posties I feel sorry for.
Interesting piece here from one such postie on the upcoming Strike. Well worth a read:
www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n18/maya01_.html
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Wed 21 Oct 2009, 23:29,
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www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n18/maya01_.html
one of my bezzie mates is a postie
6 days a week work ain't great
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Wed 21 Oct 2009, 23:30,
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very interesting reading
i'm sure a lot of postmen are like this man. unfortunately, the ones around here seem incapable of reading a name or address correctly, meaning people for 3 streets around are constantly forced to deliver neighbour's mail that has been posted through the wrong letterboxes
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Wed 21 Oct 2009, 23:40,
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Very interesting
Can't help a slight feeling of Hurry-Up Crowe - unemployment being so high, that when workers struck they just all got fired and new people employed. I realise this is a little extreme, but in these days when there are a lot of people who'd be happy to have ANY form of income, a fair bit of it comes across as petty whining..
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Wed 21 Oct 2009, 23:48,
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I cannot
endorse this... Without people standing up for their right to work decent hours for decent pay then we'd still be in the 19th Century and getting chucked into workhouses if we didn't work every hour we were able. People need to stand up against the uber-capitalist approach to business. People matter... People are the ONLY thing that matters when it comes to this kind of thing... As soon as we forget that we might as well give up and let the Apes take over
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