The last post?

Postman Pat and his chums, the Royal Mail's postal workers, have voted, three to one in favour, to take strike action over those old chestnuts  'job security' and 'working conditions'.

The first one of these - job security - is always most amusing. Unions always seem to think that they can best enhance their members' job security by encouraging them to .. err .. not do their jobs for a while. Way to go, fuckwits. That's how to prove how absolutely essential you are: just don't turn up for work.

Already, Amazon, who send out quite a lot of parcels every day, have decided that they'll ask someone else to do the tricky business of delivering them to the customers' houses in the same fucking year as the original order took place.

Dave Ward, deputy general secretary of the CWU, said 'his' Union would give the Royal Mail a "final opportunity" to resolve the dispute over the next 10 days. Ooooohhhhh, get him. Yeah, Royal Mail, its your last chance now.

He added that 'his' members had delivered a "damning verdict on the way the Royal Mail is run. We understand the need for modernisation, but it needs to be done in a way that protects workers"

Protects them from what? From dogs? From rain? Nah. Protects them from working any harder than they want to, more like. Or protects them from losing their jobs, even if their jobs are totally unecessary, because somebody else delivers Amazon's books now.

Dave's not having that. No, no. Something must be done:

"If we don't take a stand now, postal services in the UK will be destroyed forever," he said.

Hang on. Hang the fuck on there, Dave. So, you're saying that if you don't "take a stand" and you don't deliberately fail to deliver a load of post then the service you offer - delivering a load of post - might be 'destroyed forever'? What? What kind of fucking bizarre, Alice-in-wonderland, shit is that?

Just take the fucking letters out of the sack, and put them through the holes in the doors, right?


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