British postal workers vote in favor of launching nationwide walkout

LONDON — Workers for Britain’s Royal Mail approved a nationwide strike Thursday after months of rolling regional strikes over pay and job security that have caused a massive backlog of undelivered letters and packages.

British postal workers deciding whether to launch nationwide walkout

LONDON — Britain’s postal workers were deciding Thursday whether to launch a nationwide strike amid disputes over how to best modernize the mail service.

Sacked Lankan origin postman says he has no regrets over his ‘English-only’ stand

LONDON - A Sri Lankan-origin postmaster, who refused to serve non-English speaking customers and was sacked, has said he has no regret over the stand he took.

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  • andreashelo Amazon eyes wander as Royal Mail strike looms: By Kelly Fiveash Get more from this author Online retail giant.. http://bit.ly/7lj5C
  • vickyfrost Interesting piece in the LRB from a postman about the Royal Mail dispute: http://bit.ly/Waj2z
  • lulubell13 Royal Mail workers vote 4 national strike - http://trunc.it/2g9jp They clearly dnt care bout small businesses they r destroying. Selfish.
  • chrisjakins Prints look fantastic! Glad I got them done. Might pay out for a courier next time though, as royal mail obviously like to drop packages!!!
  • Tomwheatcroft Twitter is quite tonight, no posts in 2 hours, do Royal Mail deliver Tweets?
  • trevorwood So has Amazon cancelled their contract with the Royal Mail? Once again news sources can't agree
  • ipaulbrandon ROYAL mail ? Shouldn't bear the name. Striking when so many people are unemployed is a farce and an embarrasment to this country.
  • lawdictionaries No worries re Royal Mail strike ... bring it on... we can all use the parcel monkey instead: http://tinyurl.com/ye7ro34
  • trevorwood Reading: "Amazon denies Royal Mail contract ended - Yahoo! News UK" ( http://bit.ly/AQ61d )
  • trevorwood Reading: "Amazon cancels Royal Mail contract over strike fears - Business News, Business - The Independent" ( http://bit.ly/xzycy )
  • austin_17 thinks twitters on strike like royal mail
  • adembo75 Updated my blog with We are fighting for Royal Mail - guardian.co.uk http://tinyurl.com/ybkegvj
  • wantthelook we're wandering how the Royal Mail results will affect online orders....? good job we use couriers aswell !

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  • lookman @mattbigg The summer London strikes were orchestrated to save the Royal Mail money when most people were on holiday and posting revenue.
  • lookman @mattbigg Why brilliant Royal Mail Workers Vote For National Strike! They have families and bills to pay - a strike is a failure.
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