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Royal Mail workers end the strike
by Nina Gotzmannova

Old British movies and TV series have something in common. The main character usually gets the morning post and the evening post and reads them carefully by sipping the first morning tea with milk or later in the evening with cucumber sandwiches. Actually several movie plots were based on the right timing of postal delivery. But the postal service is not that easy as it seems and the Royal Mail, how the name of the national postal service in United Kingdom is, has to employ thousands employees to fulfill the strict quality criteria. But the employees were not that enthusiastic about their work conditions as the general public about their services and they decided to strike. On Monday the Communication Workers Union signed a deal with Royal Mail that will bring postal employees better work conditions. They reached several benefits they were striking for. Several of them are for example increasing of the basic pay, increasing of the overtime pay, final salary pension scheme and more. The postal service stopped only for 48 hours and let the country in chaos of not delivered bills, letters and mostly business letters. In the post offices all over the country is lying over 60 millions undelivered mail items. According to Royal Mail annual report, since March 2005 to March 2006 they delivered 84 million items every working day. That means every of the 60 million UK residents, counting also toddlers and kids up to six years, received at least one letter daily and full third of them received another one. Unfortunately in the report is not a mention whether the most part are bills or private card and letters.

related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20071022/tuk-uk-britain-post-fa6b408_4.html

by Nina Gotzmannova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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