Mr Russell wrote:
Regarding the Post Office strikes, I can see that really biting them in the bum, as they will lose out on a lot of profits over the last minute rush to buy stamps and send parcels this week.
Therefore when they ask for more money for the salaries and pensions the head honchos will go "sorry, for some reason your branch made 5% less than last year, well have to close your branch and make you all redundant instead."
I totally agree with you Russ.
However - I honestly don't think the connection between damaging their business (let alone mere revenues and profits, or their prospects as employees) even crosses the minds of most of these people. After all, they've been in public ownership for most of their existence, so "profit" didn't even enter into the equation... Post Office losses have been partially plugged from hundreds of millions each year to "only" tens of millions, but hey, we'll cut our nose to spite our face etc.
If it was up to unions, letters would still be delivered by horse and bloody cart - probably for "Health and Safety reasons to protect our customers"