Post Office Strike Next Week.....

[trt]

For 5 days...

[Jackdaw33]

Good. Excuse not to post any cards.

[naomi24]

That's rotten.

[Postdog]

Post office, not royal mail. So cards will go.

[Jackdaw33]

No Post Office, no stamps.

[jourdain2]

Phew!

[Buenchico]

None of the news sites seem to have any details yet but, to the best of my knowledge, the dispute only affects Crown post offices, which make up just a tiny minority of post offices. Sub POs, branch POs and in-store POs will all be totally unaffected.

[fiction-factory]

The Sun says it will affect post though- parcels maybe?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2383814/post-office-staff-to-go-on-five-strike-next-week-that-is-set-to-cause-christmas-post-chaos/

[murraymints]

my cards posted 1st December !!

[ummmm]

Jackdaw...most shops sell stamps.

[EDDIE51]

We have a 'Royal Mail' sorting office with a Public service counter where you can post letters and parcels plus buy stamps.
Anywhere can sell stamps now Jackdaw, Tescos and all the supermarkets sell them, so do Newsagents and 'corner shops'
The Post Office are just shooting themselves in the foot. Most of what they had a monopoly on has gone.They will loose the rest!

[Buenchico]

Now confirmed, across multiple news sites, as affecting Crown post offices only.

[Baldric]

Sack 'em, get someone in willing to do the job!

[Baldric]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38296460

///The Post Office said despite the walkout it would be "business as usual" with "at least" 97% of its 11,600 branches not involved.
Crown Post Offices are the larger branches that are usually located in High Streets.///

Just 3% then, easily replaceable.

[tonyav]

Post Office Strike Next Week.....

For 5 days...


I don't blame them.

[shoota]

Stamp it out I say!

[mazie]

lol Minty...I hope you remembered to put stamps on the rest of them ;o) But thank you xxx

[DaisyNonna]

So how does one know which post office is which?

[tonyav]

The main ones in town, Daisy.

[mikey4444]

Very few Post Offices will be effected by this move. The move away from proper Post Offices, to scruffy corners within other shops has made sure that there are very few Crown offices left. In some areas, there may be miles between any kind of Post Office !

In my local immediate area, we used to have 5 Post Offices, within five mile radius and now have we one. Its in a local "corner shop" where there is always a queue.

As someone has already pointed out, I can buy stamps pretty well anywhere, which will do for the majority of my Xmas cards. But I will still have join that queue to post even slightly more complicated items, due to the labyrinthine new rules applying to thickness and weight.

[ichkeria]

What is a 'crown' post office?