POSTMEN: BACK TO THE BAD OLD DAYS
MILLIONS of letters lay uncollected last night as an illegal strike threatened to cripple postal services.
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Left-winger will head postal union
POSTAL workers who have won a reputation as Britain’s most militant employees have lived up to it by electing a left-winger to succeed tough-talking Derek Hodgson as general secretary of the Communication Workers’ Union.
Read MoreNew postal plan to break union power
THE Post Office is planning a new low-cost mail service run with non-union staff as it tries to break worker power.
Read MoreOutlook: Postman private
The Post Office is thinking of asking the new postal regulator if it can have a licence to operate in competition with itself in areas where its own staff cannot be relied on to get the mail through.
Read MoreMuller foresees falling postal charges
Werner Muller, the German minister for the economy, has announced that the 2007 deadline for the ending of Deutsche Post’s monopoly for letter delivery could be shortened under certain conditions.
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