postal strike

[waider]

The Communications Workers' Union says the drivers were suspended after refusing to deliver mail sorted by senior managers.

Initially I thought, having misread, that this was the original reason for the dispute, but now I guess the drivers were Standing In Solidarity With Their Fellow Union Members or some such. I'm having a hard time feeling sympathy here. Postal service has recently gotten worse; it used be the case that a letter posted on Monday would show up, almost without exception, in Tuesday's post. Now I'm finding that, for example, my DVDRentals returns go in the postbox on Monday morning and don't show up at their destination until Wednesday more often than not. This completely screws up DVDRentals' business model. Is it too much to ask that we have a reliable postal service? Apparently so:

In advertisements taken out in today's national newspapers, the company has requested customers "not to post any mail until further notice in Dublin City and County".