Royal Mail strikes again?

Well it's been all over the news today and the question is, is anyone going to have any sympathy with Royal Mail Postal workers, especially in these difficult economic times, if they decide to go on strike?

 
 

We are now approaching a time that I have no doubt many retailers have been waiting for with much anticipation and in some cases desperation, I am of course talking about Christmas.  With online sales growing year on year and getting particularly strong around the Xmas period, Royal Mail workers now have online retailers fate in their hands.

 
 

I have a couple of colleagues that run relatively small but successful shops on eBay and they were grumbling the other day to each other about the time it was taking for packages to get through and with some not even turning up at all and the additional costs they were incurring.  There are a suspected 20 million letters/parcels stuck in a back log as result of the local strikes that have been taking place recently,  although Royal Mail claim it is closer to the 6 million mark and this figure is only the result of regional strikes.

 
 

If Royal Mail delivers approximately 95 million items a day what is the potential damage that can be caused to our economy should a national strike take place this side of Christmas? Will it put people off shopping online?

 
 

For full details on this story, visit this link.