So Royal Mail staff are striking.

To quote the Daily Telegraph on 8th October 2009 “TNT, the Dutch postal giant, said it expected to win more major mail contracts in Britain, to add to the deals to delivery British Gas and BT phone bills from Royal Mail. The future of Royal Mail has never looked more uncertain.”

Businesses, included us, are jumping ship and using competitors. This maybe a bit of a hardship at first because it is usually a little more expensive. However, as more use these competitors, economies of scale apply and costs come down. Meaning the Royal Mail lose more and more customers.

The Royal Mail will then not be able to survive on their reduced customer base, resulting in its collapse. Does this ring a bell with anyone? British Leyland springs to my mind.

This is what we find so mind bogglingly stupid! Dear unions and strikers, if you carry on there may be no jobs for you at all in years to come.

It’s not about you, customer is king, and the customers are getting fed up with this and are happily going to take their business elsewhere.

The past two years has seen an economic downturn. Businesses have laid people off. Businesses have ask staff to take a pay freeze or even a pay cut to get them through the rough times, with the foresight that things will recover and the business will still be trading and employing people in the future.

So what makes Royal Mail staff so special? Why should they be immune to such conditions? They actually believe they have a valid argument in striking over this. Well it makes you look like a load of spoiled children, who are throwing your toys out of the pram because you don’t like what the management are trying to do for the good of the Royal Mail.

Life is tough. If your made redundant, or your hours cut, and you don’t like it, get another bloody job with another employer. People are made redundant everyday, it isn’t nice, but it’s a fact of life. Just leave the Royal Mail (please) and grow up, grow some balls, and look for a better job if you don’t like it, and stop making everyone else’s life a misery, just because yours is.

Businesses will fail over these disputes. Possibly ours. Then our staff will have no jobs, where’s their unions? Then if you do decide to go back to work, we won’t be here anymore, like a few other businesses you managed to kill of with your strike. So that’s less customers for you.

Is it possible that you can understand how stupid you are being after reading this? Oh wait, you don’t listen to reason do you. Never mind, I’m off to change all the products we sell to ship via UPS.

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