Letter over postmen wrong

I feel that I have to reply to the letter about the postmen being greedy as some of the facts she quoted were wrong.

For a start, the feature she mentioned was on the main news and the postman who was interviewed worked in a London branch for the Royal Mail, who are paid higher wages because of the cost of living being higher in that area.

My husband has worked as a postman for too many years to mention and I can assure all your readers that local postal staff do not pick up anywhere near that amount.

Your reader quotes her husband is lucky if he picks up £16,000 gross - well I am willing to show her my husband's P60 from any year she chooses and she will see that my husband does not earn much over that amount himself.

All our married life I have had to work to help provide us with a car and foreign holidays.

The pension may seem like a good thing but postal staff have to fund this out of their weekly earnings.

To make reference to the job being at the end of the sociologists' skills requirements is an insult to postal staff. I take a very strong view on a person being insulted in this manner.

Some people choose to do a job because they want to, not because they are not worthy of doing anything else.

At this moment in time they are fighting to save their jobs and deliver the service the customer wants.

If they accept this new deal they will actually lose money - would your reader's husband take a pay cut? I doubt it.

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