Letter: Support Royal Mail workers

LETTER: The Royal Mail is a valuable and essential publicly-owned service with a committed workforce that deserves the public's support.

At the same time as Royal Mail made huge profits and its chief executive Adam Crozier received bonuses of £2.4 million, the workforce have taken the brunt of cutbacks.

These cutbacks correspond with longer delivery rounds and heavier workloads for those who are still employed. Postmen and postwomen are doing more work for no more money.

Shame on the government for this privatisation by the back door and allowing the management to bully the workforce into submission.

We who live in this mainly rural area may feel deprived of our mail at this time but we should realise that by taking industrial action the post office workers are in the frontline at cost to themselves.

They are preserving our right to receive our mail for a reasonable price direct to our homes.

Support the postal workers!

Jacqueline Morrish & Pete Postlethwaite OBE

Bishops Castle