Royal Mail strike cancelled - strike notices are lost -Spoof

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The threatened Royal Mail strike has been called off. The news was given at a press conference held in the Cheam Post Office this morning.

Speaking to journalists, Adam Dozy, the Royal Mail's chief executive, said that unions had no option but to call off the strike.

He said that the rules surrounding notice for strike action says that a strike ballot will take 14 days and management needs a seven-day notice period before any strike action can be taken.

While the ballot was held on time, Mr Dozy confirmed that the notices, which were sent by first class mail, appear to have been lost in the post, and so have subsequently missed the seven-day deadline.

Mr Dozy said that it is vitally important that people requiring guaranteed delivery of their postal items should use next-day recorded delivery, something the union had plainly not done.

It was not the responsibility of Royal Mail that the strike notices were lost in the post.

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Royal Mail workers are to stage a day of industrial action this Friday. Union leaders have said that they have been forced into taking action. "It's the last thing any Union leader wants to do" said Charlie Trotsky "but our hands are tied. We have come up against bullying managers and spineless ministers. Our members want this action."

The claim that the strike was supported by a majority of the workforce was challenged by Adam Crozier, the man in charge of the Royal Mail. "Only 2% of the workforce returned the ballot." The union now thinks that organising a postal ballot was a mistake, as a vast number of ballots have remained undelivered.

On Friday the union will release 100 balloons. They will then deliver letters of protest to Crozier and Lord Mandelson, in something of a busman's holiday. Lord Mandelson said "A strike is a worrying thing, but at least I'll still be getting a mail through my box."

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