[Flyboy]

They are not striking for the fun of it. This strike will cost each individual employee a considerable amount of money. They are striking because of incompetent management, the threat of privatisation, with the inevitable loss of jobs, worsening antiquated conditions and reduced income.

The cancellation of contracts has nothing to do with strikes. A business he size of Amazon do not make decisions like this on a whim. It is because of the extremely poor service they and their customers get from Royal Mail. The prices go up, the service goes down, because they don't employ enough people to do the jobs that need doing. Since the start of e-commerce, Royal Mail's business should have been thriving. More people than ever were shopping remotely and having goods delivered, but Royal Mail refused to modernise their business to cope. They still rely on out-dated and outmoded practices. They insist on their employees do more work, but refuse to pay them a decent wage to compensate. Meanwhile, their boss, Adam Crozier, rewards himself with more and more money, year on year, proportionately far in excess of what he pays the employees of the company he has been given the job of running.