Evesham Post Office News Today

Jon Bumphrey, from Evesham Post Office, said a number of people have been wanting to boycott post offices after watching Mr Bates vs The Post…

FIFTY years ago in the spring of 1971, long before the advent of mobile phones, emails and texts, the country’s communications were threatened with chaos when postal staff voted for a national strike. Unable to agree a pay deal with the Post Office, members of the Union of Post Office Workers downed envelopes, parcels and everything else and walked out, bringing the bulk of the UK’s postal services to a complete halt. Fortunately in south Worcestershire a band of rather unlikely heroe...