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Letters Lessons learned A few days ago I realised that I had forgotten to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the great Post Office strike of 1971. I joined the Post Office in January 1970 and I usually had three shifts: mornings starting at around 5am for a delivery round, afternoons in the bag-cleaning room, and a night shift on parcels. In those days the Post Office comprised of letters, parcels and counter services, as well as telecommunications - though my own area of work was letters and pa...

FEBRUARY 15 1971 was United Kingdom Decimalisation Day: no longer were there 12 pennies to a shilling, half-crowns or 240 pennies to the pound.  That day, 50 years ago, was also just over halfway through the greatest strike this country had seen since the General Strike of 1926: the 44-day national strike of 200,000 Post Office workers. Telegraphists, telephonists, Post Office counter clerks, cleaners, postmen (170,000 of them!) and PHGs (postmen higher grade), members of the Union of Post Off...

OUR newspaper’s front pages of January, 50 years ago, were dominated by one story – the postal workers’ strike. It was Britain’s first national postal strike, prompted by a dispute over pay rises, and it lasted for seven weeks, overlapping with the introduction of decimalisation in the UK. (That’s a subject that is still sore for many Times Past readers – get in touch and share your memories of going decimal!) It was January 1971 when the postal workers walked out. The Eve...

Washington starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to "the five." ♪ ♪ >> dana: almost a dozen post office workers are upset, all the post office workers are upset over a mandate requiring the agency with benefit 25 years in advance. a dozen of them four-day hunger strike to protest the upfront payment. take a look. >> people think about hunger strikes they think about gandhi strikes on behalf of untouchables. mandela striking on prison conditions. where does your hunger strike match up in pantheon ...

And grapevine rising star in the g.o.p. defected. "special report" from washington starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to "the five." ♪ ♪ >> dana: almost a dozen post office workers are upset, all the post office workers are upset over a mandate requiring the agency with benefit 25 years in advance. a dozen of them launched a four-day hunger strike to protest the upfront payment. take a look. >> people think about hunger strikes they think about gandhi strikes on behalf of untouchables. mandela...