Workers to defy strikes

Postal services in Bingham are continuing and residents are seeing little disruption, despite strikes across the country.

Two of 27 staff at the Royal Mail Delivery Office, on Moor Lane, Bingham, are expected to strike today and Monday.

Only two workers were on strike on Saturday.

A worker at the Bingham office, who did not want to be named, said services in the Bingham area were as near to normal as they could make it.

He said the general feeling at the Bingham office was that there should not be a strike.

“What we are being asked to do is not unreasonable,” he said.

“In the present climate people are losing their jobs. We don’t want businesses going under because somebody doesn’t want to do a bit more work during the time they are paid.”

Another Bingham worker said: “I imagine people are not striking in Bingham simply because they cannot afford to. They don’t get paid enough to strike.

“Everyone is ecstatic they have got a job. It is a great job and people are wise to that.”

Mr Luke Cobby (27) of Bingham, has been a postman for six years.

He believed many of the issues postal workers across the country were striking about mainly affected the larger delivery offices.

“A lot of the things don’t happen at Bingham. Most people in Bingham are happy with the job,” he said.

A Royal Mail spokesman said they were very grateful to the delivery staff across Nottinghamshire who chose to work on Saturday.

She said: “We are now concentrating on getting mail to our customers as quickly as possible.”

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