response to letter in West Lothian courier

Dear Sir

Re: Postal dispute

According to your vox pop survey result published last week, it would appear that an overwhelming majority of local residents (i.e. 66%) are against the postal workers’ strike.

I assume no preamble outlining the context of the postal dispute was given by your vox pop team prior to the survey question being asked – the context being the Royal Mail management’s policy of preparing for privatisation by unilaterally imposing stringent work practices on the postal workers contrary to consultation procedures agreed by both sides in 2007.

If indeed it was the case that respondents were asked to venture an opinion without the context of the dispute being given, I suggest the survey result reflects not so much public antipathy towards the postal workers’ cause but more a measure of the respondents’ understandable frustration of being inconvenienced