Are there any postal workers here?

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Joined: 29 Sep 06
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A quick question - are there any postal workers who use this forum?

We and some other anarchists were involved in supporting postal workers during the strike at the end of 2006. (Some @s or radical unionists work there too and were instrumental in the strike.) For months postal workers have been discussing here, where there are hundreds of posts:
http://cia.bzzz.net/poczta_polska_wciaz_wyzyskuje_i_dyskryminuje_nie_realizuje_porozumien_strajkowych

We launched a forum and now another page:
http://poczta-polska.zsp.net.pl/

Basically they are looking to organize a strike and are working out postulates.

I was thinking it might be nice if anybody esle is working in that branch, to do some small interviews with people in other countries - for example work conditions, ways of organizing, shit to look out for, ways to sabotage.... I would translate these into Polish for an article for that page. Send me a PM.

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utter from postverk - google them - posts here sometimes, ditto edmontonwobby, er Melmouth or something similar is a UK postie, as is tony and someone else i can't remember their name...

check out www.royalmailchat.co.uk - loads of radicalish postal workers there

Joined: 22 Sep 06
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There's Forty Twenty? He's a postie.
all the best.
gregg.

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Swedish blog by radical postal workers:
http://www.postverk.blogspot.com/

I can forward questions if you want.

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Thanks!

Joined: 27 Mar 07
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I'm a postie, but I get the feeling I'm not the type of postie you're looking for.

Indeed.

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EdmontonWobbly is also a postie.

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Sounds interesting. I'm a postalworker, ... I´m involved in Postverket aswell, that is the swedish postalworkers project about experience around postalwork, the struggle and the missery. I'm up for questions and I´m sure other people in our "group" are as well. I worked four years at the sorting terminal but my comrades are both carriers and terminal workers. So just shoot.

It would be interesting to read the material you have and the material you collect. That is texts in english, I don't read polish...

By the way. We hope to get some of our material translated in to english.

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There is a story about sabotage at a sorting terminal at prole.info (http://www.prole.info/articles/sabotageinamerica.html), under Mail Handler Judi.

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WSM has postal worker/s - wsm_ireland@yahoo.com

Joined: 27 Mar 07
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Yes. EW and I work together; excepting the fact that he drives, and I schelp.

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Yeah if you wanna talk to me I'm totally open, just PM me and I'll give you an email address, there are two other IWW postal workers in Edmonton as well, and probably about ten in Canada total.