If workers go on strike are they then paid overtime to catch up with missed work? On Sunday there were quite a few Royal Mail vans driving around my home area - would this be paid as overtime in which case they would more than make up for time lost on strike?
I guess it would depend on how urgent the management was to clear a backlog and what they agreed with the workforce. Working to rule might have problems.
I was shocked to learn that Royal Mail now deliver parcels on a Sunday. I thought that it was Saturday or Monday when I received a parcel last Sunday (I never know what day it is at the best of times).
I don't know if it has anything to do with the strikes, however lately Royal Mail employees have been getting about in Enterprise rental vans.
// Perhaps this [Daily Mail report] answers my question! //
Very unlikely. The DM exists to spread Tory propaganda. And is aimed at the hard of thinking. Feeding tidbits of half truths to the gullible.