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Our strikes got Royal Mail worried. That’s the only reason they’ve agreed to talks. How many times did Allan Leighton and Adam Crozier – bolstered by Gordon Brown – parrot the line that "the offer is the offer"?

Royal Mail management is pushing ahead with the introduction of a change in start times for delivery workers.

When David Morrison, delivery rep at Islington in north London, read in Socialist Worker about a desperate strike by Egyptian postal workers (28 July), he sent a simple note of solidarity to Cairo.

Royal mail management’s offer of negotiations and the CWU union’s decision to call off strikes set for last week has created a wide debate among postal workers’.

Thousands of Post Office counters workers in the big high street post offices went on strike on Friday of last week, and Monday of this week.

During the dispute Royal Mail management have victimised a number of workers. They actively encouraged scab workers to put in complaints against union activists.

Following a meeting between Royal management and the CWU post workers’ union the strikes set for this evening have been suspended.

A group of Socialist Worker supporters in the CWU union met last weekend to discuss the way forward for the crucial dispute that postal workers’ are involved in.

Royal Mail management is pushing ahead with the introduction of a change in start times for delivery workers.

The CWU has called a national demonstration and rally in London on Tuesday 21 August to increase the pressure on management as part of the next round of action.

A clear pattern is emerging of Royal Mail management attempting to use disciplinary procedures to attack CWU union reps.

Royal Mail has been forced to apologise after sending a letter to the managers of sub-post offices warning that they would lose money if they didn’t toe the official line on justifiying post office closures.