So ‘here we go again’ is the outcry I expect from the public regarding the postal strike.

I am one of the many at my local office that will be having a day off without pay (£55 a day aprox).

So when you see the managers doing our work, ask yourself why are there two or three managers doing one delivery that your normal postie does on his own? Why are two of them going around in vans collecting from boxes, post offices and businesses, when the normal postie is on his own?

When we are given new routes, we are given a print-off of the street map and told ‘that’s it, off you go’, so why will there be two and three managers going out on one-man jobs?

Makes you wonder how many managers we have, and what they actually do when we are working.

And to the likes of J Waldron of Marston, who like to criticise us (he also criticises people making noises in theatres – is this what you do for a living?) why don’t you apply for temporary work at the Royal Mail for Christmas and experience what we have to put up with, then come back and write what your experience was like?

Royal Mail Employee, Oxford Area(name and address witheld on request)