We fear there will be little sympathy today for the legions of striking postal workers.
It is true their actions will mean no weekend post and chaos next week as the service struggles to catch up.
The strike means grandma will not be able to receive her birthday card, businesses lose out on revenue and important documents sit in a sorting office somewhere.
But who do we blame? The unions for calling the strike, or the Government and Royal Mail management for pushing through a modernisation programme?
In truth it is probably six-of-one-and-half-a-dozen-of-the-other.
That will be small comfort to the millions of mail customers who are the truly aggrieved in this dispute.
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