Public Support Postal Workers Says Newsnight Poll

Twice as many people sympathise with the Postal Workers rather than the Royal Mail management in the postal dispute

Half of those surveyed (50%) sympathised with the postal workers and the Unions as opposed to the Royal Mail management (25%) according to an opinion poll carried out by ComRes for BBC Two's Newsnight.

However, the vast majority of people do not think that the Royal Mail should be privatised (68%), with only 22% thinking that it should be.

Asked how long they thought the Royal Mail will continue as the sole provider of door to door delivery, more than half (56%) think that they will continue as the sole provider for less than five years.  Around one in ten (13%) think they’ll last less than a year.

The image of the friendly neighbourhood postie seems long gone, as only one in seven people know the name of their postman (14%) and, broken down across the country, this is just 1 in 25 (4%) in the South East.

The results are taken from a telephone poll conducted by ComRes amongst a nationally representative sample of 844 GB adults aged 18+ between 21st and 22nd October 2009.  Data were weighted to be demographically representative of all GB adults. 

ComRes is a member of the British Polling Council

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