Well, we have the scouts as backup. 

Perhaps Royal Mail should try to do what the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company did?  Being a postman is not a skilled job as far as I know.  You collect your bag of swag and walk, absurdly and unfeasably fast now, to people's doors, avoiding rabid dogs, and push the letters through letter boxes.  You even get a company vehicle.  Of sorts.  With so many unemployed, I'm not sure I'd want to be striking if I was so replaceable.

And not even the right doors half the time, if my postie is anything to go by.

I have a great postie.  When he's on holiday, it's dire as I get all sorts from other addresses and mine go missing.  Actually, I say great but he's a bit dubious as far as the rules are concerned as he signs my signed-for deliveries himself and shoves them through my door. 

You're lucky, mine delivers post to us that should go to the other end of the road, it's like Swap Shop after he's delivered the post in our road as people deliver it to the correct addresses and it's not as if the houses are new and newly numbered, don't know what it is with him.