More Royal Mail strike polling

There are two new polls on the postal strike out today. YouGov for Channel 4 actually asked who people blamed for the strike, and it wasn't the government (see yesterday). Blame was pretty evenly distributed between the Royal Mail's management and the CWU -

39% blamed the management, 37% blamed the union, 13% blamed the government.

A second poll by ComRes for Newsnight suggests that, while people might blame the two sides pretty equally, their sympathies are with the workers. Asked who they sympathise with, 25% said the management, 50% said the postal workers, and 16% said neither.

ComRes also asked whether the Royal Mail should be privatised, 22% thought it should, 68% thought it should not. Asked about its future, only 39% of people expected it to still be the sole provider of door-to-door letter delivery in five years time. Finally they asked if people knew the name of their postman - 14% of people saif it they did (this was, incidentally, very skewed by age. Almost a quarter of retired people knew the name of their postman, but only 1% of under 25s did).

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