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Compass have commissioned a poll from YouGov asking about the postal strike. 60% of respondents agreed with the suggestion that the government should set up an independent review into how the Royal Mail should be modernised, 55% thought Lord Mandleson should be more involved in solving the stand off and 55% said that the government should force the unions and management to go to ACAS.

The Guardian reports this as putting "blame on government". Unless there are other questions that haven't specifically been mentioned, it doesn't. It says people would like the government to be more active in trying to solve it. The polls conspicuously doesn't ask who is to blame, or whether the public think postal workers are right to strike.

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