Searches for alternative couriers to Royal Mail dramatically increase

As the latest talks between Royal Mail's management and the Communication Workers Union to stop the nationwide 24 hour strike planned for Thursday and Friday did not produce any positive resolution, the fear of a real national strike has been widely spread throughout the United Kingdom.

This is most clearly shown by the fact that there have been more and more people searching for alternative couriers as a backup should Royal Mail fail/delay post. The UK's number one search engine, Google, has seen a staggering increase of 46% in the number of searches for the phrase ''courier'' over the past 4 weeks.