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world's longest postal strike[edit]
How long did the world's longest postal strike last? I would like to research this question. Sphinxmystery (talk)
- The 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike lasted seven weeks. I don't know if that is the longest, but it is the longest in Category:Postal strikes. I have a memory of a very long postal strike in Italy (when the backlog of mail was so massive that they burned it all?) but I haven't been able to find the details.--Shantavira|feed me 16:37, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Shantavira: Apparently in 1974, Italy sold 40 tons of undelivered mail for pulp. I found this in a Google newspaper scan of the July 3, 1974 issue of the Sarasote Helard-Tribune [1], page 10-A. I don't know how to link the specific page. Only partly due to a strike it seems. RudolfRed (talk) 18:06, 25 October 2018 (UTC)