Post office strike over EU plan

POST offices across the island will close shop for half an hour today in protest over a European Commission proposal to liberalise the postal market.

The employees’ work stoppage will be carried out between 12.30pm and 1pm and is part of a wider European strike over the Commission’s proposed directive to liberalise postal services on January 1, 2009.

The postal services yesterday apologised for any inconvenience and said they would do everything possible to ensure it served the public without any problems the rest of the time.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.