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Are you telling me that refusing to distribute mail is legal in Sweden?

In most, if not all EU countries that would not be on several levels as per my previous comment.

So please at least try to write something substantive...

Edit:

In fact it looks like this is indeed a breach of at least EU law:

"The universal service obligation (USO) is the core of the Postal Services Directive (97/67/EC, amended by Directives 2002/39/EC and 2008/6/EC). This is the requirement that letters and parcels should be delivered to each home or business premises, on 5 days each week, throughout each EU country (with exemptions)."


PostNord is prevented from fulfilling this obligation by the lawful strike carried out by workers. The right to strike would be practically meaningless if employers could just sidestep it by replacing strikers with non-unionized workers, so the laws have been constructed to prevent this.

Think of it as force majeure.


It's called “civil disobedience” and sometimes it's the only way for people to leverage some sort of power.


Do you really believe that a couple of sentences summarize accurately and completely three different EU directives? Have you checked them all to be sure that industrial action isn't covered by an exception? I doubt it.


https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/27/sweden-sides-with-tesla-sa...

"Norrköping district court said the agency must find a way to get the plates to Tesla within seven days or pay a fine of 1 million Swedish crowns (~$96,000)."




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