Post Office Workers in the Age of Expansion

... there is no form of outside employment that could fairly and reasonably be compared with ours. But apart from that, we contend that the Postmaster-General has no right to fix his employees wages according to the standard of the open labour market - a standard which is not regulated by the necessities of the workers, but is forced by fierce competition down to the lowest subsistence point. The Postmaster-General has no competition to face. He can fix his own prices, and the public must deal with him whether they like those prices or not. He makes an immense annual profit, and therefore can afford to employ the pick of the working class and pay high wages. (Charles Durrant of the Fawcett Association) 1