Far-left French politician Olivier Besancenot and 10 other postal workers have been fined by a French court for holding post office managers against their will during an industrial dispute.
The suicide of a French postal worker has prompted fears about working conditions in the Post Office. A 56-year-old worker killed himself on Saturday in Bouches-du-Rhône, in southeast France.
Hackers claim to have launched attacks on the websites of Mastercard and Switzerland’s PostFinance in reprisal for their decision to stop cash flowing to the WikiLeaks whistleblower site.
France’s post office is often held up to illustrate what’s best and worst about state ownership. But La Poste is about much more than banking and delivering letters.
