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world's longest postal strike

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)

:: {{ReplyTo|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 [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=A7-hzOuI2KQC&dat=19740703&printsec=frontpage&hl=en], 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)