First of all, our own members. The vast majority of visitors to the CWU site are CWU members, and most of the material on the site is aimed at them. But the site is also a resource for journalists, for MPs, for Ministers, for party activists - for anyone who might care about the future of the Post Office. I chanced to overhear a phone conversation on the day before the publication of the White Paper between a CWU officer and a journalist for one of Britain's leading newspapers. The journalist wanted to know by what time in the morning she could expect to find background material on the White Paper on the union's website.
Serious journalists use the web as an indispensable, daily tool.
For them, the CWU website is already an invaluable resource. Within a very short period of time, the internet has become an indispensable part of the union's arsenal. Using our website intelligently, we are now able to provide immediate, comprehensive, searchable and permanently archived responses to Government policy. And that is only the beginning of what we can do.