Who would have thought that the postal strikes would have brought more business for those doing haulage jobs while causing cash flow problems for many other types of business? These are just two of the outcomes after the fall out from postal strikes during 2013 across the UK, but as the future of the postal service remains unclear after privatisation, what does the future hold? The knock on effect The downside of the first two-day strike left a backlog of over five million postal items that needed transporting from one location to another, and the effect on businesses, particularly those where cash flow was already tight, was severe. Despite businesses having the opportunity to use online banking to send payments for work completed, many companies still use business cheque-books - even though they've given up a cheque-book, at home, for life. The old cliché suggesting that "the cheque is in the post" became true during Liteblue the strike periods, and where haulage jobs needed paying for, money was often tied up within the postal service. Electronic payment The first indication that freight companies need to move towards digital times and online banking is to ensure that checks and payments become streamlined prices, where money is transferred in just a few clicks. There is little doubt that many of those doing haulage jobs will only be accepting this method in the future.