Postmen in the storm When new working hours precipitate a job destabilization

Introduction of a noon break, a working day finishing later, end of « fini-parti » practice : postmen working time is upheavaled, inducing a lot of localised social conflicts. This modification materializes and symbolizes a larger change of the work and of the professional group in a background of historical decline of mail volume. Working time raises major issues about the content, the control and the sense of work. Here, the occupational identity is questionned.