Royal Mail one day Strike 19th December

wullie

So you had the cheek to accept £20 for not doing your job properly? YES

Did you follow the correct procedures about receiving gifts? YES. I spent it before the wife could get hold of it.

frugallass

such a great advert for Royal Mail - no wonder their reputation is going down the plug hole...........fast !

wullie

Well you are all wrong. my customers love me . Why because they never have to collect a parcel or sign for a letter. If they are not in ..well never mind they always get their items. No long trips to the office and waiting for them.. I look after them and they look after me. And if one or two of you showed a bit more respect maybe you'll get looked after too. Yes, i've also cut grass, potted plants, done a bit of shopping for my customers..hope my manager doesn't read this lol

frugallass

wullie wrote: »

Well you are all wrong. my customers love me . Why because they never have to collect a parcel or sign for a letter. If they are not in ..well never mind they always get their items. No long trips to the office and waiting for them.. I look after them and they look after me. And if one or two of you showed a bit more respect maybe you'll get looked after too. Yes, i've also cut grass, potted plants, done a bit of shopping for my customers..hope my manager doesn't read this lol

I hope your manager does read this

How much did you charge for your 'odd jobs'

I don't need 'looking after' by my postie thanks !

custardy

d.edna wrote: »

No


I hope TNT buy you and then run it like a TNT operation then the posties will cry when they are expected to work for money instead of moaning and striking for more of it!

theres progress

Dutch postal company TNT has announced that it welcomes the opportunity to discuss decent labour conditions with the Dutch Cabinet and all parties involved, Dow Jones reported.

Last week the Dutch Cabinet decided not to liberalise the Dutch postal market since it could not establish yet whether socially acceptable labour conditions for the entire postal sector were reached.

TNT emphasizes that the other condition set by the Dutch government for opening the postal market to competition has also not been met and TNT is unable to compete on even terms in Germany and the UK.

In Germany, TNT's court case on minimum wage is still pending.

czarownik

this is a joke!

Shame ther is no competition here....

they would have to think twice.

mazza111

D.Edna i apologise, u didn't mention van drivers in ure previous post.. btw it gives even van drivers extra paperwork when they have to bring something back to the office.

Example: Van driver called to a customer on tuesday, customer said she didn't hear him as she was in shower, called van driver, he drove back up there on the way home from his shift to redeliver the item to the lady (special delivery btw). That's normal practice in our office, i can't speak for others, but believe me we like to get rid of as many packages as possible rather than have them back in the offices, especially some of the smaller offices where we don't have so much room. Maybe we're just blessed with good posties in our office.

Wullie has built up a lovely relationship with his customers it seems, when they trust him to do odd jobs for him. I'm sure ure manager wouldn't mind u doing these things on a voluntary basis outside of work hours :rotfl:

ebsay2000

I have to say our regular Postie is a nice man!

And i trust him 100%

Problems only arise when he's on holiday and we get 'newbies/temps?'

Boy, can you tell the difference!

EbeneezerGoode

I've probably got a biased view here because I've worked for Royal Mail twice as a chrismas casual, but in light of future plans for the company I support any and all strike action 100%. I don't want a privatised Royal Mail, - it will be the beginning of the end for post being delivered to ALL locations in Britain and rural areas will have to travel miles to collect their post - not very enviromentally friendly.

I'm also aware of the changes being made to working practices, working hours, shift patterns, shift allowances, pensions, and everything else management is trying to do. The papers don't report this they only say that the workers just want more money - lazy journalism.

True that it's losing much money, but wasn't it losing money years ago and then turned the situation around before the government decided to allow other companies to take profits away from them?

Privatisation will not achieve anything, its a short term financial injection in return for long term siphoning off of money to shareholders instead of reinvestment in technology. If the government thinks it's a management problem, change the managers, - you don't need privatisation to bring in new management. If they think it's lack of money, give them money, they're quick enough to pay our money to banks to reward huge bonuses and holiday trips for failiure.

The decision to allow other firms to compete is one that I believe should be reversed as it unfair competition, Royal Mail does not have a monopoly but has to behave as one, they still have to deliver everywhere but other companies can pick the most profitable areas. Even government are making things worse by many departments using rival services rather than Royal Mail.

As for the service, yes I've had damaged items in the past - with more sorting done by technology rather than people it's inevitable that machines will jam from time to time (usually because of people sending coins at xmas in normal envelopes). Other compaines will have exactly the same problem. I've never had mail stolen. I can't speak for the all the posties but in the sorting office every single centemeter of the sorting area can be seen by cameras, and there is no way for anyone to know whether a camera is watching them or not. Anyone who attempts to steal can and will get caught. The posties I knew were all honest and trustworthy, of course its possible that some thieves may be employed - that can happen in any business and CRB checks etc are carried out before employment, every possible effort to prevent this is made, and they'd have been made aware that it's RM's policy to use the full extent of the law to prosecute anyone caught stealing.

liam8282

that's not all a postie does is deliver letters

No, they also post red cards through your letterbox because they cannot be bothered carrying a parcel to your door, even though postage has been paid for the item to be delivered to your door, not a sorting office which you have to travel to, to collect your item yourself.

Oh yes and they also strike in the Summer and at Christmas, bit of a coincidence I think?

& yes the strike is about money, as it always is. They either want pay increases, better pensions, they are currently saying it is because so many hundred workers will lose their jobs if they move a sorting centre, doesn't it occur to anybody that if they can simply move a sorting centre and save hundreds of jobs, that these hundreds of workers are getting paid for doing unneccesary work in the first place??

So many excuses, so many complaints. At the end of the day the more the workers complain and strike the quicker it will be sold off and privatised, then there will be no pensions to moan about, no 20% pay increases to strike over..... the sooner the better.