Royal Mail one day Strike 19th December

mazza111

mookie what a lovely idea, i'm sure he will appreciate it. Hope they are able to find him an indoor job he can do without being offered the sickness redundancy.

frugallass

mookie wrote: »

My regular postie was an absolute star, he's always delivering my freebies, grabbits and ebay stuff and never moans

it's his job - why should he moan?

minnie123

I have got nothing against postmen (although mine never comes until after 1pm) but loads of people are in a sitation where they might be being made redundant due to the social climate at the moment, such is life. So why should these posties strike?

mookie

frugallass wrote: »

it's his job - why should he moan?

even offering to deliver them rather than the van doing it :rolleyes:

Yes its his job to deliver the letters but some parcels he offers to deliver so I get them early rather than coming on the van which drops off later.

You really have it in for post workers dont you! Just because you have problems with your postman does not mean I have to share your views.

I would never do the job they do, out in the cold laden with a big bag full of post to deliver to the moaning public. Yes they get paid to do it, yes they have the option to change jobs but they still deserve to be treated with respect they are working under bosses who make the decisions. They are there to earn a wage.

I worked in a bank for 7 years you can imagine the abuse I got working on the counters, I didnt make the decisions and choices that aggravated the customers and our feedback as staff didnt matter. You cant blame an employee who works so far down the chain that they have no influence to change things.

mookie

mazza111 wrote: »

mookie what a lovely idea, i'm sure he will appreciate it. Hope they are able to find him an indoor job he can do without being offered the sickness redundancy.

At the moment he's pottering about down the sorting office, he's due to retire in the next couple of years but when I saw him when I collected a parcel last week he said its unlikely he'll go back on the round so i guess he'll stay there until he retires now.

Reading this thread has made me appreciate his work more than I already did, I'm going to take him down a christmas card with a little tip in to say thanks.

frugallass

mookie wrote: »

You really have it in for post workers dont you! Just because you have problems with your postman does not mean I have to share your views.

I worked in a bank for 7 years you can imagine the abuse I got working on the counters

Yeah I do have issues with 'some' posties

........ is this a 'be nice to posties' thread?......

No?.......... well then I will keep posting thanks

I never asked you to share my views..........

.................and don't get me started on banks !

melancholly

ok.... point made (repeatedly)

as far as i'm concerned, this thread indicates how we perhaps do need a be nice to posties thread (is it ok to say postman anymore...? has it all gone PC and i've missed it?!). it's christmas.... lets all breathe out and let the vendettas go.........

mazza111

minnie123 wrote: »

I have got nothing against postmen (although mine never comes until after 1pm) but loads of people are in a sitation where they might be being made redundant due to the social climate at the moment, such is life. So why should these posties strike?

Joys of part-time posties and only 1 delivery, so it rather depends where u live as to when u get your mail. Think most of the postie's hours are 24 hrs spread over 5 days, so they start at 9.30 and finish at 1:17 or something ridiculous like that. My street personally doesn't get their mail until after 3pm most days because our lad has a very long duty due to new houses being built and no revisions being made as yet. As for the strike issue, most of the time they have valid points for striking dear, they are either out of a job or they will have to travel for miles to do their job? but as someone already said, strike cancelled so let's not go there again :T

frugallass, carry on with ure objections to 'some' posties dead but don't tar us all with the same brush plz.

melancholly u can call me a postman if u want, but i sit down to pee, my official title is Postperson, hahaha, so prefer postie if u can see my point

liam8282

custardy wrote: »

as someone predicted

Yes me, in post #10

liam8282

The following article gives some information about the strikes in 2007, if any of you posties have forgotten about the 20% pay increases that you wanted:

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article2588213.ece

& before any of you start about the national average wage being £395 a week back then, remember that the current minimum wage is only £5.73 per hour for workers aged 22 and over.

If you say an average working week would be around 35 hours, people on the minimum wage would get £200.55, yet postal workers wanted near enough double that for an unskilled job, let alone the company pensions etc they already have on top of the decent enough wage they already get!

I know the current strike was about moving the sorting centres,

Work from Liverpool will be transferred to a Warrington site in 2010, losing 600 sorting jobs in the city and leaving it as the only major centre without its own sorting office.

but I have already made my point on that. If they can move a sorting centre and save 600 jobs, in my opinion these workers are doing an unnecessary job in the first place and it is practices like these that means that Royal Mail is in such a mess that it is today.