royal mail strikes

moneypooh

We deal with some of the biggest companies in Europe and they still pay by cheque!!!!
We certainly can't dictate how they pay us, just glad that they do on a regular basis
We have been looking at requesting other methods but if it means losing business then we'll just have to wait for payment.

Payment is one thing getting the invoices to them is another. We are sending out fax and email copies now to ensure we don't get the other option of excuse that 'we haven't received an invoice".

Colin2511

not sure if this will help, (and does not help mail stuck in the post), but this is a petition asking the gvy to intervene to end fairly a few businesses have signed this, as the small businesses will really struggle with the strike

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/MailStrike/

Savvy_Sue

If you are asking for payment by BACS, especially with small companies / individuals can I suggest you ask them to email you when the payment's made?

We make a lot of payments by BACS at work, and find that some companies aren't very good at matching money in to invoices out, even though we quote the invoice number as a reference. Sending an email to say "Your payment of £X for Invoice No. ... has been authorised today" has significantly reduced the number of chasers we get!

greyteam1959

Been using BACS for all my payments to suppliers for years now.
Never use cheques at all.
Send remittance advice by email.
So Royal Mail can go and strike as much and as long as they want from my point of view.
Times move on..........

nexuss

Looks like amazon are leaving royal mail.

greyteam1959

How to completely destroy a business..........

azza21

What a joke, Royal Mail are a joke, they think they have a devine right everytime something doesn't go there way in the workforce to go on strike. There is a recession going on, thousands of people have/are losing there jobs yet royal mail are playing the going on strike trick again. The nock on effect this has on businesses, whom depend on royal mails services, it just makes matters worse.

Its time the goverment looked at other avenue's now, TNT other options available, because i'm sick of them, the public from what i'm reading around the web is sick to death of royal mail behaving the way they do too.

With lack of public support in these harsh times, i only see it heading down one road, the same road that the coal minors went down.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

azza21 wrote: »

What a joke, Royal Mail are a joke, they think they have a devine right everytime something doesn't go there way in the workforce to go on strike. There is a recession going on, thousands of people have/are losing there jobs yet royal mail are playing the going on strike trick again. The nock on effect this has on businesses, whom depend on royal mails services, it just makes matters worse.

Its time the goverment looked at other avenue's now, TNT other options available, because i'm sick of them, the public from what i'm reading around the web is sick to death of royal mail behaving the way they do too.

With lack of public support in these harsh times, i only see it heading down one road, the same road that the coal minors went down.

the miners went on strike because the goverment ( what i can remember) would not modernise and said it was not cost effective to keep the mines open..

strange how a load of miners run a coal mine and it ran at a profit for quite a few years before being sold to be an opencast mine:rolleyes:

there is allways a degree of truth in what strikers say, and there is allways a degree of untold things by the companies..

its the same with the fuel/tankers not delivering to the petrol stations a few years back, because they belived that petrol prices would go well over the £ a litre, everyone moaned as they could not get fuel... but the hauliers were right,, when fuel went up to over £1.30 a litre, which had a knock on effect to food prices etc..

a11waysindebt

mervyn11 wrote: »

Been using BACS for all my payments to suppliers for years now.
Never use cheques at all.
Send remittance advice by email.
So Royal Mail can go and strike as much and as long as they want from my point of view.
Times move on..........

I also receive payments by bacs paypal etc. The only trouble is I still need to post the items out. Unfortunately by RM. Its not viable by any other source.

I've had to pump my own money in to keeping the business afloat and just as it starts to pick up, this problem occurs with RM.

If they are losing money then the first call should be who the hell is running the place. Put the postage up by a sensible amount not 1p here or there.

I've seen people moan at the price of 39p for a first class stamp but then pay extra for R/D.

Lets get back to reality lets say 59p or 69p for a first class stamp, a bit of a hike I agree, but it gets the money needed for these essential upgrades.

Going on strike and losing contracts and annoying your customers ain't the way forwards.

custardy

a11waysindebt wrote: »

I also receive payments by bacs paypal etc. The only trouble is I still need to post the items out. Unfortunately by RM. Its not viable by any other source.

I've had to pump my own money in to keeping the business afloat and just as it starts to pick up, this problem occurs with RM.

If they are losing money then the first call should be who the hell is running the place. Put the postage up by a sensible amount not 1p here or there.

I've seen people moan at the price of 39p for a first class stamp but then pay extra for R/D.

Lets get back to reality lets say 59p or 69p for a first class stamp, a bit of a hike I agree, but it gets the money needed for these essential upgrades.

Going on strike and losing contracts and annoying your customers ain't the way forwards.

prices are controlled via the regulator
same as the rates chargeable under DSA