Royal Mail national strike looms for Christmas

Snooze

Custardy, you are wasting your time here trying to argue your case. When you cut through all the BS the general public don't give a toss and as far as they are concerned you're all a bunch of lazy tw@ts and should all be sacked, completely oblivious to the fact that you guys are doing the best you can while being squeezed from both ends. Obviously there are those posties that take the p1ss like those delivering cards to collect parcels instead of the parcels themselves, but on the whole I think the vast majority of posties do a sterling job and have to put up with a lot of !!!!!! - not a job I would do anyway.

That said, when it comes down to the bone and you cut out all the BS you are left with 2 choices :

1. Shut up and put up.
2. Leave.

Your third option of striking to get what you want is not going to work, period. You don't have the public support and never will, regardless of how many pages of figures you trott out or bleat about how essential you all are. The RM aren't going to back down either and nor are they going to change their ways to suddenly make it a half-cushy job for your posties again, so ultimately all you will achieve by striking is an appearance in the dole queue a few years earlier than you planned, either through being sacked/made redundant (unlikely) or the collapse of the RM (likely, if the strike continues for any length of time).

I feel for you posties I really do, but whichever route you take the outcome is not going to be pretty for you.

R

smartn

Having read a lot of this thread it is apparent this will all end up very badly for all concerned. I can now understand where the workers are coming from and have much more sympathy for them than I did initially (I, like most of the public was quick to judge without understanding the facts).

Despite this I still fail to see what striking is going to acheive, I cant see either side backing down in a hurry and I dont see any compromise being met. I hope for all the workers and management I'm wrong and some middle ground is found and quickly.

StevieJ

custardy wrote: »

as ive said packet traffic is up every year (even RM admit this)

But will is carry on increasing if you lose Amazon and Ebay business

custardy

StevieJ wrote: »

But will is carry on increasing if you lose Amazon and Ebay business

yes,amazon is a large contract but a small part of the daily traffic IYKWIM
as for ebay business well thats down to 000's of individual coustomers

StevieJ

I had a pay slip delivered yesterday by DHL for someone who lives near Stoke, any ideas how I send this to the correct destination without it costing me money I can't give it to the postman can I ? thing is the post code is nothing like, do DHL not use post codes ? I hope we don't lose the post office altogether

Degenerate

StevieJ wrote: »

I had a pay slip delivered yesterday by DHL for someone who lives near Stoke, any ideas how I send this to the correct destination without it costing me money I can't give it to the postman can I ? thing is the post code is nothing like, do DHL not use post codes ? I hope we don't lose the post office altogether

It's DHL's resposibility to collect it from you and redeliver it correctly. You could contact them here:

http://apps.dhl.co.uk/cgi-bin/comments/comments.cgi

StevieJ

Degenerate wrote: »

It's DHL's resposibility to collect it from you and redeliver it correctly. You could contact them here:

http://apps.dhl.co.uk/cgi-bin/comments/comments.cgi

Thanks , not going to cost me money not sure about inconvenience.

custardy

are you sure its not DX?
when you say delivered by DHL ,was it delivered by DHL or does it just say DHL on the payslip?