Post staff to hold national strikes (22+23 oct)

custardy

TurkishDelight wrote: »

Sorry if this is a dumb question but how do I tell if my local office is a mail centre?

its not that easy lol
if its a fairly small building then it will most likely be a standard delivery office

heres the Edinburgh MC

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=opera&rls=en&q=edinburgh%20mail%20centre&sourceid=opera&oe=utf-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

some rural offices are small MC/DO's so its not an easy question to answer

FOXGLOVE_2

I was out yesterday when postman came with a parcel and left a card, asking me to collect it after 24 hours at my local delivery office.

After calling repeatedly to an engaged tone or no answer, I finally got through and they said they're open today.

Not sure if this is the same for all offices or if they're walking out tomorrow or if it's temp staff that are covering.

Details are:

Edinburgh East Delivery Office
7-11 East Telferton Industrial Estate
Edinburgh
EH7 6XD
Tel: 0131 470 4300
Open Mon-Fri 0700-1900
Sat 0700-1230

This office is the one that replaced the Brunswick Road office and is situated just off Portobello Road.

Try to get through on the phone before travelling on Friday, especially if using bus or walking as per usual, its in the middle of an industrial estate!

Hope this helps someone.

jillie1974

strange... we've just had post. and when i looked it was definitely royal mail postie and one i;ve seen before.
i thought they were all on strike??

custardy

jillie1974 wrote: »

strange... we've just had post. and when i looked it was definitely royal mail postie and one i;ve seen before.
i thought they were all on strike??

and i will say again,deliveries are out tomorrow

mazza111

Rofl Custardly gonna get RSI from typing TOMORROW!

cally6008

More postal staff strikes confirmed

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091022/tuk-more-postal-staff-strikes-confirmed-6323e80.html

A fresh wave of postal strikes will be held next week in an escalation of the bitter Royal Mail dispute, union leaders have announced. Skip related content
The Communication Workers Union served notice of further walk-outs starting next Thursday as thousands of postal workers manned picket lines on Thursday in the first of two 24-hour walk-outs.
The union also offered "unconditional" talks at the conciliation service Acas in a bid to break the deadlocked row over jobs, pay and modernisation.
Details of how long the new strikes will last and which group of workers will be involved will be announced in the coming days.
Mark Higson, Royal Mail's managing director, said it was "appalling but sadly not surprising" that more strikes had been called.
The new stoppages will cause further disruption to mail deliveries, which are already facing big delays because of this week's action.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged Royal Mail management and postal workers to get "round the table" to solve the dispute and said the strike was "self-defeating".
Mr Brown, who was speaking during a walkabout in the centre of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, warned: "If more and more customers leave the Royal Mail and more and more customers stop using the Royal Mail, then more jobs will be lost, so this is self-defeating."


Up to 42,000 mail centre staff and network drivers launched a 24-hour strike on Thursday, while 78,000 delivery and collection workers will walk out on Friday. The union said the walk-out was "solidly supported" as leaders stepped up their attack on Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, accusing him of telling "untruths".
Lord Mandelson urged both sides to continue talking until the deadlock was broken and raised the prospect that the conciliation service Acas could become involved.

bigheadxx

When will these old socialists learn?

Again the dying days of a Labour government and a union leader flexes his muscles because he knows he wont be there next time Labour get in.

"Stronger position than Arthur Scargill?" "more impact on the economy?"

We found an alternative to coal and there are plenty of alternatives to RM already.

soolin

eMa wrote: »

I think its really sad that these strikes are happening.

I read somewhere because of these strikes Amazon have moved their parcels weighing under 500g to Home Delivery Network - Royal Mail have lost out on a 25 Million Pound Contract.

The Unions are holding the whole country to ransome. I sell a few items on ebay and I dread to think that I will be struck with a negative feedback becuase the item arrived late.

What is needed is more competition for Royal Mail, I think competition and choice is good. I doubt Royal Mail workers would strike if TNT or other courier companies were allowed to compete with Royal Mail.

Rant over....

I don't think other companies actually want to compete on smaller items, the RM say they make no money at all on letter deliveries but are obliged to do them anyway. Other companies can now compete for packages etc but really only take the profitable stuff which makes it more difficult for RM.

As for Amazon, they may have been telling porkies as my despatch emails from them in the past couple of days have assured me that my items have been despatched using 2nd class RM mail.

custardy

eMa wrote: »

I think its really sad that these strikes are happening.

I read somewhere because of these strikes Amazon have moved their parcels weighing under 500g to Home Delivery Network - Royal Mail have lost out on a 25 Million Pound Contract.

The Unions are holding the whole country to ransome. I sell a few items on ebay and I dread to think that I will be struck with a negative feedback becuase the item arrived late.

What is needed is more competition for Royal Mail, I think competition and choice is good. I doubt Royal Mail workers would strike if TNT or other courier companies were allowed to compete with Royal Mail.

Rant over....

this whole amazon story is everywhere,yet amazon are still using Rm
all they said was they would takewhat measures they had to so they could maintain service
or is it just me?

soolin

Here'e the cut and paste from my purchase yesterday:

Amazon.co.uk items (Sold by Amazon EU S.a.r.L.):

1 Rough Guide Directions Lan... £4.49 1 £4.49

Shipped via ROYAL_2ND_LETTER