Royal Mail Strike

jasmineswhiskers

Royal Mail workers are to hold a 24-hour strike on Friday, 29 June, the main postal union has confirmed.

Don't know how much this will affect Ebay sellers but I guess if you offer next day delivery then it won't happen on this day.

whypayhighfees

Royal mail are hammering yet another nail into their own coffin. If they inconvenience sellers on all the various sites, or "real world" businesses who rely on the mail services, then all that will happen is customers who were with RM will look for someone else more reliable.

greenstreetprince

this is what happens when unions have too much power, I blame Blair!

user051105

Put it another way, are you are all going to complain when theres less postmen to deliver your mail (40,000 less), if not how about when post starts to arrive late in the evening, if not how about 1st class starting at 41 pence, do you want me to go on.

Stop whinging and get behind your postmen and women who without them your items wouldn't get there at a good price. If you want to complain go use DHL, TNT, etc, oops i forget they twice the price.

rabbit_burrow

user051105 wrote: »

Put it another way, are you are all going to complain when theres less postmen to deliver your mail (40,000 less), if not how about when post starts to arrive late in the evening, if not how about 1st class starting at 41 pence, do you want me to go on.

Stop whinging and get behind your postmen and women who without them your items wouldn't get there at a good price. If you want to complain go use DHL, TNT, etc, oops i forget they twice the price.

I do feel very sorry for them, every worker should get a good deal, but it will go round in circles. 1) If postmen/women leave, others will be employed. 2) It wouldn't matter if my post arrived in the evening, I don't get it until around 10am anyway so can't read it until I get home in the afternoon. 3) 1st class starting at 41p could happen anyway if pay goes up because big companies are greedy, :mad: so instead of giving the posties a pay rise and cutting costs elsewhere, they would simply bump up the cost of post, and workers would probably be expected to work more for their money:eek: ......Then the circle starts again.:rolleyes:

wullie

What you lot don't seem to realise is that the service won't exist for people who live rural areas soon. Fine if you live in a big city, but once you've destroyed Royal Mail ,these firms( TNT and all) won't waste their time driving to some small village in the middle of nowhere. You'll also have to pay the TRUE cost of a stamp. Try getting DHL to carry a letter from Cornwall to Scotland for 36p.

rabbit_burrow

wullie wrote: »

What you lot don't seem to realise is that the service won't exist for people who live rural areas soon. Fine if you live in a big city, but once you've destroyed Royal Mail ,these firms( TNT and all) won't waste their time driving to some small village in the middle of nowhere. You'll also have to pay the TRUE cost of a stamp. Try getting DHL to carry a letter from Cornwall to Scotland for 36p.

Why would RM be destroyed?

vikingaero

jasmineswhiskers wrote: »

Royal Mail workers are to hold a 24-hour strike on Friday, 29 June, the main postal union has confirmed.

Seems like they want a long weekend in the sun!:rotfl:

Steel_2

Royal mail lose money on every domestic letter that gets sent. It makes money on Junk Mail and parcels. Royal mail has it's prices set for it by the government, the competition such as TNT etc doesn't and can undercut. So Royal Mail's client's are being offerred by TNT etc the chance to save a penny or two on the cost of every peice of mail it sends out safe in knowledge that it can offer Royal Mail a pittance to deliver that mail. The client gets the same Royal Mail service at a cheaper cost. Meanwhile Royal Mail are lumbered with domestic post that loses them money.

BTW Amazon didn't jump ship becuase of the strike. It jumped ship because saving a few pennies on every mail piece it sends out will add up to millions and make it more profitable. Until the government allow Royal mail to become a competitive enterprise on the same terms as it's 'competitors' it's going to continue to roll along in the same shambolic state it's been in for the last two years with the accountants massaging the figures.

Do you know staff nearing retirment are being given £35K payouts when they take voluntary redundancy only to appear back at the sorting office a few months later as temporaries which then become permanent positions? Or that Royal mail managers are paid £5,000 more than equivalent TNT and Parcelforce mail managers? Or that postman are promised huge bonuses for meeting targets which are so set artificially high that even the local managers joke they can never be achieved?

Round and round and round......

Meanwhile my husband is on course for losing £160 a month out of his pay packet (we sat down and worked it all out a couple of weeks ago). That's our entire petrol costs for the month. He starts work at 4:30am and works right up until he's due to finish at 1:20pm. He's one of the most independently commended postman in his office and has a record of just 10 days sick in 14 years.

He's looking for another job somewhere else now. Bye, bye Royal Mail. Bye, bye

gtone28

greenstreetprince wrote: »

this is what happens when unions have too much power, I blame Blair!

Unions are their to help employees when company's act unfairly, example (fat cats get bigger bonus's while the staff get offered a percentage less than council tax rise's)

By the way maggie took all the power off the unions. So it now takes week's before a strike can be taken, and the union's can get sued by the company's for loss of earnings if this procedure is not followed.




So what if they go out on strike one less bill on your door mat (well just for a day).

I work for a company who keep ignoring government guide lines on working hours,pay and disipline procedures and are union can't do nothing because they won't listen. apart from organize a walk out to show the mood of it staff.

You Could say it's a cowboy company but it's worth several million and based around the world.

user051105

1) If postmen/women leave, others will be employed.

RM use natural attrition and do not employ people to cover this.