Forthcoming Royal Mail Industrial Action

user051105

Just thought I would drop a note in for you avid sellers, new strike action will take place from 25th July 2007 for two whole weeks. So you will more than likely experience a lack of customers unless you use a courier.

Proposed Programme for Industrial Action over 2 Weeks on Functional/Site Basis

Mail Centres and Cash Handling – duties, Scheduled Attendance and overtime commencing at or after 19.00 Wednesday 25th July 2007 until 19.00 Thursday 26th July 2007

MDECs – duties, Scheduled Attendance and overtime commencing at or after 12 noon Thursday 26th July 2007 until 12 noon Friday 27th July 2007

International/HWDC – duties, Scheduled Attendance and overtime commencing at or after 12 noon Friday 27th July 2007 until 12 noon Saturday 28th July 2007

Deliveries and Separate Collection Hubs - duties, Scheduled Attendance and overtime commencing at or after 19.00 Friday 27th July 2007 until 19.00 Saturday 28th July 2007.

Week 2

Airports – duties, Scheduled Attendance and overtime commencing at or after 12 noon Monday 30th July 2007 until 12 noon Tuesday 31st July 2007

Mail Centres and Cash Handling – duties, Scheduled Attendance and overtime commencing at or after 03.00 Tuesday 31st July 2007 until 03.00 Wednesday 1st August 2007

Network - duties, Scheduled Attendance and overtime commencing at or after 03.00 Wednesday 1st August 2007 until 03.00 Thursday 2nd August 2007

Deliveries and Separate Collection Hubs – duties, Scheduled Attendance and overtime commencing at or after 03.00 Thursday 2nd August 2007 until 03.00 Friday 3rd August 2007

Airports - duties, Scheduled Attendance and overtime commencing at or after 19.00 Friday 3rd August 2007 until 19.00 Saturday 4th August 2007.

MDECs - duties, Scheduled Attendance and overtime commencing at or after 03.00 Saturday 4th August 2007 until 03.00 Sunday 5th August 2007


Week 3

International/HWDC – duties, Scheduled Attendance and overtime commencing at or after 19.00 Monday 6th August 2007 until 19.00 Tuesday 7th August 2007.

Network – duties, Scheduled Attendance and overtime commencing at or after 12 noon Tuesday 7th August 2007 until 12 noon Wednesday 8th August 2007

Hope this is of use to everybody as I would not want you wasting money listing things if you going to be disrupted by postal service.

:T

peter_the_piper

Sorry, I could'nt make head nor tail of that so I thiink I'll stop ebaying for a while. Whilst a dvd will last in the post my plants wouldn't.

newbie71_2

Thanks to the OP for being kind and alerting us to this; the BBC website make it a bit clearer still - disruption big time!

A two-week campaign of staggered strike action across the UK postal service has been announced by union officials.

The rolling programme of walk-outs, to begin on Wednesday 25 July, will affect every aspect of the Royal Mail. It follows two earlier 24-hour strikes.

The strikes will see each section of the company from the sorting and collection centres to those involved with making the deliveries walking out on two separate 24-hour strikes over two weeks.




With each division allocated a different day to strike, the action is designed to create continuous disruption to the UK's postal service over that period.

rustynash

the bloody cheek of it
i wonder if theyll require some freelance postmen then.. :P

aeuerby

Can anyone recommend a courier for small parcels?

marymilkmaid

Well im still waiting for a parcel that was posted on the
9/7/07. No hope of it turning up now.

Personally I think striking will do the RM more harm than good. People will find an alternative way to get their things to their destination & if they provide a better service, they may not return to the hit & miss service that RM provides.

peter_the_piper

This is the sort of action which allowed the British Car and Motorcycle industries rise to the heady heights they are at now.

FloFlo

So what is everyone going to do carry on, find alernative, or stop during action?

aeuerby

We have to carry on selling but I'm looking into a courier...
Not impressed with Royal Mail.:mad:

iieee

I am training an elite squadron of courier pigeons to deliver my packages. Not sure how they are going to cope with that chest of drawers though.


To the strikers I'd just like to say !!!!!!! If only I had a job where millions relied on me for their income. Maybe I could blackmail my way to a better payrise too.:rolleyes:

Edit: I like this bit on the BBC report:

One of the initiatives it is fiercely opposing is the use of more automation in sorting post, which is currently one of the duties of postal delivery staff before setting off on their rounds.

.......surely striking just gives them one more reason to switch to machines.........

Cute_'n'_Quirky

Companies shouldn't be allowed to do this sort of thing to bring the country to a standstill.

Next thing is that the Royal Mail will want a postage price hike to cover the losses!