Forthcoming Royal Mail Industrial Action

Hintza

Not sure if I agree with some of the sentiments.

I have a Royal mail account so deal with the guys at the sorting office (not PO) the opening hours have changed from 6:00 am - 1:30pm to 6am-11am due to lack of staff. They are reducing staff so fast and putting many on to part time contracts with no overtime that on many occasions it isn't even open at all and I have to drive 7 miles to the next one.

I think the powers that be are trying to cut staff numbers too far. The private companies are cherry picking the most profitable bits (and the using the posties to deliver!).

Especially for rural folk I can see PO boxes becoming the norm in the next few years when they pull daily deliveries as uneconomic. I am not happy with the way things are going but something needs done.

I a sure some of the working practices are probably arcane and need shaken up but I feel management/government are going to far.

FloFlo

iieee wrote: »

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.]

Will they be trained in time? What sort of price would you charge for UK delivery under 1kg?

peter_the_piper

IMHO its the governments fault. Without, as Hintza says, private firms being allowed to cherry pick the best contracts there would be enough money for a decent settlement for the posties etc. If the private mail companies had to deliver to the end customer how many would still take up the contracts?

chris73

I've not had a pay rise for 3 years, many others in our seat-of-yer-pants manufacturing industry are in the same position, yet we still turn up for work every morning, more fool us :rolleyes: .

Let 'em strike. All that will happen is that more people will turn to faster alternatives such as email for their bread and butter communications, private carrier firms will grow and grow and most of those who move away from the R.M will not bother to go back when / if they can be bothered to return - who cares!. Very soon they'll be whinging about job cuts when the business drops as people move away to seek alternatives - Talk about hammering nails into your own coffin.

Better still, think of all of those bills, inland revenue demands and speeding fines which will be getting held up, not to mention junk mail!.

MrB_2

As a member of the CWU and a Postie, I would like to add my veiws.
The Royal has one shareholder, the government. All the so called modernization plans drawn up by Leighton and his cronies are to raise the profit margin for the Royal Mail shareholder, i.e. the government. For many years Royal Mail has made nice big profits, many hundreds of millions of pounds, without a great deal of investment into the company, regardless of the Managerial propaganda stating they have. Where did the money go? We are now battling to save jobs and the delivery system that we have in place NOW, not the proposed delivery system of me starting work at a time when the rest of the country has been at work for an hour or so, I wont be delivering mail until after 10.30am, which means a lot of people wont be getting their packets, parcels, recorded and special deliveries, because we all have lifes and jobs. As stated above, callers office hours are shortening, so when will you get your packets, parcels etc. You will always have the option of collecting from the Post Office for a fee of ,at the moment, 50p. I say at the moment because this sum isn't under regulation, unlike stamps.
Allan Leighton has already got his feet under the table at Last Minute.com so win or lose the current dispute, I'm alright Jack.
I don't agree with the CWU's industrial action as it is full of flaws, and I cannot agree with Royal Mails stratagy for modernization.... it will kill off the postal system as we know it, but as a wage slave with a family and morgage, any sensible ideas what I should do?

maniac886

Not good news guys;


'The Communication Workers Union is expected to announce on Thursday it will extend the action until 20 August.'

I have had a few items sent to me via SD and these have taken 2 working days to arrive. I have sent my ebay items via payperdrop this week to keep my buyers happy!

Full news here.

Jamz

it is an absolute JOKE I tell you, my wife is a nurse, they've only been offered 1.5% pay rise which is a ridiculous amount considering the amount of work she does but do the nurses strike, no they don't their not allowed. it's stupid and it shouldn't be allowed.

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adouglasmhor

Parcelforce are still delivering, cheaper than many couriers for packages.

Becles

Just a heads up about mail strikes.

In addition to the official action, some mail centres in Scotland walked out on unofficial action last night. Newcastle has walked out this morning. Expect delays on your ebay packages, especially if they are travelling through the north of the UK.