Royal mail strike

custardy

aaroncaz wrote: »

Have rung the number on the card, they NEVER answer!!! and a recorded message says they may be open!! blinking hope so, cant wait till next week!!:rotfl:

if its like my office the phones are just part of a duty.
so you do the phone,deal with special deliverys,email enquiries,parcel collections,redirections,customs charges,buisness replyys,condemed mail items and much more.
would be nice to have someone do the phones
also dont ever bother phoning beyond the opening times or a saturday morning.theres less staff on a saturday and everybody and their brother collects packets on a saturday

aaroncaz

custardy wrote: »

if its like my office the phones are just part of a duty.
so you do the phone,deal with special deliverys,email enquiries,parcel collections,redirections,customs charges,buisness replyys,condemed mail items and much more.
would be nice to have someone do the phones
also dont ever bother phoning beyond the opening times or a saturday morning.theres less staff on a saturday and everybody and their brother collects packets on a saturday

Ok, i know, it's easy to have a moan when it's not you doing the job!! Been there myself, trying to multi-task:eek: I shall just go along on saturday and hope for the best:D

monkeysavers

Millions Without Mail Amid Post Strike Chaos
By Sky News SkyNews - 34 minutes ago
Millions of homes and businesses will get no post today as Royal Mail workers continue their 48-hour strike.
Tens of thousands walked out yesterday in a bitter row over pay, jobs and pensions.
A second two-day stoppage is planned for Monday.
If it goes ahead, deliveries will not return to normal until next Thursday at the earliest.
Customers have been told not to use the regular post boxes while the industrial action continues.
Royal Mail has gone on the offensive, saying it was "hugely disappointed and extremely concerned" that peace talks had failed.
Trade unions accused ministers of showing "complete disinterest" in the dispute and urged them to intervene.
CWU general secretary Billy Hayes said: "If this was Northern Rock they would be pouring money in.
"This is a company that they own and they seem to have no interest whatsoever.
"There is no indication of their concern in the slightest. The Government have been deafening by their silence."
A spokesman for the Royal Mail said: "Rather than accept a solution the union continues to table unrealistic and unaffordable proposals."


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20071005/tuk-millions-without-mail-amid-post-stri-45dbed5.html

smsmasters

I'm expecting 2 items off ebay grrrr...

Debt_Free_Chick

Your terms & conditions should contain a "force majeure" clause where late delivery is not your fault if the matter is "beyond your control".

If you've got items not yet posted, then I suggest you hold on to them but contact your customers. There seems little point in trying to post them today - they won't be collected from the postboxes. Even if you deposit them at the PO, they won't be collected.

If it were me, I'd rather have them posted on Tuesday, when "normal service resumes" rather than have them in a "black hole" for four days! But not everyone will so understanding ....... sigh .....

martindow

My post office (outskirts of Reading) is being cleared of post but only once per day. Mind you they probably won't get any further than the sorting office until the strike is over.

Lifeisbutadream

We got some post today!

Am I in the minority?

Andie2308

We have started using Fastway in the last couple of months and the service is very straight forward and reliable but there are downsides - you advance purchase tickets for either local or national deliveries and then if they have no franchise in an area (you can see the area covered on their website www.fastwaycouriers.co.uk) you need to pay for another set of tickets for those areas so that can be a bit annoying. We mainly send nationally so only bought the regular national ones and have only had one instance where they didn't cover an address which at the time I sent Royal Mail special delivery instead. To send your parcel you just call your driver so it's all very easy, plus they insure to £500 automatically.
I was looking for someone a bit cheaper and found the £4.99 2 day courier service with dhl via payperdrop on ebay and have just booked in my first parcel to be collected on Thursday! If all goes well it will be bye bye trekking down to the post office and postal strike disruption for me and hello couriers! :j
Andrea

p.s - our town postmen are working but only business post is getting through from the sorting office and also our office has had a lunchtime collection everyday too so not as bad as in some places thankfully!

adr0ck

no post in Liverpool today

posties walked out

(if it was gonna happen anywhere)

Simone1408

Got post at work today (In London)... yelped with excitement... however shouldn't have bothered... only bills