Royal Mail Strike Action

DanH84 · 3 Oct 2007 at 21:54

beginning again this week, i believe we will get normal post tomorrow? but no delivery on friday, saturday, monday or tuesday?

seems quite a long stretch to go without any delivery to be honest.

vincent1989 · 3 Oct 2007 at 21:56

DanH84 said:
beginning again this week, i believe we will get normal post tomorrow? but no delivery on friday, saturday, monday or tuesday?

seems quite a long stretch to go without any delivery to be honest.

lazy ******* *****

JodieO · 3 Oct 2007 at 21:59

Is it really for that long?

Raikiri · 3 Oct 2007 at 21:59

They do a completely ***** job of it as it is, I doubt I will notice the difference.

Glaucus · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:00

Good on them, there's no one to blame apart from Government and managers. There not going to take a pay cut, whilst *** hard workers do.

vincent1989 · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:03

AcidHell2 said:
Good on them, there's no one to blame apart from Government and managers. There not going to take a pay cut, whilst *** hard workers do.

clearly not working very hard at the moment are they... blimey, it's like every other day off, everyone else has to get on with there crappy job, why cant they :rolleyes:

vincent1989 · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:04

Moses99p said:
no they don't.

well, considering they are opposing changes that will better equip the system they really are doing an aweful job

Raikiri said:
They do a completely ***** job of it as it is, I doubt I will notice the difference.

haha, thats cos you hardly get mail raikiri

rich_g85 · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:08

DanH84 said:
beginning again this week, i believe we will get normal post tomorrow? but no delivery on friday, saturday, monday or tuesday?

seems quite a long stretch to go without any delivery to be honest.

Great! That's my chance of getting a birthday card to my dad on Saturday straight out of the window.

Thanks Royal Mail, remind me to mess YOU about sometime.

Raikiri · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:09

bringerofdecay said:
haha, thats cos you hardly get mail raikiri

I'll have you know I get more than anyone else in my house

Moses99p said:
no they don't.

A week for next day special delivery to arrive.

Glaucus · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:11

Raikiri said:
A week for next day special delivery to arrive.

and their success rate is something like 99%. You can never get a perfect system.

vincent1989 · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:11

Raikiri said:
I'll have you know I get more than anyone else in my house

blimey... your parents dont even get bank statements?

vincent1989 · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:11

AcidHell2 said:
and their success rate is something like 99%. You can never get a perfect system.

no, true, but pity they are opposed to changes that will improve the system, modernise it, increase its speed etc

vincent1989 · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:14

Moses99p said:
yep, the success rate is always very high. But when you have threads on RM strike action you always get a load of people saying the service they get is terrible

like hiper then?

Glaucus · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:15

bringerofdecay said:
no, true, but pity they are opposed to changes that will improve the system, modernise it, increase its speed etc

There not opposed to change to make them better. There opposed to cuts in wage, due to change in shift time and also job cuts.

vincent1989 · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:19

Moses99p said:
like changes that mean no Sunday pickups, less collections generally etc.

like new machinery, like not doing all the leg work by hand in the sorting offices (yes i know that statement makes little sense

) as opposed to machine. i cant go on really, but the fact is RM need to do something to pick their butts out the dirt and keep delivering what is/has been/ on the whole a quality service.

i wouldn't nearly be so opposed to the strikes if they didn't seem to conflict with my deliverys all the damn time (it's like they are watching for what days i order stuff for :mad:

)

Puzzled · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:19

Something has to change as royal mail is losing to much money. They either work for less, or some jobs go as the system becomes more automated.

I can't feel sorry for them as they get paid more than I do, and it's not a skilled job.

vincent1989 · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:21

MonkeyMan said:
Something has to change as royal mail is losing to much money. They either work for less, or some jobs go as the system becomes more automated.

I can't feel sorry for them as they get paid more than I do, and it's not a skilled job.

Q F T

Glaucus · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:22

MonkeyMan said:
Something has to change as royal mail is losing to much money. They either work for less, or some jobs go as the system becomes more automated.

Or the government can reverse it decision on competition. That undercuts RM and costs them money. As they still have to deliver the stupid things. The government royally cocked up.

Glaucus · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:26

Moses99p said:
they can't just reverse that decision. Competition was introduced because the government gave RM a MASSIVE loan to modernise, they lent this money on commercial terms.

But this goes against all sorts of competition laws, so they were obliged to open the market.

They got owned.

It's hardly competition, when the government sets the price at which royal mail has to deliver the final leg. Which is very costly, why there competitors simply do the easy work and get all the money.

The government could at least raise the price, so RM could make profit. Or open up true competition, where companies like TNT have to do the final leg work as well.

Mr.Orb · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:45

Are they striking monday and tuesday as well?!?!