Royal Mail Strike Action

platypus · 4 Oct 2007 at 16:59

Jock Dodds said:
you're right, but I'm trying to swerve away from a 'my job is better than yours' piddling competion

Whilst this is GD, believe it or not, some people can have an actual discussion

platypus · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:00

fothsn said:
Something with your name & surname.. Bank card, bill, student card etc

I've picked up two parcels recently from the Royal Mail office after missing the delivery..about £600 worth of goods. I wasn't asked for ID on either occasion.

Fothsn · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:01

tomanders91 said:
so it doesnt need to be photo?

Nope, unless you have a total __ in the office, shouldn’t be a problem using a bank card, just as long as you have the matching surname on the card posted,

Cuchulain · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:01

platypus said:
I've picked up two parcels recently from the Royal Mail office after missing the delivery..about £600 worth of goods. I wasn't asked for ID on either occasion.

It wasn't a laptop I'm still waiting on by any chance was it?

Dingleberry88 · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:02

bringerofdecay, it would probably be in your best interests to stop posting in this thread.

Fothsn · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:11

There is some serious hatred to RM staff and the company its self in this thread its shocking tbh! Whats the real problem guys>?

Cuchulain · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:14

fothsn said:
There is some serious hatred to RM staff and the company its self in this thread its shocking tbh! Whats the real problem guys>?

I wonder, perhaps part of it is down to the usually shoddy service which has now been exacerbated by them deciding to take strike action which few people agree with?

meghatronic · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:14

fothsn said:
There is some serious hatred to RM staff and the company its self in this thread its shocking tbh! Whats the real problem guys>?

Tbh, I'm jealous of the fact they CAN strike. When other underpaid sectors really can't - or wouldn't. Nurses spring to mind.

Dolph · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:17

Cuchulain said:
I wonder, perhaps part of it is down to the usually shoddy service which has now been exacerbated by them deciding to take strike action which few people agree with?

I would imagine that's a big part of the issue. Combine that with dislike of militant behaviour of the union and the attacks by Workers in this thread on those who break the strike and those who don't agree with them really don't make a case for those against the strikers being mistaken.

Azagoth · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:19

I hope they all bloody lose their jobs, the scum! We have quite a few things that are supposed to be arriving this weekend, but now we'll have to wait until sometime next week!

Perhaps someone from the Post Office can explain just what we, the paying customer, have paid for over this weekend and can we get a refund?

Fothsn · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:21

Azagoth said:
I hope they all bloody lose their jobs, the scum! We have quite a few things that are supposed to be arriving this weekend, but now we'll have to wait until sometime next week!

Perhaps someone from the Post Office can explain just what we, the paying customer, have paid for over this weekend and can we get a refund?

Well the strikes have being know for a while now, bad planning on your half tbh

Cuchulain · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:24

fothsn said:
Well the strikes have being know for a while now, bad planning on your half tbh

And there's your typical RM workers attitude right there ... "we don't care"

Azagoth · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:24

fothsn said:
Well the strikes have being know for a while now, bad planning on your half tbh

My behalf? How the hell can it be bad planning on my behalf when I'm the one expecting the mail? No wonder your Company is so screwed up!

Pulse · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:25

Royal Mail do suck arse... was expecting my insurance to be here by tomorrow now it looks like im not getting it till next wednesday, ********!

Dolph · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:25

Azagoth said:
I hope they all bloody lose their jobs, the scum! We have quite a few things that are supposed to be arriving this weekend, but now we'll have to wait until sometime next week!

Perhaps someone from the Post Office can explain just what we, the paying customer, have paid for over this weekend and can we get a refund?

It's not the post office that caused the strike, it's the union, so I'd hope compensation claims should be directed to them.

Striking is all well and good, but anyone who strikes should have to accept the consequences of their actions.

monkeyspank · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:26

Azagoth said:
My behalf? How the hell can it be bad planning on my behalf when I'm the one expecting the mail? No wonder your Company is so screwed up!

Azagoth said:
Perhaps someone from the Post Office can explain just what we, the paying customer, have paid for over this weekend and can we get a refund?

you even iterated that you were "the paying customer". Now you're saying it's got nothing to do with you?

Azagoth · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:28

monkeyspank said:
You're saying you paid for it in so far as asking for a refund. Hence you must have organised it.

No, I sent the money to cover postage to my mate ages ages. It's he who's posted the items, I didn't know they were arriving this weekend until about 10:00 this morning.

scorza · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:29

I'm with the strikers. Some guy on the Jeremy Vine show was saying how he couldn't give a hoots about pay but was striking because of the changes to his terms and conditions whereby now he has to go back to work after he's finished his rounds. If a posty finishes his round why shouldn't he go home? Explain to me how it benefits me, the customer, if my mail gets delivered at 10am instead of 7am?

monkeyspank · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:31

Azagoth said:
No, I sent the money to cover postage to my mate ages ages. It's he who's posted the items, I didn't know they were arriving this weekend until about 10:00 this morning.

Smacks of bad planning to me.

Fothsn · 4 Oct 2007 at 17:32

Cuchulain said:
And there's your typical RM workers attitude right there ... "we don't care"

Okay 'I live in a perfect world' who do I get my mail off? The dustbin man!

I have worked around the strike as I’ve got a finance form due which needs sorting out, Bit of common sense doesn’t go a miss!