More Royal Mail Strike on its way...

Wonderful.

I'm going to go around to their picket line and throw eggs at them.

They crossed our picket, so I will let them know the support they should expect in return.

Scum. They really need a reality check with this one too.
 
All they get by striking, is worse services, and less work, which leads to more job cuts. They are beyond retarded, from what I hear "worlds biggest river" are ditching Royal mail because customers have for so long been complaining about services. for the past 10 years, everything I ordered special delivery turns up at my door before 9am, for the past several months, we're lucky to get them before 1pm, today something from that river, turned up at about 3pm.

Their screwing around is COSTING them jobs, not saving them.

Likewise afaik they aren't fighting for more pay, or better hours, they are fighting for a contract that makes certain of no job losses, when the rest of the world is losing jobs, they are losing contracts for mail delivery through crappy services, they are fighting to not lose jobs. Get a grip, as for health and safety, unions were useful once, when the little man had someone to stand up for themselves, to stop miners spending 16 hours underground with no health care, sorry, but we aren't there anymore, not even close.

THe once little man union rep fighting for healthcare and being treated better, are now rich men in a position of power who, with nothing to do, don't have power, so now fight over things that the little man who started the union's decades/centuries ago, would be disgusted, embarassed and ashamed of.

Fighting for the decent treatment, ok pay, and healthcare is commendable, fighting for completely ridiculous pay increases, certainty's of jobs in uncertain times and the like, is just greed pure and simple.

Like train drivers striking, doing the most pitifully easy job on very good money for what they do, striking, not for fair pay, but for UNFAIR pay.

Unions were required at one point, they aren't anymore, union leaders have become worse than the bosses they used to fight.

likewise, if unions were disbanded, greedy bosses would start to act the same and mistreat people, you can't win when everyones greedy, no one is willing to say, this is enough, this is fair, let it be.
 
drunkenmaster said:
All they get by striking, is worse services, and less work, which leads to more job cuts. They are beyond retarded, from what I hear "worlds biggest river" are ditching Royal mail because customers have for so long been complaining about services. for the past 10 years, everything I ordered special delivery turns up at my door before 9am, for the past several months, we're lucky to get them before 1pm, today something from that river, turned up at about 3pm.

Their screwing around is COSTING them jobs, not saving them.

Likewise afaik they aren't fighting for more pay, or better hours, they are fighting for a contract that makes certain of no job losses, when the rest of the world is losing jobs, they are losing contracts for mail delivery through crappy services, they are fighting to not lose jobs. Get a grip, as for health and safety, unions were useful once, when the little man had someone to stand up for themselves, to stop miners spending 16 hours underground with no health care, sorry, but we aren't there anymore, not even close.

THe once little man union rep fighting for healthcare and being treated better, are now rich men in a position of power who, with nothing to do, don't have power, so now fight over things that the little man who started the union's decades/centuries ago, would be disgusted, embarassed and ashamed of.

Fighting for the decent treatment, ok pay, and healthcare is commendable, fighting for completely ridiculous pay increases, certainty's of jobs in uncertain times and the like, is just greed pure and simple.

Like train drivers striking, doing the most pitifully easy job on very good money for what they do, striking, not for fair pay, but for UNFAIR pay.

Unions were required at one point, they aren't anymore, union leaders have become worse than the bosses they used to fight.

likewise, if unions were disbanded, greedy bosses would start to act the same and mistreat people, you can't win when everyones greedy, no one is willing to say, this is enough, this is fair, let it be.
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Thats a lot of typing considering you have nothing to say and have said nothing :eek:
 
Doonhamer said:
Who is we? my understanding is a lot of the country needs the Royal Mail as another carrier only interested in profit would not bother servicing large areas of the country due to poor profit margins.
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I agree the service wouldn't be the same as we have now, ie postboxes all over the place but I am yet to find a courrier such as City Link et al that is unwilling to deliver and if they are so what, using sucha system would require you have to drop your post off at the "post office" so you can pick it up from there if you live in a silly place.

No one pays for me to get fibre optic internet up mount everest. but I can see more point in having a national Fibre network, Rail Network, Road, rail network etc than a post network due to their nature of not having literally symultanious pipes,cables and tracks everywhere for each company or 1 company with a monopoly. It isn't hard to send a couple of extra vans down the motorway nor are collection offices that expensive to run, many provate companies already have them all over the place.
 
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starfighter said:
I agree the service wouldn't be the same as we have now, ie postboxes all over the place but I am yet to find a courrier such as City Link et al that is unwilling to deliver and if they are so what, using sucha system would require you have to drop your post off at the "post office" so you can pick it up from there if you live in a silly place.
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Whilst your idea has merit, RM has to abide by the universal service obligation which promises deleiveries to every house in the country six days a week. That is a fantastic service that the public is being afforded, if you think that your alternative could be better then you're nuttier than squirrel poop :p
 
Total disgrace.
They may have legitimate complaints but their actions are costing people hugely be it not getting into colleges/university, or not being able to pay bills or not getting important personal letters.
These strikes have consequences far worst than any perceived grievance they are expected to deal with.
Regardless of how they feel about their pay or employer, they are simply not doing their jobs and I can't understand how this is allowed to continue, legally.
Besides, they are just paid to take parcel A to place B.
They have no reason to expect anything other than minimum wage. Theres plenty of people doing fast worst jobs than strolling around the town around 12 o clock each day.
It's an easy-ish job, needing no qualifications. Pay reflects that.
I think all the people who have suffered from not getting important post should form a legal action against these postmen - give them something to really complain about.
 
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Jeff Lynne said:
Whilst your idea has merit, RM has to abide by the universal service obligation which promises deleiveries to every house in the country six days a week. That is a fantastic service that the public is being afforded, if you think that your alternative could be better then you're nuttier than squirrel poop :p
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why do we need the obligation? get rid of it and let rm compete without it. of course, taxpayer support would go too, I am more that happy with that.
 
Showboat said:
Greedy mofos, during a time when the royal mail is in decline and needs to reduce workforce to remain competitive, these mofos hold the company to randsom wanting to maintain pay rises and keep dead wood about the place....

Everyone else is grateful to have a job, should start sacking these clowns in big numbers.....
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Fancy wanting a reasonably decent (i.e. a bit above minimum wage) wage and fair working conditions! ungrateful scum! Get real.
 
jp_bl_68 said:
Then what did I misunderstand? I'm unemployed. I want a job. A short term contract is better than no contract.
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Do you understand that we're trying to protect jobs from the hack and slash approach of royal mail management? would you rather have a 40 hour full time job or a five hour contract?
 
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