Postal strikes

[TattooedHibee]

Apologies to anyone that works with the royal mail or is a postie. We don't blame you

but with the strikes that have went on over the years do you think they are starting to take the piss?

Postal Workers start 48-hour strike

I might send a group email around my company the morn for a mass strike. Seems to work every time.

[PILTONSTANY]

Originally Posted by TattooedHibee

Apologies to anyone that works with the royal mail or is a postie. We don't blame you

but with the strikes that have went on over the years do you think they are starting to take the piss?

Postal Workers start 48-hour strike

I might send a group email around my company the morn for a mass strike. Seems to work every time.

I'll bite ya shite stirrin bassa.......................
Luckily you've no been in a position where you lose wages to feed your kids or pay bills so that your job can be safegaurded

Heres a wee glance at the changes RM proposes

Posties to srike again - HibeesBounce

[TattooedHibee]

Knew I'd reel ye in.

[HibeeJibee]

I accept the post office workers have a case, but striking regularly for days at a time is not a way to the public, or the employers, hearts. Most of the people I talked to today about it said they were angry with the posties.

[Smurf]

The business i'm involved spends a small fortune on mail with Royal Mail. I send quite a lot of mail down south that i need guaranteed for AM delivery and i pay the extra for it...

Yesterday i had to get a really important document delivered for today and suddenly remembered the strike late on in the afternoon..

So i contacted one of the many courier firms that have been contacting me for years. Result is i'll no longer use Royal Mail ever again. I can't afford to miss deadlines.

There's too many options in the market now and strikes are only going to piss off customers and cost Royal Mail.

The deal offered to staff does look harsh but strikes don't appear to be the answer in 2007 IMHO.

[Colr]

Couriers are mostly shite. Royal Mail would clean up if it was run better.

[hixxy220]

Originally Posted by Colr

Couriers are mostly shite. Royal Mail would clean up if it was run better.

Companies always have to change and modernize but Royal Mail are constantly making an arse of things when it comes to plans, they never pick an easy one!

[sKipper]

Originally Posted by Smurf

The business i'm involved spends a small fortune on mail with Royal Mail. I send quite a lot of mail down south that i need guaranteed for AM delivery and i pay the extra for it...

Yesterday i had to get a really important document delivered for today and suddenly remembered the strike late on in the afternoon..

So i contacted one of the many courier firms that have been contacting me for years. Result is i'll no longer use Royal Mail ever again. I can't afford to miss deadlines.

There's too many options in the market now and strikes are only going to piss off customers and cost Royal Mail.

The deal offered to staff does look harsh but strikes don't appear to be the answer in 2007 IMHO.

Special Deliveries are unaffected by the industrial action. Managers will deliver them.

[Stu]

'Mon the posties.

I'm quite enjoying the respite from bills actually.

[hixxy220]

Originally Posted by sKipper

Special Deliveries are unaffected by the industrial action. Managers will deliver them.

The CD guys in my work toil to get rid of the reggies in my office, i think the managers will toil with them.

[greencol]

Originally Posted by Smurf

The business i'm involved spends a small fortune on mail with Royal Mail. I send quite a lot of mail down south that i need guaranteed for AM delivery and i pay the extra for it...

Yesterday i had to get a really important document delivered for today and suddenly remembered the strike late on in the afternoon..

So i contacted one of the many courier firms that have been contacting me for years. Result is i'll no longer use Royal Mail ever again. I can't afford to miss deadlines.

There's too many options in the market now and strikes are only going to piss off customers and cost Royal Mail.

The deal offered to staff does look harsh but strikes don't appear to be the answer in 2007 IMHO.

Your important document is probably still being delivered by Royal Mail posties Kenny.
Many couriers take it off your hands, sort it as the Royal Mail does & then send it on to the Royal Mail to deliver!.

[Hampden_Hibby]

Originally Posted by hixxy220

The CD guys in my work toil to get rid of the reggies in my office

What does that mean?

[1875steve]

Originally Posted by Colr

Couriers are mostly shite. Royal Mail would clean up if it was run better.

Spot on.

Doesn't help that Adam Crozier and Alan Leighton are in charge.

Seen fit to award themselves multi million pound bonuses.

They work 3 hours a week for Royal Mail.

Wankers.

[JollyJackTar]

The posties are on strike? Can't say I've noticed any difference here in the Dunfermline. If anything the service has got better!!

Who'd be a postie? Still, it's better than walking the streets!

[cabbage]

Originally Posted by HibeeJibee

I accept the post office workers have a case, but striking regularly for days at a time is not a way to the public, or the employers, hearts. Most of the people I talked to today about it said they were angry with the posties.

Shite, most of the conditions in the pay review linked to in the OP are changes to T&C's most of us working in the private sector have had endure. I've not had the luxury of a company pension scheme for over 5 years.

Get back to work ya idle bassers

[HibeeJibee]

Their now out on another 48 hour strike starting Monday 3am. Shocking, who do they think they are? I ordered a vital book for a uni presentation on Wednesday afternoon, the distributor hoped it would come on Thursday or Friday, but now it looks like it will get here on Wednesday or Thursday which is f*ck all use when the presentation is on Tuesday. I don't suppose the posties are going to compensate me for that, or should I go on strike too? Get back to work you b*stards, like the rest of the population do.

In future I shall be using a private courier for parcels and other vital post, not this bunch of amateurs.

[wee 162]

Originally Posted by cabbage

Shite, most of the conditions in the pay review linked to in the OP are changes to T&C's most of us working in the private sector have had endure. I've not had the luxury of a company pension scheme for over 5 years.

Get back to work ya idle bassers

So cause you have been shafted others should be as well? Aye, that's reasonable right enough...

I get my fecking kill at this line of reasoning. It's a bit like saying I've got a broken window so get me a pile of stones so that I can break other folks windae because I shouldn't suffer alone.

And persumably you accepted your change in terms and conditions? Was a union involved? Did they have a vote for industrial action? Or did you just moan like feck and do nout like the vast majority of the population who see their working rights taken away and do feck all but whine.

[hixxy220]

Originally Posted by Hampden_Hibby

What does that mean?

Contingency drivers, they take out most of the 10 o' clock registers.

[wee 162]

Oh, and for those inconvenienced, obviously that's a shame. Perhaps you could consider complaining to the management who are imposing things with no consultation, and therefore screwing hard working people rather than moaning about those striking.

[hixxy220]

Originally Posted by wee 162

Oh, and for those inconvenienced, obviously that's a shame. Perhaps you could consider complaining to the management who are imposing things with no consultation, and therefore screwing hard working people rather than moaning about those striking.

[Croxleyhibby]

How come all the posties I know do not benefit physically from all that exercise. Fatties too a man

[hixxy220]

Originally Posted by Croxleyhibby

How come all the posties I know do not benefit physically from all that exercise. Fatties too a man

Main door walks consuming too many pies after finishing?