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Let me get this straight. Royal Mail is losing business to the much better, UK Mail and they want to modernise. This might involve 10,000s losing their jobs according to the unions. So now they're all going on strike for god knows how long.
Doesn't this have a negative affect though? I mean the public hate these strikes, it's like those greedy firemen who should be saving lives instead of striking for whatever reason they had.
We need our Amazon deliveries, you know. I hope more companies get put off Royal Mail because of this and switch to UK Mail. It's the unions fault, whats wrong with a 2.5% pay offer?
Still like Royal Mail? I can't find the link, but apparently 10,000s of undelivered items are sold to companies who then auction them off. A very tiny percentage goes to charity of course, the rest goes to bring up Royal Mails profits.
I think they do the same with lost luggage at the airport, but then this isnt someones pants this is something possibly valuable someones tried to sell on ebay.
Let me get this straight. Royal Mail is losing business to the much better, UK Mail and they want to modernise. This might involve 10,000s losing their jobs according to the unions. So now they're all going on strike for god knows how long.
Doesn't this have a negative affect though? I mean the public hate these strikes, it's like those greedy firemen who should be saving lives instead of striking for whatever reason they had.
We need our Amazon deliveries, you know. I hope more companies get put off Royal Mail because of this and switch to UK Mail. It's the unions fault, whats wrong with a 2.5% pay offer?
Still like Royal Mail? I can't find the link, but apparently 10,000s of undelivered items are sold to companies who then auction them off. A very tiny percentage goes to charity of course, the rest goes to bring up Royal Mails profits.
I think they do the same with lost luggage at the airport, but then this isnt someones pants this is something possibly valuable someones tried to sell on ebay.
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I'm not expecting anything in the post at the moment, but I can't promise that me and Timmargh wont go postal on their asses if they strike when Harry Potter VII comes out.
Oops, probably shouldnt have publicly admitted we read Harry Potter ^^; sorry Tim Tims.
Why did you do it Snape?!?!?! WHY??!!
Oops, probably shouldnt have publicly admitted we read Harry Potter ^^; sorry Tim Tims.
Why did you do it Snape?!?!?! WHY??!!
My DVDs came today... see, would've had them yesterday if it weren't for the strikers.
Feel bad for my stepbrother. Ordered about £50 of dehydrated food for his Air Cadet camp thing (they had to take their own grub) and it turned up today, which meant he had to fork out for it all in the shops yesterday as he left for camp before the post arrived today...
...Well, nows a better time than any for him to get a job :D
Feel bad for my stepbrother. Ordered about £50 of dehydrated food for his Air Cadet camp thing (they had to take their own grub) and it turned up today, which meant he had to fork out for it all in the shops yesterday as he left for camp before the post arrived today...
...Well, nows a better time than any for him to get a job :D
I'm never going to get my Amazon voucher now (Yes i'm still waiting O_o) and whats worse is my sister has just ordered a crapload of stuff of Amazon and i'm now going to have to listen to her go on and on and on about it.
Machie wrote:
> It's the unions fault, whats wrong with a 2.5% pay offer?
Apart from there being a whole lot more stuff that the union is objecting to other than just the 2.5% pay offer.
I'll be crossing the picket line anyway tonight, not really too bothered, just means i get an easy workload and the poor saps on the weekends have to deal with it all :-D
> It's the unions fault, whats wrong with a 2.5% pay offer?
Apart from there being a whole lot more stuff that the union is objecting to other than just the 2.5% pay offer.
I'll be crossing the picket line anyway tonight, not really too bothered, just means i get an easy workload and the poor saps on the weekends have to deal with it all :-D
Ineedsleep wrote:
> Oh great - no flaming junk mail!
And that £10 Blockbuster gift certificate I sent you. Curse these posties!
> Oh great - no flaming junk mail!
And that £10 Blockbuster gift certificate I sent you. Curse these posties!
Oh great - no flaming junk mail!
Being an ex-postie myself I fully support the CWU in their industrial action. Even though it's suicide. (Royal Mail will lose more business, which will cause more job losses, which will cause more strikes, which will lose more business etc).
When Royal Mail is no more, maybe then other management teams of other companies will take notice and pay a bit more attention to their workers rather than pretending to take notice and instead constantly trying to make their end of year figures look pretty no matter what the cost.
The crazy thing is, it's the Government that's killing its own baby. Leaving the Consignia fiasco aside (have you any idea how much it costs to change every uniform, piece of stationery, bicycle, train livery, delivery van etc from Royal Mail to Consignia in a company the size of Royal Mail? Neither did the person who thought of changing the name...), they decided to create a Post regulator, (Postcomm), who then decided to open up mail delivery to the private sector, and since 2006 Royal Mail lost its monopoly on delivering our mail, something they'd only been doing in one form or another for the previous 390 years.
Makes you wonder if they'd have been better still lumped in with BT under the GPO, when everyone was a civil servant and the word 'privatisation' was unheard of.
When Royal Mail is no more, maybe then other management teams of other companies will take notice and pay a bit more attention to their workers rather than pretending to take notice and instead constantly trying to make their end of year figures look pretty no matter what the cost.
The crazy thing is, it's the Government that's killing its own baby. Leaving the Consignia fiasco aside (have you any idea how much it costs to change every uniform, piece of stationery, bicycle, train livery, delivery van etc from Royal Mail to Consignia in a company the size of Royal Mail? Neither did the person who thought of changing the name...), they decided to create a Post regulator, (Postcomm), who then decided to open up mail delivery to the private sector, and since 2006 Royal Mail lost its monopoly on delivering our mail, something they'd only been doing in one form or another for the previous 390 years.
Makes you wonder if they'd have been better still lumped in with BT under the GPO, when everyone was a civil servant and the word 'privatisation' was unheard of.
Well i cant say im waiting for anything important, only some Verbatim Vinyl CD-R's, i only ordered Resident evil 4 yesterday so not expecting that...
What royal mail should be doing is training those whose jobs might be threatened as to prevent their jobs being lost. That way, they can be part of the solution. If however they still blantantly refuse, they should be encouraged to early retirement or resignation.
Maybe we should tell them of the packages that go missing. Thank god no package gone missing has ever happened to me.
But thats a naive view of the situation and i draw upon uni experience for this.
Maybe we should tell them of the packages that go missing. Thank god no package gone missing has ever happened to me.
But thats a naive view of the situation and i draw upon uni experience for this.
I want my supernatural dvd. I expected today. Why cant they strike some other time?
Apparently they are rejecting the 2.5% as it is in place of the other benefits that they have.
I just want my dvd
Apparently they are rejecting the 2.5% as it is in place of the other benefits that they have.
I just want my dvd
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