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Just been announced the Postal Workers are out on
strike next week, please remember this when you
are sending out, and waiting for your watches.... :?
jokers
Happy days...
Many items incoming next week :roll:
RMSD isn't affected by the strike i was told this by my local postmaster :D
we've been having strikes almost weekly in London for the last couple of months, so probably won't be any different here :evil:
very bad :evil:
It is more than frustrating. Causing me major problems at work :evil:
As mentioned though RMSD seems to work normally, albeit at a cost.
How's that going to work? Does RMSD go via a completely different route or something?Originally Posted by djjuk
I think they are shooting themselves in the foot!!
There are two strike days planned; next Thursday and Friday. Mail Centre and driving staff on the first day, and collection & delivery staff on the second day, so this will affect everything including RMSD, unless management are going to do their walks for them.
I don't know what the posties are complaining about, delivering letters can't be that hard as a job, plus it's better than walking the streets :D
Fedex not bothered?
Paul
GOT...TO...KILL...CAPTAIN STUPID!
Major recession, company's suffering, people struggling, banks taking the P**S!..................I know what we should do......LETS STRIKE!......that'll make things better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CRAZY.
“Don’t look back, you’re not heading that way.”
:bs: muppets
Tell me about, RMSD seems to be the only things getting to me in any sort of time frame at the moment
Last time this happened PO told me RMSD was getting priority but by no means guaranteed service
hopefully international UPS isn't affected for the 3-LE i just ordered!
Staff not on strike, along with managers and all the admin staff will be working to keep as much of the network going as possible, with collections of RMSD from Post Offices, and deliveries of RMSD to customers.
It won't be guaranteed, as they will suspend the guarantee for the strike period, but it will still be the only way to get something around the country via Royal Mail on those days.
Of course, other couriers are available, but they will undoubtedly be busier too so it might be a couple of days when folks have to be patient... :)
It's a brave man who crosses the picket line in 2009. Best assume there is simply no royal mail any more, and deal with the rapidly increasing number of companies which are dumping royal mail for good.
...but what do I know; I don't even like watches!
I feel really sorry for them!
No, really! Imagine being expected to work until the end of your shift only to be shafted with an annual payrise that is only 6-7 times RPI.
Poor b*stards...
:D :lol: :lol:
"I looked with pity not untinged with scorn upon these trivial-minded passers-by"
Oh great. My newest toy was just shipped a few days ago. Wankers.
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This time it's a national strike.
I don't get the headlines we've seen already:
"Half day strike planned for Shetland's 4th largest sorting office canteen night shift staff. All UK residents told to expect no post for 3 months"
Hurrah! more dodgy stats and a thread that should probably end up in the bear pit.
The Times from 25th April:
Royal Mail risked a showdown with trade unions yesterday by imposing a pay freeze on its 181,000 staff, the biggest workforce to have been penalised so far in the recession.
What annoys me is that there is no real option, at least I can get any parcel sent RMSD from town if i'm out. If a courier company can't deliver, it gets dumped in some shed 15 miles away. There's progress :roll:
lies, damn lies, and statistics etc. etc. :wink: Even 6 months ago it looks like the unions were looking to cause a fuss about pay when the private sector was shedding jobs left right and centre. I saw a postie on TV last week actually complaining about the suggestion of having to work 'til the end of the shift because there is currently an unofficial policy of job and finish. How they can complain when they are still in jobs and have a bloody good pension plan I'll never know!Hurrah! more dodgy stats and a thread that should probably end up in the bear pit.
The Times from 25th April:
Royal Mail risked a showdown with trade unions yesterday by imposing a pay freeze on its 181,000 staff, the biggest workforce to have been penalised so far in the recession.
What annoys me is that there is no real option, at least I can get any parcel sent RMSD from town if i'm out. If a courier company can't deliver, it gets dumped in some shed 15 miles away. There's progress :roll:
And don't get me started on Bob Crowe and the RMT! Maybe this should go to the pit :lol:
Job and finish? whats that?
I assume they dont get paid as much as a banker, but hell, what a cracking number!
My local postie is a real community hero (I live in a village just big enough to still have a postman allocated to it) and he doesn't want to strike - he can't afford to lose the pay - but no way he can cross a picket line. The strike will fail to achieve a bean except bring the end of the Royal Mail as we know it closer. A sad business.
Steve
In London there has already been multiple strikes, and RMSD certainly wasnt working. Nor were the post office honoring the service guarantee.
I saw my postie at a car boot sale today, said he's not going on strike, but if no mail reaches the sorting office, not much he can do about it.
no problems at all so far in northern ireland. wonder if it will also hit here?
Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the industrial dispute, we'll all miss the ability to send a letter/parcel anywhere in the UK for a uniform price when it's gone.... :(
Royal Mail management and the unions have not faced up to the fundamental challenge of changing the business to take account of the vastly increased packet/parcel traffic, whilst managing the decline of letter traffic.
By not doing so, they have put the whole national uniform tarif at risk.
There's a tariff on their uniforms?! No wonder they're going on strike- they shouldn't have to pay to be allowed to wear those shorts.
Yes its been such a nightmare in London, when will the madness end! Maybe we should employ the junk mailers as I seem to get loads of that every day.
I agree with employing the junk mailers, mine arrives daily!
Although theres at least one item on the sc I fancy, I'm not going to buy it.
I have a nasty idea it wont ever turn up, and will be 'lost' in a wharehouse, and possibly never found.....
Well, Special Delivery and/or Insured items will be processed and delivered on time wherever possible. WCS - they may be a day or so late. But they will get through. RM Managers are going to deal with these items personally. So if your watch turns up on Friday, delivered by an exhausted looking person, apparently lost, please go easy on him/her.
Don't ask how I know this :)
Just been speaking to my postie and he reckons there's no support for it up here ("bloody madness", were his exact words), but he's going to make the most of his bonus long weekend.
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