Royal Mail Axing 16,000

[arista]

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2009/Feb/Week1/15217796.jpg


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/02/05/no-headline-115875-21100545/



I am not happy with the Post
we used to get it early
now it can arrive any time after mid day.


Taking out 1 in 10 workers
will only make our UK Post service more worse.


"Dave Ward, deputy leader of the
Communication Workers Union,
said: “We are not opposed to
modernisation but these are random
savings which have not been properly worked out."

[hannah.]

more worse? :bored:

[Sod_James]

My dad works for Royal Mail.

He hasnt heard anything about job losses at his place.

[arista]

Originally posted by Sod_James
My dad works for Royal Mail.

He hasnt heard anything about job losses at his place.



They (Royal mail)
Claimed, today,
it will not be any Frontline workers.

[John.]

I am not happy with the Post
we used to get it early
now it can arrive any time after mid day.



You really have no right to complain. my post arrives at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. after it makes this journey!!!!

So let's say it's a letter from London!!

London - Glasgow
Glasgow - Inverness
Inverness - Stornoway
Stornoway - Uist
Uist - Isle of Barra!

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3699/mailzd1.png

So that's 4 plane journeys. and a ferry journey!! have i made my point??

[andyman]

Originally posted by JohnD
I am not happy with the Post
we used to get it early
now it can arrive any time after mid day.



You really have no right to complain. my post arrives at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. after it makes this journey!!!!

London - Glasgow
Glasgow - Inverness
Inverness - Stornoway
Stornoway - Uist
Uist - Isle of Barra!

So let's say it's a letter from London!!

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3699/mailzd1.png

So that's 4 plane journeys. and a ferry journey!! have i made my point?? You live near hobbits? :shocked:

[John.]

[/quote]You live near hobbits? :shocked: [/quote]

Hobbits live in Uist not Barra! it's a well know fact!! :wink: :xyxwave:

[andyman]

Uist?!?! :sad: is that on google maps?

[John.]

Originally posted by andyman
Uist?!?! :sad: is that on google maps?

Well it's so flat and water logged that it is, just a faint outline!!


heres barra though!!

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8153/barrauk3.png


Only place in the world where the plane makes a scheduled landing on a beach!!! (the big white patch up the top half of the island!!!

[andyman]

Looks like a fantastic getaway :bouncy:

[John.]

Originally posted by andyman
Looks like a fantastic getaway :bouncy:

5 hours on the boat from the mainland

1 hour by plane.

Effin nightmare when the ferry doesn't come!!

No bread and Milk, or any food deliveries!!! i think the record was nearly four weeks without a delivery, they had to fly bread and milk in!!!

highest temp 36C
lowest temp -18C
Highest wind 156MPH

Beaches more white than Michael Jackson!!

In summer nearly 24 of sunlight!!!

no crime
no worries
everyone knows everyone,

Have you ever heard of the film Whisky Galore?? well the guy that wrote it lived here and it was filmed here!!!

[andyman]

No don't know that film... I have seen the Wicca man tho, great film.




*way off topic :bigsmile:*

[John.]

Originally posted by andyman
No don't know that film... I have seen the Wicca man tho, great film.




*way off topic :bigsmile:*

Yep Way off!!!

Load of things on here for Homecoming Scotland over the summer!!

[andyman]

Homecoming Scotland?.. Is that about getting scotish peeps from overseas back to scotland?

[John.]

Originally posted by andyman
Homecoming Scotland?.. Is that about getting scotish peeps from overseas back to scotland?

Pretty much after you english folk chased so many out during the Highland Clearances!!!

[andyman]

The royal scotish peeps sold you out :thumbs:

[John.]

the royal scottish peeps stay in England u Dumass and BTW theyre German!! did you know??

Still can't get over u english killing Mel Gibson like that. al he did was flash his bottom!!

[andyman]

lol did i know that?? Lol.... :laugh2::flowers:

Many kings and queens of europe have germanic blood since the fall of the western roman empire.

Yeah that was a great film... Dam that longshanks!!!

[John.]

Ohh getting back to the mail my dad once got a letter from spain that read.

Willie the Fireman
Barra

and it got here. after all four flights and a ferry journey!!

[arista]

Originally posted by JohnD
I am not happy with the Post
we used to get it early
now it can arrive any time after mid day.



You really have no right to complain. my post arrives at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. after it makes this journey!!!!






For years it came at 9AM
that is the best time.
I have Every Right to complain.

[Sod_James]

It only arrives later now because its the new way it works.

Years ago people at my dads work would be out as soon as they finished sorting the letters at about 7 but managmnet have changed everything around.

Even now when they have finished sorting they are not allowed to leave the depot till after 9. Some new rule or somthing.