Postal Strike

[Mutya]

It is doing my head in i have lots of stuff i need delivering and the strike is here until Wednesday

i anyone else anger?:mad:

[Scarlett.]

OMG the Royal Mail are so Childish :mad:

[Mutya]

if the post men want more money then they should have thought about that when they were doing there GCSE's :mad:

[Kaz]

At work, in one department alone, there are over 300 appointment letters waiting to be sent out to patients for consultations next week or the week after .......... thanks to this strike, many patients won't receive them in time to attend.

The same must be happening in hospitals up and down the country.

[BigSister]

I got some post this morning but i agree its so annoying!

[Retroman]

I ordered £70 worth of items from ebay, two of those items arrived this morning luckily...

The rest I won't receive for a while now no doubt, or in the worst case scenario I wont receive them at all.

Postal strikes are pathetic...
They're one of the most common form of strike, from people who knew full well what type of job they were applying for and everything that came with it. They just know that in the past, many strikes = more pay/better circumstances, so they take advantage and demand more.

[Scarlett.]

Its just pathetic
you never see the police, ambulances, or Council Workers on strike

[J.C.]

This strike is driving me totally nuts. I lost a £350 product in so called guaranteed next day delivery, then they lost my lost post application with my original receipt of posting. I rushed to catch the post man with my third effort and he threw it on the seat of his van, but sadly that was in the last minutes before a strike day, so I am almost certain that I shall find that gets lost too.

A few years ago the Royal mail were losing £1 million every day. They then started making a very good recovery and were at last beginning to make a profit. As always the unions smell a profit a mile away and always want to jump on the band waggon too early. If the strike is about the loss of jobs because of modernization then the union as usual have just shot themselves in the foot.

And what happened to the old days when service meant service.
I would never stitch my own customers up like this.
:mad:

[~Kizwiz~]

I'm waiting for a large sum of money from the settlement of my house and the post has buggered that up.

:cloud:

[Scarlett.]

They are bloody doing my head in

[Sunny_01]

well I finally saw the postman wandering to my house today, the anticipation expecting a huge pile of post and my train tickets for later today, what did I get, one stupid cardboard flyer for the gas board or something! hows that work then!

No post other than junk, great, glad to see them back at work :mad:

[Dr43%er]

"or Council Workers on strike" Errrrrrr. Not that they do any work anyway.

[Sunny_01]

Originally posted by Dr43%er
"or Council Workers on strike" Errrrrrr. Not that they do any work anyway.

I hear you! when they strike no-one really notices as life goes on as normal!

Well the great news is thanks to the postal strike I get to stay at home today rather than sit on a smelly train which would take me to a boring meeting :pat:

[Sod_James]

My dad is a postman and i dont think people appreciate how hard postman work. i cant speak for other postman but my dad works has ass off. He gets crap pay and unfair working conidtions. Personally i think the strike is valid and people who moan and groan just dont understand what its all about.

The postman dont want to strike, they have been left with no alternative. My dad didnt want to strike but the post office left them with no choice.

[Nicola]

I got 2 bank statements today so the postal strike's over round here!

[Sunny_01]

Originally posted by Sod_James
My dad is a postman and i dont think people appreciate how hard postman work. i cant speak for other postman but my dad works has ass off. He gets c**p pay and unfair working conidtions. Personally i think the strike is valid and people who moan and groan just dont understand what its all about.

The postman dont want to strike, they have been left with no alternative. My dad didnt want to strike but the post office left them with no choice.

They work no harder than anyone else does. We all work hard and expect fair pay and conditions for our efforts.

I personally do not agree with striking, it solves very little. Years ago a strike was a strike you were out until things were settled, now they have 2 days here, 2 days there. It is disruptive for those of us that expect a service yet we are not the ones responsible for their pay and conditions.

[~Kizwiz~]

Your right sunny.... a strike was a strike..... and that why things got sorted... but 2 days here or there is just doesnt make sense. I understand that they want better pay etc.... but why do the general public have to stuffer?

[Sod_James]

Originally posted by Sunny_01
Originally posted by Sod_James
My dad is a postman and i dont think people appreciate how hard postman work. i cant speak for other postman but my dad works has ass off. He gets c**p pay and unfair working conidtions. Personally i think the strike is valid and people who moan and groan just dont understand what its all about.

The postman dont want to strike, they have been left with no alternative. My dad didnt want to strike but the post office left them with no choice.

They work no harder than anyone else does. We all work hard and expect fair pay and conditions for our efforts.

I personally do not agree with striking, it solves very little. Years ago a strike was a strike you were out until things were settled, now they have 2 days here, 2 days there. It is disruptive for those of us that expect a service yet we are not the ones responsible for their pay and conditions.

No fair enough. But the goverment invested millions of public money into the postal system the last few years but no postman saw any of that.

The post office chairman recieves a salary of £1 Million a year with bonus's. Is that fair he gets so much when the workers get basic pay with a pay rise of only 2.5% when inflation is at over 4% a year.

Post office provide a service and if there not paid fairly then i see no problem with removing their labour.

My dad's first priority is his family not delivering people's mail and if stricking gets him better pay then thats what hes going to do.

[Sunny_01]

let him do that, I just said I personally dont agree with strikes.

Like Kiz said things were quickly resolved years ago as a strike meant you were out until things were sorted. With this 2 days here and there malarky things will take much much longer to be resolved.

I understand that they are doing it this way so they still get some kind of pay packet at the end of a month but seriously it is madness.

I appreciate that you and your family are your fathers no1 priority but this thread is not about you father, it is about the postal strike and we will respond as we feel about the situation. I pay a fortune in taxes which subsidise the postal service therefore I EXPECT a service from them, just the same as I would if it were NHS, Council etc....

[Ruth]

The thing is, the post office have not been paying into their employee's pensions for 14 years. The staff have to pay into their own pensions - they don't have a choice about that. The post office were not keeping up their own commitment, and staff were told that there was not enough money to pay their pensions. The government gave them money to bail them out of this situation, and what did they do? Gave the powers that be at the post office a huge salary raise, instead of using the money to put into the pension scheme where it was supposed to be. Now they have told the staff that they cannot retire at 60 (which the retirement age for the post office has always been) - they have to work until 65, and they don't have a choice about that.

The strike is inconvenient, but the fact is that the staff are not working under the conditions that they signed on for. The money is not there for their pensions, and they have not been looked after properly by their employers.

[Ruth]

Can I just say - I'm not happy about the strike either!! I was just stating that I can understand their anger and the reason they are striking, but I don't agree with the course of action they have taken in order to do something about it.

[~Kizwiz~]

Originally posted by Ruth
Can I just say - I'm not happy about the strike either!! I was just stating that I can understand their anger and the reason they are striking, but I don't agree with the course of action they have taken in order to do something about it.

I agree with you there Ruth, I understand the reasons for the strike too and I think if I was in their place I would be very unhappy about it as well. But all this flipping around.... 2 days here or there wont get the results their after.

[Dr43%er]

"My dad's first priority is his family not delivering people's mail"

And mine is to put food on my plate and not your dads pay packet and conditions. The strike is affecting me. Sorry if that is harsh, but is a simple fact. How would he feel if I did something that affected his capacity to earn?

It is a simple fact that businesses have to adapt to a changing world. It was not long ago that the RM was losing was it £1000000 a week, so the management had to change things. If they do not adapt then in the long run your dad will have no job to strike about.