coventrygull
the right one
I'm in UNISON and they are a bit crap.
royal mail has slowly gone down the shitter since i was in my teens.
i still remember the days when you got an early post then a second post around 11am.
yet in the last few years all they have done is charge us more for alot less.
being a regular buyer/seller on ebay i see first hand how shit our mail service has become.
Companies are hardly falling over themselves to provide an alternative mail distribution service. It's just not cost-effective. With the advent of email, nobody writes letters anymore, just send Xmas and Birthday cards. Most of the mail now is utility bills and junk mail. Why not pass the cost on to the utility companies and the junk mail spammers rather than hammering the workers who have to delliver the stuff?
I live in Wales mate and believe it or not there are ex-miners who vote tory its a fecking disgrace.
royal mail has slowly gone down the shitter since i was in my teens.
i still remember the days when you got an early post then a second post around 11am.
yet in the last few years all they have done is charge us more for alot less.
being a regular buyer/seller on ebay i see first hand how shit our mail service has become.
Have you ever used any other postal systems around the world? RM are one of the best I've ever used....US Postal service, Australia Post, Hong Kong and Canadian....and none of them are any where near as quick or resonably priced as RM....
They're not downgrading quality. Most people work 9-5. What benifit does a 11am second post have, when it would consist of 1-2 pieces of post. If something is urgent you send it special delivery, not that people are ever in to receive it. Cost cutting goes on in every indsutry, cheaper suppliers, buying in bulk, removing unneccesary overheads, etc... It's a way of life that people want more for less. Sometimes the near-pointless things need to go. The loss of a second delivery probably affected 3-4% of royal mail's "customers".I don't see us having one of the better postal systems justifies reducing it's quality to bring it in line with others?
Pigsy was slagging off the Postal Service, saying service was poor as there was no longer a second delivery. I was defending it (shockingly).I'm a little confused, Woodchip old boy, 2nd delivery went west years ago.
Our current dispute revolves around may issues, one being, offered 2.5% pay increase but our hours changed to bring us more in line with 9 to 5ers, thereby costing us an equivalent amount in lost shift allowance.
But Brown flattly refused to get the management to talk to the union, it was his only straight answer all PMQ's. Saying he was scared of inflation rises which isn't the case as we would be getting a pay decrease.
Strange, that's not how I read Pigsy's reply.
Anyway is your parcel about this big?
I don't see us having one of the better postal systems justifies reducing it's quality to bring it in line with others?
Royal Mail management has a certain mentality towards its staff. Basically they want to introduce new technology that will see 40,000 lose their jobs and they dont give a shit as long it is implemented as soon as possible. The postal service will be dumbed down to compete against the likes of TNT etc but to the detriment of you and I. Being offered 2.5 % is a joke when the wages are crap to start with (real inflation is about 8% taking into consideration what people are earning at this level). Also, in effect the posties will be taking a large pay cut as they will lose shift allowances when the night duties are abolished , plus the overtime will go as well. Sorting the mail later means the business post will get utmost priority so we wont get residential post until 3 pm if we are lucky. Amalgamating postal rounds so that less delivery staff are used is another way or increasing productivity but at the end of the day there will be no reward. Labour were the political party that represented the working class but no longer does so , perhaps it is because we have aspirations to better ourselves that this Government has decided to become just like the Tories before them.