Royal Mail? More like WASTE OF F***ING TIME-AIL

[gjh1971]

Im still waiting for my Spurs cup tickets to arrive

 

[eastie]

Welcome to the Forum eastie...........................i too am a Postie............we are not the flavour of the month at the moment, i have commented several times before on here and i am afraid it is making me a little battle weary!! so prob no more from me!!

Do you support Brighton?

I've supported Brighton for 30 years but I follow Eastbourne Borough now as I live on their doorstep and £9 for watching Boro is cheaper than £23 to £28 plus travel to go to the Withdean plus Priory lane is a fully covered stadium with Harveys at £2 a pint
Dont forget I'm only a Postman and our pittance of a wage doesn't stretch that far

 

[Pavilionaire]

In all seriousness our local postmen and postwomen are excellent, but I get the impresssion the national management is poor and the relations with thr workforce are shocking.

With the advent of the internet, and eBayer in particular, the Royal Mail should have been going from strength to strength. Instead there are all sorts of tin pot providers trying to deliver stuff at your home when you're out, then you're f***ed because there's no local depot they leave it at.

 

[CHAPPERS]

My postie is a lovely fella.

 

[*Gullsworth*]

My postie is a lovely fella.

So IMO am i

 

[Deleted member 2719]

So IMO am i

Rumour has it you eat all the old ladies biscuits!!

 

[British Bulldog]

I must be lucky all the stuff i've ordered from ebay recently has arrived within the week. And most of it has come through Royal Mail.

 

[Bluejuice]

I'd like to stress I'm not having a go at the humble postie. In fact I'm on their side. I'd like to know more about the situation that has lead to this action but from what I do know I can sympathise with the workers against the management.

However, regardless of items I'm waiting on having been sent or not, my house is a registered business address and we receive mountains of post every day which is why the past 3 days of nothing leads me to believe that this strike is pretty serious now.

 

[eastie]

I only JUST got my 20/20 tickets in time. They arrived this morning, despite the fact I bought them on ebay 9 days ago. Some stuff I sent at the same sort of time still hasn't arrived. An absolute disgrace if you ask me, and I would sack every postman first thing tomorrow morning.

Typical , blame the poor Royal Mail postman 1st.
there are about 8 other people who handle it before your postman gets it .

 

[Cian]

Amazon appear to be dumping Irish orders directly to our post service in Holyhead now, stuff is coming through faster than it ever did before. Waiting on some other stuff from the UK thats taking ages though.

Big "POSTAGE PAID DUBLIN" sticker on my set of CDs today, so they're doing something with it here anyway... two days to come from the .co.uk store.

 

[bhaexpress]

I only JUST got my 20/20 tickets in time. They arrived this morning, despite the fact I bought them on ebay 9 days ago. Some stuff I sent at the same sort of time still hasn't arrived. An absolute disgrace if you ask me, and I would sack every postman first thing tomorrow morning.

Check the postmark, when was it posted ? Don't blame the Post Office for lousy Ebay Sellers.

 

[Djmiles]

I remember a couple of years ago they decided to deliver our mail at around 3pm in the afternoon, but soon reverted back to the usual morning delivery.

Can't wait until rival companies start offering a decent and affordable mail service.

 

[Questions]

I was expecting a big cheque from WSCC on monday. So the subbies I pay will have to wait. I`ll ask them tomorrow when they dont get there money whether they support the strike.

 

[bhaexpress]

I remember a couple of years ago they decided to deliver our mail at around 3pm in the afternoon, but soon reverted back to the usual morning delivery.

Can't wait until rival companies start offering a decent and affordable mail service.

Don't hold your breathe, they won't. I used to work for one of their competitors, TNT. (I also did so work for the Post Office a couple of years later). TNT (in the face of stiff competition) were the worst company I have ever worked for.

 

[newhaven seagull 85]

other companies do do letter deliveries,but they just get the post office to deliver at a fraction of the price, that seems slightly unfair on the post office

 

[Djmiles]

Don't hold your breathe, they won't. I used to work for one of their competitors, TNT. (I also did so work for the Post Office a couple of years later). TNT (in the face of stiff competition) were the worst company I have ever worked for.

Oh well, can't win them all I suppose

 

[bailey]

Much like the privatisation of British Rail and the changes at BT we're going to have to go through some pain before it gets better. What we need is a single door-to-door delivery service that works at set rates for competitive distribution companies who deliver to the local hubs. This kind of model works well with Network Rail and is starting to come together at BT.

 

[*Gullsworth*]

Rumour has it you eat all the old ladies biscuits!!

Yes yes i do

 

[Bob!]

Regarding late deliveries Saturdays strike meant double deliveries on tuesday and todays strike means double deliveries on friday.
The maximum delay will only be one day

Excellent productivity! so you can deliver twice the normal load in one shift!

Our delivery office has cut our emplyees from 40 postman for 40 rounds to 36 postman for 40 rounds, work that out

But you're not able to deliver 10% more?

Nope, can't work that out