Royal Mail to be sold off

[Beach Hut]

Mind you the wife has just pointed out she has a small pension to come with them so perhaps a good idea about the pension fund.........

 

[Neil]

Being a postie myself we are being shafted at the moment by our competitors mail which we are delivering for pennies.
They have creamed off all the high profit buisness mail
and we then have to deliver it , how stupid is that .
If your wondering why your bank statements now come days later than they used to its because of TNT and all the others who deliver it to Royal Mail in bulk and we deliver it the final mile.
Although we have less letters to deliver, what they dont tell you is that the poor old postman has to deliver masses of brochures, packets, directories junk mail etc and the bag weights have gone up massively.
We are not starting now till 10am as we have to sort our own mail before delivery and expected to deliver at 4 mph
Junk mail is Royal Mails biggest earner

 

[Flavor Flav]

Yeah your right, 41p to send a letter from Penzance to arrive next day in Aberdeen is a right f***ing con. twat.

I didn't say it was a con at the moment did I you tosser. I'm saying when its privatised prices will go up as whoever buys it will want to recoup some of the money. Good to see you had a valid point to make you pathetic idiot.

 

[Peteinblack]

Results will be the same as many other privatisations:

Cuts in services to the public, to save money.
Cuts in front-line staff, to save money.
Higher prices, to make more money.
Obscene salary increases for the new managers, so they can claim 'comparability' with other private sector bosses.

Same old con that the dumb British public will fall for, because the Tories and the media perpetrate an Orwellian mantra that: 'Private sector is wonderful, public sector is shit'', which is simply the usual Right-wing dogma.

Those on here welcoming this, and slagging of Royal Mail, will be moaning like f*** in a year or two's time at the decline in service after privatisation.

Be careful what you wish for.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Results will be the same as many other privatisations:

Cuts in services to the public, to save money.
Cuts in front-line staff, to save money.
Higher prices, to make more money.
Obscene salary increases for the new managers, so they can claim 'comparability' with other private sector bosses.

Same old con that the dumb British public will fall for, because the Tories and the media perpetrate an Orwellian mantra that: 'Private sector is wonderful, public sector is shit'', which is simply the usual Right-wing dogma.

Those on here welcoming this, and slagging of Royal Mail, will be moaning like f*** in a year or two's time at the decline in service after privatisation.

Be careful what you wish for.

Absolutely correct.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Cable is a traitor. I hope the liberals get no seats in the next general election.

And a turn coat.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The railways are one of the most expensive and complex in the world...after privatisation. The energy companies are falling over themselves to flog their power in our country as we're seen as as an easy poorly regulated market where they can charge a premium....again after privatisation. So, the Royal Mail is to be privatised?

Oh well, at least it makes a change from devising cuts which mainly affect the poor, families and pensioners.

And Cameron says we're in this together. My advise is spread the cuts across the board and leave the posties alone.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

And 'Big Society'...why not be honest and say it's a way of replacing public sector workers with volunteers? I guess the banner is not as snappy?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Grrrrrrrrrrr.

 

[Don Quixote]

How do the liberal democrats sleep at night?

 

[Peteinblack]

How do the liberal democrats sleep at night?

Depends which face is on the pillow, I guess.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Royal mail desperately needs dragging into the 21st century either way. Bloody awful service, always a mile long queue in town and not enough staff, and the ones that are there don't seem to give a f***.

And you think there will be more staff if it's privatised?
How does it need dragging into the 21st century?

 

[Stat Brother]

I didn't say it was a con at the moment did I you tosser. I'm saying when its privatised prices will go up as whoever buys it will want to recoup some of the money. Good to see you had a valid point to make you pathetic idiot.

I came home in a bit of a grump, but nevertheless the point still stands.

Even if the price was doubled to 82p that would still prove to be fantastic service, for a next day letter between Brighton and London.

Proving how bloody good and under valued our service is.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

And they'll probably rob the £26 billion in assets off the pension fund too.

Sounds like they will put the £26Bn assets of the RM pension scheme into the Financial Assistance Scheme , wiping out the £8Bn deficit which leaves £18Bn to boost the FAS , in effect postal workers will be helping to subsidise those people who have lost their pensions when various company schemes have been wound up.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Improvements to Royal Mail ?
1) Reduce the staff headcount by half so they work twice as hard for the same payrate.
2) Remaining staff have their contracted hours reduced to boost productivity.
3) No Saturday or Bank Holiday deliveries.
4) Afternoon only delivery to residential addresses made by part time agency staff to reduce costs further.

 

[Stat Brother]

Quite why we still deliver Saturday, is beyond me.
At least 40 weeks of the year, realistically we have 5 days work spread over 6 days.