Royal mail

[Buzzer]

Whilst I do sympathise, please don't blame the posties. Underfunded for years, management taking the right royal piss out of them with working conditions, hours, overtime, what they're expected to deliver (junk mail), changing shifts, employing scab labour, f***ing around with their pensions, taking the profitable parts of the the RM and selling it to the highest bidder leaving the unsexy unprofitable bits, shafting them about bonuses, shafting them about Christmas working....

You name it, the posties have put up with it. They're a good bunch, most of them career posties who just want to earn an honest crust in return for getting up at 4 in the morning and working BLOODY LONG shifts but management and the Government are complete arseholes.

A few years ago I do know that they were talking about moving Sussex sorting offices to Gatwick which would have meant YOUR local postie having to f***ing commute. It's outrageous, it's a scandal and it really beggars belief that anyone stays a postie.

Your postie deserves all the support he can get 'cause he's continually getting shat upon.

You want a decent post service? Then demand that they are invested in.

 

[withdeanwombat]

My postie pitches up here at about 2 in the afternoon.Whatever the weather he is cheerful,knows my first name,and even comes back later if I'm out to deliver my football programmes.

I'd be a bit miffed if I got the poor service which prompted the thread,but I suspect most people are reasonably satisfied with what is usually a good service.

Who'd be a postie? Anyone else see the huge queue outside the Brighton sorting office for xmas work? Them. They would.

 

[Stat Brother]

One of the problems is that there are piss poor posties who give the rest of us a bad name. It is a reasonably unskilled workforce of 100,000+.
But a la the 1970's they have union 'protection' and will continue to drag the rest of us down, with stunts like the ones mentioned here.

 

[bhaexpress]

I do, I love being a postman.

Sadly though there is a thousand and one things wrong with RM, and the people charged with sorting it out, just can't, again for a thousand and one different reasons.

But the basic problem is institutionalised (sp) slackness.

We are all entitled to make the odd mistake, but if you have been particularly shat upon, on a regular basis, you need to speak to your depot DOM, not call centre. Writing on the letter makes no difference, unless the other person complains.

For those of us who do try, PLEASE make sure you know the EXACT day you have been messed around, as 99% of the time you won't have the same postie for 6 days a week.

Don't get me wrong, I have no complaints with the Post Office and having worked for their IT department in the past I sympathise with the management issues, you're right, there's a lot of dead and rotten wood there.

People who criticise the Postal Service in this country should try some of those abroad, believe me we have an excellent service compared to most. I might add that in the past I have used people like Fedex and UPS and been very unimpressed with both, especially when you consider how much they charge. I might also add that I also have worked for TNT and in the face of some stiff competition they were by far and above the worst organisation I have ever worked for.

 

[Peteinblack]

Well, when that smug slime-ball Mandelson privatises it, we'll be lucky to have a daily delivery at all I expect.

Privatisation would be followed by:

1. A massive wave of cost-cutting redundancies.

2. Massive bonuses to 'reward' or 'incentivise' the executives and other
parasitic 'suits' and business conslutants who would be drafted in to
advise on efficiency drives.

3. The daily delivery would be deemed 'uneconomic', and people would be
expected to collect their own mail from designated 'franchised' retail
outlets.

Given how shambolic (and heavily subsidised) our railways are 12 years after they were privatised, I cannot understand how anyone can possibly believe that the solution to the problems of the Post Offuce is privatisation.

Are they flames I see before me? Quick, quick, give me some petrol to douse them with.

Mandelson, you're a total

 

[champion7]

Thats all down to new working practices brought in which means they dont start work until later and the priority after sorting is to get the business mail out and delivered to reach targets. Last Thursday a postman delivered to our street at 4.45pm which is better than some do and chuck it all back in a letterbox as their shift is finishing.

The po said that they would do away with the cost of second class post to improve the delivery time,what they have actually done is got rid of first class deliveries and are charging first class prices for second class deliveries.

 

[Djmiles]

The po said that they would do away with the cost of second class post to improve the delivery time,what they have actually done is got rid of first class deliveries and are charging first class prices for second class deliveries.

Never was such thing as first and second class, first class is just for people gullable to think their post will get there quicker if they pay more!

 

[Taybha]

Was a postie for 17 years and the 1st 15 were quality,i left 7 years ago after a footy knee smasher prevented me from walking the walk...its basicly gone to pot with all manner of money saving twat ideas that just cut a service to the bone then expect the staff to just carry on as normal,our mail posted in brighton does indeed go to gatwick to be sorted,(how f***ing mental is that) then driven back down to brighton via a train of lorries,nice eco friendly royal mail idea that eh! where as i used to be on my walk by 6.30 am the lads n lasses now do not leave the office till well after 9am in out of town locations,chatting to a pal the other day who still works there b4 the hereford game and it seems there are more brilliant money saving ideas in the pipeline,so be prepared lol.

 

[Alfred the greatx]

Whilst I do sympathise, please don't blame the posties. Underfunded for years, management taking the right royal piss out of them with working conditions, hours, overtime, what they're expected to deliver (junk mail), changing shifts, employing scab labour, f***ing around with their pensions, taking the profitable parts of the the RM and selling it to the highest bidder leaving the unsexy unprofitable bits, shafting them about bonuses, shafting them about Christmas working....

You name it, the posties have put up with it. They're a good bunch, most of them career posties who just want to earn an honest crust in return for getting up at 4 in the morning and working BLOODY LONG shifts but management and the Government are complete arseholes.

A few years ago I do know that they were talking about moving Sussex sorting offices to Gatwick which would have meant YOUR local postie having to f***ing commute. It's outrageous, it's a scandal and it really beggars belief that anyone stays a postie.

Your postie deserves all the support he can get 'cause he's continually getting shat upon.

You want a decent post service? Then demand that they are invested in.

Well said sir
A die hard Tory sticking up for the workers, what ever next, HB+B will be on here soon demanding more social housing to be made available for the poor of Hove.

 

[Buzzer]

Well said sir
A die hard Tory sticking up for the workers, what ever next, HB+B will be on here soon demanding more social housing to be made available for the poor of Hove.

Cheers. I think you'll find us one nation Tories have always argued that some local services are too important to be sold off to the highest bidder. The royal mail should be nationalised and treated with the same respect as the health service. It's as important IMO.

P.S.we're not all like hb&b. Honest

 

[NMH]

'Teach you to TIP at Christmas, innit.