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dynatech wrote:

> Strikes, walkouts, price hikes, protests.
>

And life was so much better under the tories especially for people in mining communities etc or has that little bit of quite recent history escaped you.

Are the Government to blame for not intervening Yes but as a former postie I suggest that you have to look at the people making the decisions for Royal Mail.

The reality is the vast majority, if not all, of the top management have no idea about performance and how its actually achieved.

For example the sorting rates of the wonderful machines they want to install to save money are shite.

They can sort lots more, a hell of a lot more, quickly but they arent accurate, they have a tendency to jam resulting in torn up letters (the ones people get in plastic envelops with a plastic apology) and missort.

But these 'errors' are rarely recorded, when they are reports are doctored to show they aren't that bad and the higher management because they have no experience of the operation believe them and continue to press on with the best way forward in their view which is machines.

Machines cost and to pay for them cuts in other areas have to be made = pissed off customers because of pissed off posties!

Like most things the buck stops with the Government but in many cases (Northern Rock) it's people making decisions on their behalf and making the wrong ones who are to blame.

Oh dear. Why do fools have to bring party politics into this, the truth is this set of piss-taking bastards ARE worse than the last set of piss-taking bastards. Where the fuck is my April pay rise? Why can't I get my 13 years of pension contributions back and reinvest it myself?
And now, due to the governmental belligerance and dishonesty, I'm having to wait over a week for items that are legally mine. Great isn't it?

dynatech wrote:

> Oh dear. Why do fools have to bring party politics into this,


Your previous post on this subject:

"How many dickhead's would vote for this shower of shite again though?"

randyandy wrote:

> For example the sorting rates of the wonderful machines they
> want to install to save money are shite.
>
> They can sort lots more, a hell of a lot more, quickly but they
> arent accurate, they have a tendency to jam resulting in torn
> up letters (the ones people get in plastic envelops with a
> plastic apology) and missort.
>
> But these 'errors' are rarely recorded, when they are reports
> are doctored to show they aren't that bad and the higher
> management because they have no experience of the operation
> believe them and continue to press on with the best way forward
> in their view which is machines.
>
> Machines cost and to pay for them cuts in other areas have to
> be made = pissed off customers because of pissed off posties!

When I worked for RM (14 years ago now) these sorting machines were just being introduced. They had been designed and built by an Icelandic company (forgotten it's name) and they were always breaking down. The RM management had to use them despite the problems caused as there had been a huge financial investment in this "new" technology.

The majority have had their brains mashed with bullshit & trivia for so long, I'd be amazed if people had the bottle to vote this lot out. I heard some morons on the radio today saying the postmen were selfish cos 'There'd be mayhem if everyone on poor wages went on strike', that about sums up the UK sheep. This country should be ground to a halt with strikes, but people are so easily pacified there's little chance of that even if they doubled petrol prices and income tax.

I'm sick of waiting for my pay rise, so fuck it, a few weeks on sick are calling. Unfortunately I'm in Unison who, whilst being utterly useless as regards any issues with our employers, are too busy funding the government to bother opposing their shit policies.

I think your referring to NP4000's.

Part of my job was to occasionally check that 'hazard boxes' were checked by staff (basically looking for staff failures, not machine failures) they often weren't.

Partly because staff couldn't be arsed.
Partly because new staff weren't trained and told they had to check them.
Partly because staff didn't have time to check them for various 'management' reasons

Part of my job was to also check the hundred plus other boxes on the machines that were not 'hazard boxes'.

I found more missorts in none 'hazard boxes'.

It took a lot for new 'hazards boxes' to be created but once they were checks on their missorting were no longer done apart from the occasional staff failure checks.

This machine missorting was therefore hidden but the staff failures, blame etc were always shown as the reason for the faults.

randyandy wrote:

> I think your referring to NP4000's.

The sorting office where I worked had a brand new, state of the art automatic sorting machine. I'm sure it was manufactured in Iceland. I can't recall why the RM went to an Icelandic company to purchase this machine?

I do remember that we had no end of problems with it ranging from it "eating" the letters to total breakdown.