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Today was the first day of a series of 48-hour strikes by the Postal workers'.
There is another 48 hour strike starting on Monday at 3am. This means that there won't be any post delivered until next Thursday at the earliest.

They are playing right into the hands of those who want to totally privatise the Royal Mail. I don't want my mail delivered by someone who would be employed by Murdoch or Branson!!

?I don't want my mail delivered by someone who would be employed by Murdoch or Branson!!?

I, and I would suggest the vast majority of folks in this country, don?t give the slightest dam who employs them so long as we get our mail.






Officer Dibble

Officer Dibble wrote:

> I, and I would suggest the vast majority of folks in this
> country, don?t give the slightest dam who employs them so long
> as we get our mail.

If there was total privatisation of the Royal Mail we wouldn't get a regular daily delivery service. For those living in rural areas would be lucky to receive a weekly delivery.

Also, the cost of postage would rise.

That's the likely consquence of the way competition has been introduced in my opinion, regardless of whether RM was privatised. What sort of competition is it when organisations have the right to dump mail into RM for delivery at regulator-set prices with none of the obligations to cover the ground to every address?

All the benefits of economies of scale (trunking of pre-sorted business mail) with none of the requirements to operate the most labour-intensive part of the operation (the delivery). That's not competition.

We have neither one thing nor the other and the government is to blame. All they did was open up the trunking to competitors to cream off the easy to handle staff that enables a uniform, and reasonable, price.

Complete shambles.

I agree KJ.

KJ wrote:

> That's the likely consquence of the way competition has been
> introduced in my opinion, regardless of whether RM was
> privatised. What sort of competition is it when organisations
> have the right to dump mail into RM for delivery at
> regulator-set prices with none of the obligations to cover the
> ground to every address?
>
> All the benefits of economies of scale (trunking of pre-sorted
> business mail) with none of the requirements to operate the
> most labour-intensive part of the operation (the delivery).
> That's not competition.
>
> We have neither one thing nor the other and the government is
> to blame. All they did was open up the trunking to competitors
> to cream off the easy to handle staff that enables a uniform,
> and reasonable, price.
>
> Complete shambles.


Work in Logistics do you KJ?

I went to post a small parcel today and the bloke in the post office advised me it would take at least a week to be delivered because of the strike, he then advised me to send it by Parcelforce as they are not on strike and it should get there a lot sooner, does cost a bit more though.
!cool!!cool!!cool!

Strikes, walkouts, price hikes, protests.

Still waiting for my April payrise to even be negotiated never mind settled, yet I can't see any price increases/tax rises that have similarly been put on hold. It's a joke.

How many dickhead's would vote for this shower of shite again though? Are we simply getting what we deserve?

Speaking of dickheads..

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