Postal strike

[MrBen5]

How do these postal strikes affect you?
Do they make you angry that your paying for a service but recieving it?

[4getmenot]

ooh thats a thought we were meant to have one today but I got post

[nannon]

post will still be collected and delivered but it will take longer to reach destination apparently. It annoys me - eso in work when urgent stuff needs posting!!!

[jno]

haven't had the old-fashioned postal service (twice a day, six days) for many years; I blame the management. Staff strikes are a mere pinpricks. I got mail today.

[DJerba]

I'm put out by it! I paid special delivery of almost �10 for something I needed by 1pm yesterday and guess what it still aint here!

Why is it people think they can just walk out of their jobs for a day to 'prove a point'? If I did that i'd get sacked regardless of the point i was trying to make.

This poxy country is one rule for one and one for another which springs from the Labour government.

Sack the posties that choose not to workm they dont like tha changes to their working environment well deal with it thinkgs change adapt or move out of the way for people who will adapt. Get new posties there are plenty of people coming out of school and college who are dying to get a job these people have them and choose not to do them.

Parcle still isn't here thanks royal mail for your fantastic service...outstanding!...as per usual

[MrBen5]

Hmmm, apparently what they are thinking of doing is increasing the price of stamps/postage to try to come to some sort of compromise.
In the long term , most will lose their jobs as other competition will undercut delivery charges.
It annoys me that i pay for a service and dont get it. Especially postage as a lot of things sent are sentimental and you cant make up for a feeling of a child not getting their birthday card on their actual birthday, etc.
I always remember getting a birthday card when i was 13, but didnt get it until a few days after. It has scarred me for life...

[Babz]

We have a lovely postie, he was chatting this morning and said he's fed up of the strikes. Apparently there's one tomorrow (Saturday)

[MrBen5]

Same here Babz, my postie doesnt want to strike but he feels forced into it.

[MatydaLover]

My experience of the post has always been good. How much do you pay for a first class stamp ... it will go anywhere in the UK. How many private companies could even approach that value?

[gina32]

my postie is also very nice, he tells me that the post office are thinking of stopping saturday deliveries as well! their was a strike on wednesday from 7pm for 24 hours but i know people who got post yesterday, and ive had mine today. havent heard naything about no post tomorrow and didnt see it on the website

[Rubyrose]

Well I just walked past the pub on the corner and there were about 5-6 guys sat drinking and wearing royal mail uniform and they started shouting 'Alright luv' and smiling at me... I felt quite good so it's had a good affect on me! Lol

[FUZZYBEE]

Here are a few pointers about the strike.
Royal mail want................
1. To get postie's to volunteer to do the walk of another postie if he/she is off sick........for no extra money, just for goodwill in the hope that you may need help one day.
2. To make 40% of the workforce redundant by asking the existing posties to take on an extra road within their own walk, thereby reducing the walks and postie's needed to do them.
3. Postie's to start at 6.30 instead of 4.30 this would mean deliverys at about 12.00 lunchtime or later
4. To reduce wages to cope with pension shortfall.
however Chairman Allan Leighton recieves over 100 grand a year (a 30% pay rise) and he has never posted a letter in his life.
Which one of us would actually go over to a colleagues desk when they are off and think to themselves how nice it would be for them to come back and all their work be done? My partner is a postie, he does not like to go out on strike as he doesn't get paid but he feels he has no option once you have signed up to the union. Difficult situation I know for those who rely on Royal Mail but I think it's not right to comment on a person's job when the in's and out's are not really understood. The media just report on what they see as relevant for "news".

[Babz]

Not many of us would like those conditions fuzzybee and I for one sympathise with the posties, no criticism of them intended at all. I love it when the postman calls and always have, they deserve a decent pay for turning out in all weathers and tramping the streets, most of them are really pleasant (except the grumpy one who comes in the parcel van) and I understand that once they're in the union they haven't much choice but to join in. I hope it's soon resolved with a good outcome!