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[Nickbat]

The CWU is one of the old-fashioned militant unions, most of which thankfully died out in the 1980s. It is not really interested in making the Post Office work, it merely opposes anything that "management" suggest (especially if they didn't think of it first!).
 

some peoples views on this subject today have surprised me, thankfully Nickbat - yours haven't 

Always happy to please, Bannjaax. 

[Martin_1962]

The RM management are rubbish as well, needs sacking.

I have seen some of the last strikes conditions - total rubbish a lot of them, definately business efficiency killers.

They all need their heads banging together management and unions

[Kevin Wood]

I have a way for improving my postman's lot. Allow him to chuck all the unwanted spam in the bin at the sorting office. What's the point of him carrying it if I'm going to bin it unread? 90% of what drops through my letter box is unwanted. I might as well seal the ruddy thing up.

Delivery times and number are irrelevant these days, IMHO. Any urgent communication is done electronically. If it's coming in the post it's either junk, as above, a magazine to which I've subscribed or a bill. I can do without any of those for a day or two!

The world is changing. RM needs to accept that. Neither management, government nor union are going about change in a sensible way, though, hence the mess they're currently in.

Kevin

[STMO999]

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I'd rather not, its about £249.50 less than i usually earn in a day 

But what you earn a day wasn't the issue ......  :-? Most of us could give a monkey's left ......
You said we couldn't get worse than what we have ...... Royal Mail charge you 39p for a letter whether it's going next door or to the little cottage at the end of the high street in Lerwick etc I think that's pretty good. Things could e better I'm sure .... I don't nor have ever worked for RM ..... but what we have at the moment doesn't seem bad to me.

Course it wasn't. But he likes to mention it now and again anyway.

[Varche]

I have a way for improving my postman's lot. Allow him to chuck all the unwanted spam in the bin at the sorting office. What's the point of him carrying it if I'm going to bin it unread? 90% of what drops through my letter box is unwanted. I might as well seal the ruddy thing up.

Delivery times and number are irrelevant these days, IMHO. Any urgent communication is done electronically. If it's coming in the post it's either junk, as above, a magazine to which I've subscribed or a bill. I can do without any of those for a day or two!

The world is changing. RM needs to accept that. Neither management, government nor union are going about change in a sensible way, though, hence the mess they're currently in.

Kevin

Well that is Britain for you. Marketing led. You don't get anything like the amount of junk mail that Britain does in other so called civilised countries. To use Nickbats words We ought to "Wake Up"! It is interesting that in our village the only junk mail is exclusively received by the immigrants!

I use the post quite a lot to communicate with elderly(non Internet equipped) relatives in the UK as well as occasional phone calls. I wrote regularly to a dear Uncle, for years, who lived in a nursing home called Grosvenor House on Grosvenor Road. Despite using the correct postcode None of my mails ever arrived. The reason I hadn't put the house number on. No letters were ever returned. I suspect there is no pride in doing a good job anymore. If I was the postman I would have asked and used my noddle. He no doubt would argue that he hadn't time to ask.

V 

[Dishevelled Den]

Well that is Britain for you. Marketing led. You don't get anything like the amount of junk mail that Britain does in other so called civilised countries. To use Nickbats words We ought to "Wake Up"! It is interesting that in our village the only junk mail is exclusively received by the immigrants!

I use the post quite a lot to communicate with elderly(non Internet equipped) relatives in the UK as well as occasional phone calls. I wrote regularly to a dear Uncle, for years, who lived in a nursing home called Grosvenor House on Grosvenor Road. Despite using the correct postcode None of my mails ever arrived. The reason I hadn't put the house number on. No letters were ever returned. I suspect there is no pride in doing a good job anymore. If I was the postman I would have asked and used my noddle. He no doubt would argue that he hadn't time to ask.

V 

.........this inclination is sadly becoming commonplace throughout the workforce in this country.

Whilst exercising the grey matter to solve a small problem should be a foregone conclusion, it seems that there are many ‘noddles’ out there devoid of any real content whatsoever.

[neilr]

its a business decision to return undeliverable items to senders. the millions of "lost" items are normally destroyed because there is no returne address. So called correctly addressed items have wrong numbers on them. who get the blame postmen. just think all make mistakes especially if human. the "new" system being introduced in RM is canadian ans was scrapped by them cos it dosent work. does this say somthing for management. mandleson is obviously iin someones pocket again. should even be allowed in a party that alone government, but weve all seen that they can cheat expenses and are above the law. just another note if goverment have nothing to do with RM as they claim why do they take the profits and why did the only people at RM to get bonuses and rises senior managers
rant  over

[Agemo]

Personally I would not advocate anyone to strike, but it is a free Country (So far) and the choice is theirs.
Oh, and nice Avatar Zulu.

[Banjax]

The CWU is one of the old-fashioned militant unions, most of which thankfully died out in the 1980s. It is not really interested in making the Post Office work, it merely opposes anything that "management" suggest (especially if they didn't think of it first!).
 

some peoples views on this subject today have surprised me, thankfully Nickbat - yours haven't 

Always happy to please, Bannjaax. 

8-) 8-)

[KillerWatt]

Am I right in thinking some countries make people on benifit do some sort of community work for their money? It sounds like a good idea to me.

Yes some countries do that, and yes it's a good idea.

The only problem we seem to have with that is the law says if you do any work whatsoever (including unpaid/charity), then you are deemed to be unavailable for work which means no benefits.

All it would take is a simple law amendment, but our guardians are obviously too busy filling in expenses to worry about doing the country any real good.

[Banjax]

Am I right in thinking some countries make people on benifit do some sort of community work for their money? It sounds like a good idea to me.

Yes some countries do that, and yes it's a good idea.

The only problem we seem to have with that is the law says if you do any work whatsoever (including unpaid/charity), then you are deemed to be unavailable for work which means no benefits.

All it would take is a simple law amendment, but our guardians are obviously too busy filling in expenses to worry about doing the country any real good.

at a guess i'd say the UK is more averse to breaking basic human rights than some of our continental cousins (ie ban on forced labour, so maybe 99% would be happy to work, but 1% would take the gov't to the cleaners) 

[TheBoy]

I can't fault our local delivery people here - mostly get it right (get the odd one for next door), and always try to do something with parcels - try neighbours, hide somewhere etc.

I particularly liked little blondie we had over the summer holidays, but probably not due to her delivery skills