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Originally Posted by Paul ZS120
The postal service has become so crap it needs a big shake up. What happens when they try - the bloody staff strike cause they know they have it better now.
First class post used to arrive by 8am the next day. Now it's lunch if you are lucky and when lived in London the first post could be as late as 6pm. I was getting home from work before the morning mail was even delivered now that's a crap service.
First class post used to be next day delivery now you are lucky if it is two days. They have brought out recorded delivery as they lose the majority of stuff you have to pay extra so they will look after it. If you want guardnteed next day delivery you have to get 'special delivery' which is four quid dearer and is delivered in the time frame the first class post should be anyway.
The whole service is a joke and it needs the shake up. Any staff that strike should be fired and new staff brought in that actually want to do the job. Solvesthe service and the unemployment levels all in one go. This country is far too lazy. Everyone wants more wages but can't be assed working to get it
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Without blowing my top nothing you have no ******* idea mate, how dare you accuse us of going on strike due to a " shake up" , absolute bollocks, nor is it about pay. You think I want to risk my house and kids xmas over trivial issues by going on strike??
You need to get your facts right and stop reading the papers and all the other crap our mass media ( government controlled) tells you.
Bullshit about recorded deliveries too, they only prove an item has been received, the item is not traced,
traced items are special deliveries which are delivered as you state by 1pm the following day.
This is why our postal service is in such a state
We think it's fair to say that you our customers are not interested in why we are once again striking.It is also fair to say that some of the problems we are going through does not affect you either.
What you are interested in is you getting your mail and whatever mail you send getting there within the allotted time depending on what service was paid for.
But we do think that it is fair to inform you of part of the reason as to why we are striking as it affects you in a big way.
But before we go on let's get one thing out 1st,it's not about a pay rise,far from it,a pay rise if we are to be truthful is in the mix but is not as a high priority as other concerns we have.
Please just take a minute to see what we have to say.
What's affecting you then?
In 2007 we signed an agreement with Royal Mail called the Pay & Modernisation deal,in that deal there are, amongst other things, a new working practice called 'absorption'.
This is one of YOUR biggest problems,whether you are a domestic or business customer!
Before the deal any postal workers rounds that weren't covered due to staff sickness,holidays,or general shortage would be covered by other postal workers on overtime.
There would be no shortage of posties willing to do this,so there was never a major problem getting the mail delivered.
But now we have 'absorption',what this now means is that any rounds now that does not have a postal worker allocated to it is now absorbed by the rest of the postal workers in the office.
With Royal Mail insisting that mail volumes are falling they are under the impression that we know have a lot of spare time in which to absorb other posties work.
This is not the case,not only have we lost 60,000 staff in the business in the last few years (our CEO Adam Crozier has publicly admitted this) but we now have a large proportion of part-time workers which affects the way the mail pipeline works.
Mail is being delayed regularly and in vast amounts around the country in the name of absorption,so managers can report that absorption has happened and the savings have been made,some posties have to leave part of their round in the office,they also are being forced to 'cut off' or stop their deliveries as they have run out of time.
Royal Mail drivers have been taken off their packet routes to help absorption, hence packets are left undelivered for days.
This is a mass abuse of the deal we signed in 07,and posties are being bullied and threatened with taken off pay if they either refuse to do this or happen to cut off.
Later deliveries
A few years back Royal Mail ceased the 2nd delivery and you now only get one, but the truth is Royal Mail did not stop the 2nd delivery they cancelled the 1st.
We now start our rounds at the time that we started the 2nd delivery years ago and now, Royal Mail want even later start times. So while today, if you're one of the lucky ones, you might meet your postman before you go to lunch, you will soon be meeting him just before dinner. We are aware that this causes big problems for businesses all over the UK more especially those that work from home.
But that does not seem to matter to Royal Mail, later start times and later deliveries are all down to modernisation, or in other words, new sorting machines being brought in which, would you believe, take even longer to sort the mail.
This will also affect our own work/life balance and there are childcare issues, and school run problems, already rising because of it.
You may also be aware before we went to Single Daily Delivery, you could pick up any packets or signed for letters left in the morning around 2 hours or so later at your local office. That, as some of you may be aware has changed, some places you have to wait 24 hours, most 48 but there are some where you can't get the packet for nearly 72hrs.
That's if your office is local instead of on some industrial estate somewhere, and of course if it does not close before lunch.
This is Royal Mail modernisation.
If you don't like your job,then leave
This is what we read about all the time from alleged customers on the Internet news stories comment sections, and, regrettably Royal Mail management.
But who says that we don't like our job. You will find that most posties love their job, but are finding it harder and harder to provide the service they want and their customers expect, not just because of the work levels, but more so the bullying and harassment by managers at all levels of the business.
Why should we have to put up with the constant B&H and worsening of our terms and conditions, when all we want to do is get on with our job and provide a service to our customers.
We will not be hounded out of a job we love in the name of profit, or be made to feel guilty because we decide to defend our current Conditions of service, instead of allowing them to be decimated because of the inherently unfair bonus culture of Royal Mail.
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