Not happy about postal strike... im waiting for things to arrive today. Very annoying as if things arent delivered tomorrow then i will have to go to post office next week which is a nightmare as no parking and hellish traffic to wade through.
I was looking forward to a lie in today - no post man banging on the door with Mrs Si's latest ebay bargin (a keep telling her that it's only a bargin if you need it!).
Alas, our local council have finally gone green and distributed glass recycling boxes so I had the joy of them smashing every single bottle as they threw it all in the lorry right outside my bedroom at around 7am >:(
LMAO - oh well !
Well our postie came bright and early with our post. We sent the Nan a birthday card but I think it is going to be belated!
OMG you lucky thing - our paper said no deliveries today, they will make one collection from the boxes and should be delivering tomorrow... I'm waiting for another job application and i need to get it this time.
Ahhhh my parcel was delivered by courier!!! Its a glass beading making kit... now i just need the lessons so i dont send the house on fire!
ah that explains why i have not had my regular 3 bits of marketing trash though the post.
Everyone is allowed to stick up for themselves.
Ah its not the workers i have a problem with - its RM. I think the best thing would be a rival company come in and really compete with RM. Its already happening with parcel services and it is easy to find better service with other companies these days for alot less money.
RM really messed up in the last few years - prices rising. millions wasted on calling themselves 'insignia' then reverting again... chief director - was he paid a huge wack or retired on a huge wack... cant remember but I know service isn't like it used to be.
I thought the strike was an indirect result of the pressure already being put on the RM by rival companies? Is it not the streamlining and rationalising in order to make themselves more competative that is upsetting the staff? But there again I've hardly seen any news for ages so I'm probably talking rubbish.
ever thought of the huge amount of trade RM is getting from E bay?OH buys a lot of fishing bits and pieces from it and they all come by mail we have never used it so much in our lives so why isn,t it paying these huge bonuses to fat cats i suspect it makes me boil with rage >:(
bit off thread but it seems we cleaners pay a higher% of tax than them ooooodon,t get me started on that >:(
marg
I thought that competition was part of the problem, that it wasn't a level playing field for RM and that RM was losing money... and the only way it could keep up was to keep raising their stamp prices etc.
I've had abysmal services from RM for at least 3-4 years now... before that they were so efficient I would've been happy to send cash in the post. They have lost loads of my mail.... when my mail would either get misdelivered to another building or disappear altogether - even one sent by Special Delivery. >:( When I complained to staff at the local post office, a few were helpful but I also had a few very impertinent replies, suggesting that I was somehow to blame for my missing mail. >:(
So when I heard they were opening it up to competition I was quite happy to hear it... but it doesn't sound fair the way things are, to RM. :(
I do feel sorry for the workers who are hard done by.... but then RM's service has been so appalling in my area lately that I don't know what to think anymore. :( I never try to get my hopes up about receiving anything in the post because there's always a chance it will never make it to my doorstep. :(
vw
I 'spose it's a question of which you value the highest: efficiency or standard of service? There is, it seems to me, an increasing tendency for a move to doing an adequate job for the least money rather than the best possible job for more money. Public services and services to the public are now often judged on their economic rather than service pedigree. That's not to say that things can't go too far the other way: e.g. BR in it's latter days, but I'd rather pay a little more are get a good job done.
Although there is hope for us yet, reading the "Allotments paying for themselves" thread shows that many of us value the quality of our food over the cheapness! ;D
RM are saying its about modernising but can you honestly say we will get a better service or even the same standard with 40000 jobs going???
RM posties are saying that they are often asked to cover staff off sick for NO EXTRA money! I agree the posties must be peed off to hell.
The problems are at the top!
Surely when Royal mail was RM rather than this semi privatised rubbish they did a service that didnt need to make money... now pressure for profits in on and i believe this is what is causing the problems - profit profit profit.
A friend at works hubbie is a postie, at xmas he slipped on ice and badly sprained his ankle... he was signed off. BUT RM said if he was off sick he wouldnt get his £100 bonus... needless to say he went to work in the sorting place rather than delivering.
Yes they are proper hard done by, my mates normally in doors by 11.30 lazy fecker, and if someones off sick then does another 4 hours for another days money. ??? :o :o :o :-X :-X :-X ;D ;D ;D