Postal Strike - Is this the Death Knell of Royal Mail?

Its a real pickle and a difficult one to solve to please everyone

In our village we have a lovely post lady, who works part time. She spends time chatting to people (sometimes the only contact the elderly get) and is often late back finishing post 2pm, so later than she is paid for.

However the full time bods, who are paid double, often finish their shifts and get back before her.

Now she has angina and cannot go quite so fast, some of the blokes are fit young men and obviously go faster. She is providing a public service (kind of), so how do you recognise this?

So do you pay per hour and discourage fast delivery and efficiency, or do you continue in current system?

The work isn't that well paid, but the current system means that many can hold down a second job.

That said they are probably going to have to let the pensions thing go, as defined benefit pensions are a dying breed and really hurt companies.

And to the poster who said about dogs - our postie carries tesco gravy bones, so we often have to extract the terriers from her van and all dogs love her!!
 
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Royal Mail are obliged to deliver to every address in this country, regardless of how remote, all for the price of a stamp. The partial sell off will mean the competitors can cherry pick the most profitable parts, for example, highly populated areas such as Birmingham, Manchester etc... leaving Royal Mail their legal obligation to deliver to the non profitable areas such as rurals.

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This seems like a good idea to me? Subsidise a nationalised service where it's needed, and stop subsidising the part of the business that ought to be in the shark pool with the rest of us
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Do you think that 170,000 Royal mail employees wants a huge amount of post offices to shut.

Do you think that 170,000 Royal mail employees want a company to be sold off which will kill the company.

Do you think that 170,000 Royal amil employees diserve a pension that our lovely labour govement has tapped into which now has a billions defacit which Is why the goverment want to sell it off

Do you know that Royal mail profits last year was around 300 million plus yet the still want to make 30,000 Employees redundent. Yet at the top whom all work part time all took pay bonuses that amount to about 18 million. In a time when they say royal mail in in crisis.

DO YOU KNOW THAT ROYAL MAIL EMPLOYEES ARE GOING ON STRIKE AND IT HAS SOD ALL TO DO WITH PAY.

Its about protecting and improving a service that we have all taken for granted for far too long.

TNT, city post, UK mail all their post after they have collected it and processed it can take up to 5 days then it gets presented to royal mail to dispach.

Not every single letter that gets delayed or so called lost in the post is Royal mails fault but as royal mail employees deliver the mail to the door the company is blamed.

Royal mail Employees do not want to strike it will hit them so hard at a time when families need there wages ie ?Christmas so they are not taking this lightly as you all seem to think.

If Royal mail fold there will be no rural delivies at all.

If other companies take over the streets do you think that sending a letter or a parcel will be as cheap go look at dutch post belive me you will get a shock!!!
 
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Get real they would have to subsidise the service alot more over all your taxes will go up more as you know the goverment does not do anything for free!!!

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lisadee, I understand quite well how subsidies are funded, and I don't have a problem with my taxes being used to fund a rural postal service.

Nobody's job is safe. Most people's pensions aren't safe. Lots of us don't even have a pension.
When the going gets tough, work gets harder. Most of us learned that long ago.

And you tell me to get real?
 
Well I have a problem with it! There was nothing wrong with Royal Mail 12 years ago a service that has been running problem free for 128 years untill the Labour goverment got their hands on it. Do you not get it at all, they have worked hard and harder and will even do so till the end endlessly at a cost to themselves.
Why are penisions not safe ask yourself that one...do I have to give you the answer....
Can I ask you why you want an 140 year old business to collapse with a loss of over 100,000 jobs. Oh yes its over eggs!!!!!
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Royal Mail letters and the Post Office are completely seperate parts of the business, so this strike has absolutely nothing to do with post offices shutting
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Well I have a problem with it! There was nothing wrong with Royal Mail 12 years ago a service that has been running problem free for 128 years untill the Labour goverment got their hands on it. Do you not get it at all, they have worked hard and harder and will even do so till the end endlessly at a cost to themselves.
Why are penisions not safe ask yourself that one...do I have to give you the answer....
Can I ask you why you want an 140 year old business to collapse with a loss of over 100,000 jobs. Oh yes its over eggs!!!!!
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Oh don't be so ridiculous, of course it isn't. Surely you can distinguish between the local anecdote and the main thread.

You can rant away all you like, everyone's life is hard at the moment, and no one in their right mind tries to garner public support by spoiling everyone's Christmas.

There are divergent views about the way forward for Royal Mail, and mine clearly diverges from yours. Long live diversity.
 
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Well I have a problem with it! There was nothing wrong with Royal Mail 12 years ago

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Oh just noticed this - and I can say from first hand experience, that is total b*llocks
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My first husband worked for Royal Mail at Oxford, and I have never encountered such a backward-looking union in my whole life as the CWU were. Royal Mail was not working effectively then, and it aint now
 
Well said Lisadee!!
At last someone who actually knows whats happening and not just listening to what the papers would have you believe.
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You are misinformed there. Its all the same union and the same business, even though they dont come under the "Royal Mail" banner.
 
12 years ago emails/ the internet weren't as popular as they are now- hence more were being sent.

every new contract i sign up to (electric, mobile phone, insurance etc) all ask if i would like paperless billing- the more that happens the less post.

Woolworths was around for over 100 years- it didn't streamline, move with the times and provide what the customer wanted hence it is no longer.
it RM doesn't make any changes surely it will go the same way?

saying it has worked for the last 128 years does not mean it will work for the next 128.
 
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Well said Lisadee!!
At last someone who actually knows whats happening and not just listening to what the papers would have you believe.
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You are misinformed there. Its all the same union and the same business, even though they dont come under the "Royal Mail" banner.

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Yes I know it is the same union, however in terms of business operations they are different parts of the same group

ETA - in the same way that BT Wholesale is different to other parts of the BT group
 
I agree totaly but the changes they are wanting to put in place are not exactly going forward or going towards the service which is what they are.

Generations of my husbands family and my friends have worked and do work for the group. They have seen the changes good and bad. It is sad. And yes the union is not the best but the times that it has saved jobs, helped with working rights and bullying in the workplace is second to non.

The fact is the strike is not about pay.
 
Yes, and I sent all my Ebay deliveries by courier this week because of the Royal Mail strike... What does that tell you about where the parcel business is going???
 
i understand the parcel business is huge- but i always send my parcels via courier as they pick up from my house and drop them off on time.
 
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