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...will be glad, the union and Royal mail have reached an agreement. woop, no more strikes.

good I might get the Cds ive ordered sometime soon

Although I support the  Postmans strike.

so do i and it means i can order some stuff off the internet again, wahey!

Good.

Lazy barstewards.

i'm glad you support us, most of the people i've spoken to have, but the press always seems to get the negative ones, bunch of fuckers.

Actual;y, I've changed my mind.

Can you go on strike again? It'd save me from having to do any work. Thankyou please.

I used to like driving by the striking postmen o the way to work.........little marquee style thing on the side of the road.......

Good, glad you have all sorted it, now if you could deliver all my cheques I will happy to receive money and never have a fucking cash flow problem again, cunts

rant over

About fucking time too.

nothing is agreed yet and some are still out on strike.dont count on it being over yet!

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It's got to go to the main Union leader to go over it and then we'll be balloted on whether we think it's good enough. I personally can't see many saying 'no' as most people are relieved that the strikes are now over.

dont count on it.i can see many of the union members rejecting the proposals put to them.even if the union reccomend they accept the deal.

the improvements will be minimal and if posties cave in then all the strikes would have been a waste of time and would deem the union as useless.

i think the outcome will probably be to accept the offer but it will be a close call.and if it goes either way it wont surprise me

Yay does that mean I might finally get the present my friend brought me back from New York and posted to me OVER A WEEK AGO!!

Well what you can see and what i know from working inside the Mail Centre are two different matters altogether, most people who have been out on industrial action are thankful that an agreement has been agreed and i can't see many people not agreeing to it.

I wasn't out on strike because of the pay situation, my main gripe was the flexibilty side of things.

No surprise that the two main areas of the country still suffering from unofficial 'wildcat' strikes are Liverpool and East London.

Workshy, grasping cunts...............................

Yeah i don't really understand what their problem is?, all the other delivery office's have carried on working with the new start times.

Place's like Liverpool and Glasgow are extremely militant though.

i know it was the condtions more than money.and you can obviously give the opinions of your fellow workers in the mail centre.
but remember this is a national dispute, so not all workplaces will be of the same opinion.
as nobody knows what the agreement is yet, we can only speculate anyway.

I thought it was more about robbing your pensions?

or maybe proud people with spirit and fight, who will give up many days pay  to fight for a cause they believe in?

pensions,earning potential,flexible working,redundancy package reductions,etc,etc

Sigh. If you don't like your pay and conditions then fuck off and get a job where you do like them.

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Bloody quasi-public sector businesses.

Maybe, but I think my reason are more likely............

customers will suffer too talk talk.when its no longer a public sector company and the cost of sending a letter increases hugely.

i thought you'd be backing the posties?
do a bit of research on it.it'll change your attitude i'm convinced of that.
posties are trying to protect what they have, not ask for more.
is that unreasonable?

Well we shall see. Take the monopoly away and see how the free market responds. I tell you, Royal Mail would be dead within a year. It is top heavy, over staffed, has too many unrealistic expectations and is just like any other public sector organisation.


When the rest of us fuckers have to run businesses, compete, fight tooth and nail to make a living then yes, it is.

Errrrrrrrm yes ok, the fact is there is no competition, TNT & DHL currently pay us to deliver their mail so go figure.

Over staffed!?, hahahaha just show's what little you know, we've never been so under staffed.

There's always courier  :soapy tit wank:  :D

the monopoly was taken away some time ago talk talk.fact is other companys take the profitable part away from royal mail by uncutting them.then as spud has pointed out,pay royal mail to do the bit that isn't profitable,ie posting letters.royal mail do this part as they are legally obliged to do so.thats good fair buisness sense from our government eh?

for someone who normally is quite clued up on subjects.i'm a bit disapointed with your narrowminded drivel on this one.

if royal mail was treated as a public service and left alone then it would be fine as it was in years past.
constant changes,cutbacks,and closures have dragged the royal mail backwards and both staff and customers are suffering for it.

Fair enough.

I just think striking is completely counter productive. Nobody wins.

And it doesn't happen in the "real" commercial world. Hence my comments about quasi-public sector organisations.

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striking was very much the last resort, the management have been completely unrealistic in their attempts to force through the changes they want.

i had a 'discussion' with a stuck-up receptionist lady at the Holiday Inn the day before the strikes last week, she told me that everyone's in the same boat, but no-one else is striking. well, not really love... not at all.

under-researched know-it-all people suck.

Ive just had to open about 2 weeks worth of post at work this morning - took hours!!  :x

on the plus side my pressie came!!

From what I've read a lot of the working practices at Royal mail beggar belief in the real world, such as knocking off early if your work is done and the non automatic covering for colleagues who are on holiday or sick etc.  The pensions and beneifts you recieve are better than anywhere in the private sector.

all these strikes have done is lose the workers public support and push forward the end of the royal mail as it currently stands.

When people are on holiday or sick their duties are suppose to be covered by what we call 'leave reserves', those 'leave reserves' get a list of those duties that are available which they then put down as their 1st,2nd & 3rd choice, it is then allocated to them but we're so short staffed that 8 times out of 10 nobody is covering them absent duties as there aren't enough leave reserves to cover them.

I think all postmen should  be sacked, and with the money that is saved everyone should be given a free computer. This way all forms of written correspondence can be sent via email. Presents and stuff can be delivered by small people dressed as elves......or even dressed as Elvis.

I really couldn't give a monkeys either way, so my post didn't arrived last week, so what, it was quite nice not to have bills piled through my letter box.

I'm not having a pop at you personally here as I appreciate you are just explaing how things work, but when my boss is away I take on most of his duties. This means longer hours and much more work but it has to be done. I dont get paid overtime for it. i dont get any help from anyone else. I just get some kudos from senior management when they see things dont go wrong in my bosses absense. This is the way things are in most private companies

How else do they carry the letters then ?

Just a case of tying up some "minor paperwork", so I've heard.....