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John Prigent
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 16 October 2009 : 2:18:22 PM
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So who else is waiting for important stuff held up in the post? Mine is a new book, sent to me 10 days ago but still not received. I had an airmail packet yesterday that took 15 days from the US to Sussex - at least 5 of them after arrival at Mount Pleasant sorting office because it had a backstamp with a date from Customs inspection - which wasn't needed because it was a book on which no duty or tax was due.
I'm getting really fed up with the Royal Mail with its useless top managers and rabble-rousing union leaders. We all know how the sorting office people let down the real workers who deliver our mail, there have been enough undercover reporters over the years describing their habit of walking out after sorting a few bags instad of doing their full shifts, not to mention dealing with what's on top and leaving the bags underneath that have been waiting longest. And management is just as bad - "improving" the service by cutting out the second delivery and making the first delivery so late in the day that cheques to businesses can't be paid in. And how about the "first class" service at higher cost, so unreliable in its "next day delivery" boasts that the even more expensive "guaranteed" next-day service was brought in - and still doesn't always deliver next day. Not to mention their strange idea that closing down the feeder stations, the local sub Post offices, will make the service better. In my town of 20-25,000 people (depending on how you count the outlying villages) we used to have a main PO plus 5 sub-POs. Now we have no main office and only 3 sub-POs, one of which was opened after the main office closed because otherwise there would be no Post Office in the town centre.
Is it time for a clear-out of both top management and sorting office staff? How about closing the main sorting offices with their workshy "labour" and sub-contracting the sorting to commercial companies - who would not need to hire the current staff. Maybe sonmeone should remind both management and workers that the point of the Royal Mail is not to provide jobs for the maximum possible number of people but to get the mail from customer to recipient as quickly as possible.
Cheers
John
Sum, ergo cogito
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ToxicJR
Single Cell Organism
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 October 2009 : 2:26:59 PM
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I have a Turkish Kiz Ney flute in the post. The guy mailed it yesterday and said it will take minimum 16 days...
الجنون هو الهدية التي أعطيت لي |
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The Delayer
Dinosaur
United Kingdom
260 Posts |
Posted - 16 October 2009 : 2:58:16 PM
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While the management are not exactly innocent victims the fact that crazy union dinasours are rabble rousing simply to flex there muscels is both supid and arrogant as business like Amazon are already moving to other companies for deliveries.
The Royal Mail needs to reform plain and simple but that is simply a big no-no to the Unions.
They of course are able to get away with this as the Labour party which is finacially (as well as morally) broke, so they rely on fat cat Trade Unions to keep them afloat. ergo the TR's call the shots.
I think people in the private sector are getting sick and tired of these plublic paid parasites leaching of there hard work and money only for them to bleat about workers rights etc etc something must be done. |
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CTL666
Invertebrate
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 October 2009 : 3:54:33 PM
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I think that Royal Mail are bloomin' lucky that us average Joe Bloggs haven't really got a choice of mail carrier. If there was a decent alternative I suspect that RM would have gone under some time ago. The problem is, there isn't and the government aren't going to let the one we have go down the tube. What, exactly, they are going to do is beyond me.
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Simon Scarrow
Ape
Uruguay
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Posted - 19 October 2009 : 1:00:25 PM
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| All very well, but why should the public pay for the erection of a plaque on each house? I fail to see the historic significance. |
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stuartr
Single Cell Organism
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Posted - 19 October 2009 : 1:44:31 PM
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Originally posted by Simon Scarrow
All very well, but why should the public pay for the erection of a plaque on each house? I fail to see the historic significance.
As long as they read "The Royal Mail died here 1635-2009" then plaques at both the Royal Mail HQ and the Union HQ would seem to be appropriate. Not quite certain how they will get the Plaques there though - presumably via Fed-Ex? |
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John Prigent
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 19 October 2009 : 4:12:55 PM
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The plaques are to tell passers-by where to throw their rotting tomatoes, etcetera. Though I'm not sure what happened to my g to turn it into a q. I suspect that its tail isn't showing up.
Cheers
John
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A plaque on both their houses
