Had any post today ?

[Stat Brother]

Not sure if I've had any post, but I lost all sympathy for posties earlier this week.

I had been waiting for 2 weeks for a parcel, which had been sitting in the local royal mail depot for over a week because it was too big for the postie to take (it was a shoebox).

No note through the door telling me they had may parcel, no attempt to deliver it. I had to go to the depot and ask whether they had my parcel. What a rubbish delivery service, 0/10 and that is being generous.

At my place of work we have started in the last few months to use Royal Mail's competetors because they are far more reliable. I think I'll follow that example with personal parcel post in the future.

Hmm quite a lot of things to take issue with there Strings.

How do you expect your postie to carry say 5 shoe boxes on his bike, with 16kgs of post, and all other smaller packets, for the 150 or so calls that make up your part of his round?

If we had the staff, packet delivery drivers wouldn't be taken from their jobs to deliver post.

Was the depot in question within 5 miles of your home (I will answer that for you) yes.
Would our competitors be nearer or a long way away (do you want me to answer that too).

Yes it looks like a mistake has been made, we are only human, but the error quite probably stems from RM cutbacks (or postie lazyness) which is why my colleague feel they have no option but the strike TOMORROW.

 

[strings]

Hmm quite a lot of things to take issue with there Strings.

How do you expect your postie to carry say 5 shoe boxes on his bike, with 16kgs of post, and all other smaller packets, for the 150 or so calls that make up your part of his round?

If we had the staff, packet delivery drivers wouldn't be taken from their jobs to deliver post.

Was the depot in question within 5 miles of your home (I will answer that for you) yes.
Would our competitors be nearer or a long way away (do you want me to answer that too).

Yes it looks like a mistake has been made, we are only human, but the error quite probably stems from RM cutbacks (or postie lazyness) which is why my colleague feel they have no option but the strike TOMORROW.

I actually agree with what you say. It just annoys me that I have to chase up a delivery company to see if they have my package. The lady at the depot was really nice about it too.

I understand that it probably isn't practical for a postie to struggle with a pair of rugby boots all morning, all I wanted was a little red postcard telling me that my package had arrived.

 

[Stat Brother]

With the staffing levels being slashed it is possible your box never left the depot, for a card to be delivered.

(Or it might not have been done properly due to the attitude of that particular member of staff)

I will never blindly backup my colleagues as with 100,000 manual workers, there's some right to$$pots.
But generally we do try to provide a good service.
Hence the annoyance at not being 'allowed' to cos Mandelson has got the arse with us.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Got mine in Burgess hill

 

[north stand falmer]

Fine here. Brought my TaylorMade tour burner 9.5 of ebay Tuesday night and got it this morning. Don't care what happens now.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

No post here in Grimsby due to the complete absence of scabs.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

I thought it was tomorrow that those who actually deliverthe post are striking?

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I know very little about this dispute, but I have never seen two sides (both equally) do so much 'he said that/ no I didn't/yes you did/we agreed this last night/no we didn't' - talk about pathetic.

If those are the leaders of Royal Mail, and the leaders of the CWU no wonder it's such a mess - DHL/Citilink etc are rubbibg their hands in glee.

Call off any more strikes and go to ACAS.

 

[Stat Brother]

I thought it was tomorrow that those who actually deliverthe post are striking?

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I know very little about this dispute, but I have never seen two sides (both equally) do so much 'he said that/ no I didn't/yes you did/we agreed this last night/no we didn't' - talk about pathetic.

If those are the leaders of Royal Mail, and the leaders of the CWU no wonder it's such a mess - DHL/Citilink etc are rubbibg their hands in glee.

Call off any more strikes and go to ACAS.

Yep

Yep

and thrice yep

 

[Gully]

Yes, three letters waiting on the mat when I walked through the door, including my car road fund licence which I only ordered online late Monday evening.

 

[Superphil]

Just got our post here (Friday) in deepest West Sussex, I guess the strike ain't supported by every postman