posties

[stez]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8296660.stm

well no one likes having their easy life threatened

[purpleronnie]

Maybe you should try it then, everybody thinks its a doddle, it aint.

[Dr The Singh]

It's there right to strike, but then it's the right of the consumer to get pissed of the yearly xmas strike!!

[Sir Fynwy]

Maybe you should try it then, everybody thinks its a doddle, it aint.

I know it's not always an easy job but without modernisation the post office will lose all of the lucrative business to DHL, TNT, Fedex and the like and be left with the expensive to run deliveries making it even more difficult for the business to survive, the current way of working can't continue.

[lou]

Maybe you should try it then, everybody thinks its a doddle, it aint.

In todays current climate Im sure theres plenty of folk that would happily take over the jobs if the current posties dont like them.

Loads of people have lost pay or had no increases lately ffs theyre not the only ones

[Jon the Hat]

Another union more interested in it's own survival than the future of it's members - promising results they will never deliver and stirring up a strike.

[purpleronnie]

In todays current climate Im sure theres plenty of folk that would happily take over the jobs if the current posties dont like them.

Loads of people have lost pay or had no increases lately ffs theyre not the only ones

I know that so dont you think the workers should look after themselves, so few workers in britain do anymore.

[Ozwin]

I'd happily be a postman right now, they could stick a clause in my contract saying I can't strike too if it means I'll be in a job.

[Sir Fynwy]

I know that so dont you think the workers should look after themselves, so few workers in britain do anymore.

Workers reacting to changes in a way that destroys the whole business is not in anyones interest, change has to happen, it's all about getting the best for both sides.

[hairy]

Workers reacting to changes in a way that destroys the whole business is not in anyones interest, change has to happen, it's all about getting the best for both sides.

As I understood it, there has been very little consultation on the changes which would be better for both sides.

[Guest]

I know that so dont you think the workers should look after themselves, so few workers in britain do anymore.

The problem with that is the workers win, then people on the next rung kick up a fuss because they are now at the same level as the successful workers. And so it begins, until the original workers end up being no better off than they were in the first place.

[stez]

Maybe you should try it then, everybody thinks its a doddle, it aint.

been there, done that.

[FilboFox]

I sent two important letters today... will they still get to where I need them to go OK or will this strike affect their delivery?

[stez]

I sent two important letters today... will they still get to where I need them to go OK or will this strike affect their delivery?

they may be delayed (depending where you're sending them from and to) there's still a backlog of post items from the last localised strikes (grantham was effected). the latest vote was a vote to strike over the christmas period

[BoneDog]

I sent two important letters today... will they still get to where I need them to go OK or will this strike affect their delivery?

I think they'll get there. I bought some stuff off ebay on Sunday and it was here by Wednesday, and I don't think it was first class.

[Zingari]

The problem with that is the workers win, then people on the next rung kick up a fuss because they are now at the same level as the successful workers. And so it begins, until the original workers end up being no better off than they were in the first place.

yep, that's the world we live in , you have to keep running just to stand still

[Guest]

yep, that's the world we live in , you have to keep running just to stand still

Are you agreeing with me?

*THUD*

[davieG]

Source:- http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/busines...n-200910082119/

PAT AND JESS TRADE INSULTS OVER STRIKE ACTION

BRITAIN'S leading postman and his long-standing colleague last night exchanged vicious insults in an acrimonious split over proposed strike action.

'Arse-licking scab'

Pat Clifton, head of the Royal Mail's Special Delivery Service, has branded Jess, his black and white cat, a 'class traitor who would gladly stab his comrades in the back if he had thumbs'.

Clifton, who has threatened to bring the Cumbrian village of Greendale to a standstill, said: "He knows fook all about it anyway. I'm the one who's out there in all weathers delivering erection pills and Leona Lewis CDs while he sits in the van with his tongue stuck halfway up his crack."

But Jess insisted: "We have to accept that the Royal Mail needs to be leaner and more efficient in an era of ever increasing electronic communication. As much as I may enjoy the sensation, I have to admit that I really do not need my own sidecar."

He added: "And he can fooking talk. He works about two hours a day and spends the rest of the time on his Blackberry sending dirty emails to Mrs Goggins and trying to coax her into a three-way with Alf Thompson."

A Royal Mail spokesman said: "Jess understands the challenges facing the organisation while Pat uses up vast sums of money maintaining a completely unnecessary helicopter."

Meanwhile the Communication Workers Union has unveiled plans to picket the internet using hundreds of microscopic postmen.

A spokesman said: "We will shrink our members down to the size of an atom, much like Fantastic Voyage starring Raquel Welch, but without the figure-hugging outfits and the tiny submarine.

"They will then be placed inside telephone wires and fibre optic cables in a bid to stop billions of electrons going to work."

He added: "We hope to persuade the electrons to stand in solidarity with us, though that could be tricky as they do tend to travel at the speed of light. Any electrons that side with management will be branded as scabs.

"We'll also be shrinking lots of placards and banners, as well as dozens of tiny little braziers because the internet can get very chilly at this time of year."

[Zingari]

Are you agreeing with me?

*THUD*

If there's anyone else around to administer you with some smelling salts , you can get up off the ground now

I'm agreeing with you on the point that we are all indeed on a merry -go-round of wage demands ,

what i'm not sure about is whether you think that the posties ( or any other group of workers ) are any more responsible for it that anyone else .(as this seems to be what you are implying

Do you think that if any group of workers were to forfeit any rise on a one off basis , then everyone else would follow suit, and a new state of equilibrium would ensue ? This, I believe would not happen .

ps i really wasn't aware that we were so often in disagreement .

I agree with much of what you post ( so of course see no reason to comment ) and only ever add some minor disagreement at other times .

In other words I agree with you far more than I disagree

[Sir Fynwy]

If there's anyone else around to administer you with some smelling salts , you can get up off the ground now

I'm agreeing with you on the point that we are all indeed on a merry -go-round of wage demands ,

what i'm not sure about is whether you think that the posties ( or any other group of workers ) are any more responsible for it that anyone else .(as this seems to be what you are implying

Do you think that if any group of workers were to forfeit any rise on a one off basis , then everyone else would follow suit, and a new state of equilibrium would ensue ? This, I believe would not happen .

ps i really wasn't aware that we were so often in disagreement .

I agree with much of what you post ( so of course see no reason to comment ) and only ever add some minor disagreement at other times .

In other words I agree with you far more than I disagree

I took a 5% pay cut earlier this year, I didn't have to legally but it was for the good of the company I work for, I'm not unique in this. In bad times you have to make these sorts of decisions, it's a pity so many 'public servants' cannot understand this.

[Dr The Singh]

I took a 5% pay cut earlier this year, I didn't have to legally but it was for the good of the company I work for, I'm not unique in this. In bad times you have to make these sorts of decisions, it's a pity so many 'public servants' cannot understand this.

I haven't had a pay rise for 2 years, and my budget has been slashed by more then half......................and the cost of living always seems to go up..................there isn't anyway for me to complain or strike, I have 2 choices, like it and stay in a job or lump it and go somewhere else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Guest]

If there's anyone else around to administer you with some smelling salts , you can get up off the ground now

I'm agreeing with you on the point that we are all indeed on a merry -go-round of wage demands ,

what i'm not sure about is whether you think that the posties ( or any other group of workers ) are any more responsible for it that anyone else .(as this seems to be what you are implying

Do you think that if any group of workers were to forfeit any rise on a one off basis , then everyone else would follow suit, and a new state of equilibrium would ensue ? This, I believe would not happen .

ps i really wasn't aware that we were so often in disagreement .

I agree with much of what you post ( so of course see no reason to comment ) and only ever add some minor disagreement at other times .

In other words I agree with you far more than I disagree

You may as well ask what came first; the chicken or the egg. I can answer that one!

[Daggers]

I get a pay rise every year.

Postie steals at least one package from me a month.

Trav le Blue is a bloody nice bloke.

Like Natalie Imbruglia, I'm torn.

[Guest]

Posties angry.

I'm not surprised. It shows to me that they are not irreplaceable, and that there are people out there more than willing to step into the breach. The only thing I think is a pity is that the temporary workers can't do the work that the strikers would have done had they not thrown their toys out of the pram.

[Unit]

roughly on topic:

anybody know what you're meant to do when a package goes "missing"

It was a recorded delivery and i wasn't in so it went to the warehouse, i went to collect it and get "not here mate, sorry"