Mr.S.Marbo
New member
I don\'t think they are fighting for more pay.
They are fighting to prevent delivery office closures, staff cuts, unreasonable expectations from management, and extra hours work for no extra pay at all (in other words a pay cut).
\"Modernisation\" is just another word for cuts and increasing profit. Don\'t think this modernisation is for the customer, it\'s to increase profits. There comes a point in any organisation that when you cut too many staff you can\'t deliver the service. Modernisation so far has given me less reliable deliveries (I used to have post before 8am every day, now it can arrive any time from the morning to late afternoon), and it is now harder to pick up my mail (the sorting office is now closed most of the day and I can\'t pick up parcels there any more, as they are rarely open and when they are I am always in work - it didn\'t used to be like that).
People make the mistake to assume that what is good for the corporation is good for the consumer. A corporation doesn\'t care if you are satisfied or not (as long as that doesn\'t dent their profits), it is there to make a profit, that\'s all.
I am amazed at all these bad stories about the Royal Mail too. If I am not at home, my local post people will often try and deliver a parcel to me at work (they are not required to do this, but they often do). I have never ever had a piece of post go missing, never had one been damaged and Royal Mail is by a clear mile the cheapest way of sending small items at least where I live.
My telephone provider, my gas and electricity provider, every single train company in the UK, my bank, other banks, my previous ISP, my insurance company, my last insurance company all have a few things in common. They are all private and they all have offered extremely poor service. Royal Mail is still quite good, but used to be great before all this \"modernisation\" (a nice euphemism for \'see how much we can save by reducing the service provided but still charging the same or even charging more\').
So yeah, I don\'t want them to strike because I have stuff I want to send and receive, but I do support some of their aims. I don\'t want them to end up inept like the vast majority of private companies I deal with, and they have been heading that way.
They are fighting to prevent delivery office closures, staff cuts, unreasonable expectations from management, and extra hours work for no extra pay at all (in other words a pay cut).
\"Modernisation\" is just another word for cuts and increasing profit. Don\'t think this modernisation is for the customer, it\'s to increase profits. There comes a point in any organisation that when you cut too many staff you can\'t deliver the service. Modernisation so far has given me less reliable deliveries (I used to have post before 8am every day, now it can arrive any time from the morning to late afternoon), and it is now harder to pick up my mail (the sorting office is now closed most of the day and I can\'t pick up parcels there any more, as they are rarely open and when they are I am always in work - it didn\'t used to be like that).
People make the mistake to assume that what is good for the corporation is good for the consumer. A corporation doesn\'t care if you are satisfied or not (as long as that doesn\'t dent their profits), it is there to make a profit, that\'s all.
I am amazed at all these bad stories about the Royal Mail too. If I am not at home, my local post people will often try and deliver a parcel to me at work (they are not required to do this, but they often do). I have never ever had a piece of post go missing, never had one been damaged and Royal Mail is by a clear mile the cheapest way of sending small items at least where I live.
My telephone provider, my gas and electricity provider, every single train company in the UK, my bank, other banks, my previous ISP, my insurance company, my last insurance company all have a few things in common. They are all private and they all have offered extremely poor service. Royal Mail is still quite good, but used to be great before all this \"modernisation\" (a nice euphemism for \'see how much we can save by reducing the service provided but still charging the same or even charging more\').
So yeah, I don\'t want them to strike because I have stuff I want to send and receive, but I do support some of their aims. I don\'t want them to end up inept like the vast majority of private companies I deal with, and they have been heading that way.
