Royal Mail to Strike?

[dronefromsector7G]

Theyr'e all frontline at the moment mate - NHS, posties, shop workers, warehouse workers, and even the underage rentboys going round @dronefromsector7G 's house to do £5 handjobs.

Stop making stuff up. They’re all over 16.

 

[Phil1]

Stop making stuff up. They’re all over £5

 

[allblackcitizen]

I shall raise a glass to our posties tomorrow


Also talk about takin advantage of this pandemic! With RM management announcing suspending saturday deliveries and don't be fooled that this is temporary
This is something that Royal Mail actually want to bring in permanently which results in the loss of 20000 jobs, & that's factual.
They want to deliver Mon to Fri. Saves money one of many reasons for the dispute.

They've only suspended letter delivery on a Saturday, not parcels. We all have to go in tomorrow, but god knows what they'll have us doing?

RM management want to go to a 5 day letter delivery model, but actually want to ditch a tuesday delivery not saturday. However, the lockdown/pandemic has enabled them to trial the 5 day letter delivery which they will try to switch once things normalise. This has been done with no consultation, and under the guise of health and safety, employee protection and company preservation. However, RM is one of the companies actually doing ok out of the virus. Parcel numbers are at Christmas levels.

However, it is clear that RM management, especially that fat fuck CEO Rico Back, are determined to use the virus crisis to push through their agenda. It will lead to job losses. It will lead to the loss of the universal 6 day a week service. The CEO hates letters. It's clear he sees them as a drag on the business. He wants RM to be a parcel delivery service and if he can get rid of the t's and c's that posties have fought so hard for, he'll do that too.

 

[117 M34]

I had a brainwave today about the royal mail.
I had to post something so had to leave my house and go a mile down the road to the postbox to post it.
This was a few minutes after a royal mail employee (postman) was at my door dropping off letters.
There should be a service where they drop off and collect letters at the same time.
That would save time, remove the need for postboxes and save them having staff driving around the postboxes to collect the letters.

 

[blueparrot]

I had a brainwave today about the royal mail.
I had to post something so had to leave my house and go a mile down the road to the postbox to post it.
This was a few minutes after a royal mail employee (postman) was at my door dropping off letters.
There should be a service where they drop off and collect letters at the same time.
That would save time, remove the need for postboxes and save them having staff driving around the postboxes to collect the letters.

Trying to remember the last time I had to post anything, but can’t remember when I had anything to post other than a small parcel, so had to go and get it weighed and buy a stamp.Few cards at Christmas but had to buy stamps for them,before posting.
Do people that post letters keep stamps in the house? Suppose that might work.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

I had a brainwave today about the royal mail.
I had to post something so had to leave my house and go a mile down the road to the postbox to post it.
This was a few minutes after a royal mail employee (postman) was at my door dropping off letters.
There should be a service where they drop off and collect letters at the same time.
That would save time, remove the need for postboxes and save them having staff driving around the postboxes to collect the letters.

The US postal service does that.

I'm not sure it would actually be more efficient because it's reliant on you having incoming post on the same day you want it picked up.

Or you have postal workers checking every house just in case.

 

[Postman Pep]

I had a brainwave today about the royal mail.
I had to post something so had to leave my house and go a mile down the road to the postbox to post it.
This was a few minutes after a royal mail employee (postman) was at my door dropping off letters.
There should be a service where they drop off and collect letters at the same time.
That would save time, remove the need for postboxes and save them having staff driving around the postboxes to collect the letters.

Most post boxes are emptied by posties on delivery I'm sure if you asked they would have taken it off you. Not sure knocking on every door on the off chance would pass the auditors efficiency tests tbh.

 

[bluethrunthru]

I had a brainwave today about the royal mail.
I had to post something so had to leave my house and go a mile down the road to the postbox to post it.
This was a few minutes after a royal mail employee (postman) was at my door dropping off letters.
There should be a service where they drop off and collect letters at the same time.
That would save time, remove the need for postboxes and save them having staff driving around the postboxes to collect the letters.

The problem I see there is there will always some **** abusing it. Extreme example - postie drops off a leaflet about say pre-paid funerals and expect a postie to take the microwave oven he has wrapped up so it can be posted to his mum.....

 

[Vic]

The problem I see there is there will always some **** abusing it. Extreme example - postie drops off a leaflet about say pre-paid funerals and expect a postie to take the microwave oven he has wrapped up so it can be posted to his mum.....

Sorry, I don't see the link. Is she supposed to drop the microwave in her bath?