Dear Rico (An Open Letter)

norris9 · Post by **norris9** » 17 Nov 2019, 21:08

Put this in the Royal Mail magazine, whatever it's called. I am sure Rico must read that as he's the RM boss. I am sure he keeps up with what the workforce have been up to and how happy we all are.

Seems I will be having no break this Xmas other than the bank holidays..... here comes 10 mile a day walks with overloaded bags and barely any rest. Why can't I have been born with a higher IQ.

sirchewey · Post by **sirchewey** » 17 Nov 2019, 22:38

Great letter, you held back well. I thought about doing the same, but you've saved me the bother lol tbh would pretty much be a copy and paste exercise with what you wrote.
Instead I have ordered some CWU merch to wear at work

Gotta support our union and show the company regardless of what has happened in recent days that we will not be broken and stand stronger now than ever before.
Go ask your rep for some stuff, and get your wallet out or go to website https://www.cwu-shop.org/products/stock-products

Post by **nelly21** » 18 Nov 2019, 00:19

Crimson king

Great post mate , I think you have spoken for the vast majority of posties

work · Post by **work** » 18 Nov 2019, 16:11

Such clarity from the peasant(s)

Hoping your You and your family are well at this time of year

Have a wonderful time (off) when you get it... and nice one!

Long Live the (Crimson) King : coolr

lee trigger · Post by **lee trigger** » 18 Nov 2019, 18:37

excellent letter. all we need to do is remove the good will through December to show our disgust with the way we are being treated and the job will be knackered.

Post by **greengiant** » 18 Nov 2019, 21:11

norris9 wrote:Put this in the Royal Mail magazine, whatever it's called. I am sure Rico must read that as he's the RM boss. I am sure he keeps up with what the workforce have been up to and how happy we all are.

Seems I will be having no break this Xmas other than the bank holidays..... here comes 10 mile a day walks with overloaded bags and barely any rest. Why can't I have been born with a higher IQ.

Overloaded bags? You are aware of the light weight trollys we can use?

Also it is not mandatory to work you rest days.

Post by **POSTMAN** » 18 Nov 2019, 22:57

Off topic stuff deleted.
Good post Crimson!, so much so it was nicked to Facebook without any credit to you or where it come from, I complained.......and they deleted it, save giving you the credit

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 19 Nov 2019, 17:54

This will likely be the last busy Christmas that most delivery offices have as the 'new parcel strategy' , and maybe the five day operation as well, will be in effect by Xmas 2020.

Gasman11 · Post by **Gasman11** » 19 Nov 2019, 18:54

Celgar wrote:This will likely be the last busy Christmas that most delivery offices have as the 'new parcel strategy' , and maybe the five day operation as well, will be in effect by Xmas 2020.

Thanks for that cheery news Rico, this fight isn't over yet though

leolion855 · Post by **leolion855** » 19 Nov 2019, 19:44

Celgar wrote:This will likely be the last busy Christmas that most delivery offices have as the 'new parcel strategy' , and maybe the five day operation as well, will be in effect by Xmas 2020.

source?

westham000 · Post by **westham000** » 19 Nov 2019, 19:57

Fantastic letter, couldn't have worded it better. And more importantly it sums up my feelings as well as my fellow colleagues. Thank you for writing it.

As for Rico, unfortunately if he reads it, I don't think he will give one iota. He doesn't give a dam about us and has one objective, and one objective only. To break us and our Union. And at this moment, he is succeeding. The main objective is to compete with our competitors on the same terms and conditions. Starting with a two tier workforce, until as the spice girls say 2 becomes 1. No two tier workforce we are all on either zero hours contracts or self employed with a interest free loan from the business to encourage us.

As I write this letter, SDO’s and mail centers are being flooded with temps from I believe angard or whatever they are called on the pretense of xmas. They are preparing for cut offs and potential work to rule. IE posties doing their job properly starting on time, taking their meal break and not rushing around like lunatics like they have been doing for the last 10.5 months. Unfortunately some still doing it.

I for one wouldn't be surprised if these temps as part of Rico’s strategy are still here next year. Cost him a lot of money no doubt but think of the money he will save when he destroys our hard fought for terms and conditions.

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 30 Nov 2019, 02:11

The very least we can all do is send the propaganda back to Back the Courier and all the crap they send if they go to the landed gentry we walk the streets and the propaganda don't propagate when we hit the streets!