Does anyone regret the introduction of SDD

[pinstripe]

Does anyone apart from me, regret the SDD. Being an AG I used to start at 5.20 and finish at 9.45 with 30 minutes meal relief tacked on at the end. Yes it was 6 days a week, but I was home and finished by 10.00 unless I decided to do OT. Now I get home if I'm lucky, about 1.00pm and I'm too knackered to do anything. OT went out of the window shortly after the single delivery came in, and on my day off I'm totally done in. Oh and my early shift allowance was only protected for 3 years so thats gone now as well. I think the service has plummeted in the past 3 and a half years and all for the sake of £££s. Obviously some people and happy with it but I'm not. Finally what if everyones early shift allowance had only been protected for 3 years (not grandfather rights) would the new deal have been voted in?

[TrueBlueTerrier]

I came in as SDD was being implemented and even I can see SDD was just the first stepping stone to running down the service and eventual privatisation. Flexibility is a further step along with all the other things that have changed outside deliveries (Sunday Collections, PO Closures, Later Starts) and the next step when they have these LSMs in DOs and those electrical carts is 9 to 5 hours with Duties covering a geographical area. What I mean by this is that a postie will be assigned to an area and will have to do all deliveries and collections for their patch, this will free up more duties , meaning in real life more redundancies and personnel wastage, and IMO a degradation of the service.

This will lead naturally to franchising routes like they do in parts of Australia either by the Postie on that route, or by large multinational Postal companies like TNT cherry picking the best routes and single posties being left to pick up the dregs and try to make a living. This will mean in the end that if you are still working as a postie you will be paid for what you deliver, this will encourage more junk mail and more D2Ds as this will be the only way you can get a living wage.

The rest of the Network will be sold off in parts to the highest bidder, not the best provider. With larger and large distribution hubs, mail centres and sorting offices vying for each other business, so that it will not be unheard of for a letter going from Bristol to Hereford go via Glasgow because part of a DSA agreement between 2 companies means this is the most profitable way. Service will truly be a secondary consideration in a grab for profits. Does competition mean a better service, No, not the way Labour and Conservative party keep doing it all it means is bigger profits, more confusion, above inflation increases in prices and more subsidies paid for by the tax payer.

In other words, I will as I retire in 20+ years be looking on this period of my life with pride remembering our stand last year, the Burslems DOs Christmas sacrifice, but also if every thing comes to pass as this was the last year of the Golden Age of Royal Mail. I hope with all my being that we as a Union and with various Political Parties can, if not stop this train wreck called privatisation, we at least will try our best to slow it down and keep at least some part of the ethos of service in it somewhere.

Sorry to depress everyone but that is honestly how I see the future.

[madelin4]

I came in as SDD was being implemented and even I can see SDD was just the first stepping stone to running down the service and eventual privatisation. Flexibility is a further step along with all the other things that have changed outside deliveries (Sunday Collections, PO Closures, Later Starts) and the next step when they have these LSMs in DOs and those electrical carts is 9 to 5 hours with Duties covering a geographical area. What I mean by this is that a postie will be assigned to an area and will have to do all deliveries and collections for their patch, this will free up more duties , meaning in real life more redundancies and personnel wastage, and IMO a degradation of the service.

This will lead naturally to franchising routes like they do in parts of Australia either by the Postie on that route, or by large multinational Postal companies like TNT cherry picking the best routes and single posties being left to pick up the dregs and try to make a living. This will mean in the end that if you are still working as a postie you will be paid for what you deliver, this will encourage more junk mail and more D2Ds as this will be the only way you can get a living wage.

The rest of the Network will be sold off in parts to the highest bidder, not the best provider. With larger and large distribution hubs, mail centres and sorting offices vying for each other business, so that it will not be unheard of for a letter going from Bristol to Hereford go via Glasgow because part of a DSA agreement between 2 companies means this is the most profitable way. Service will truly be a secondary consideration in a grab for profits. Does competition mean a better service, No, not the way Labour and Conservative party keep doing it all it means is bigger profits, more confusion, above inflation increases in prices and more subsidies paid for by the tax payer.

In other words, I will as I retire in 20+ years be looking on this period of my life with pride remembering our stand last year, the Burslems DOs Christmas sacrifice, but also if every thing comes to pass as this was the last year of the Golden Age of Royal Mail. I hope with all my being that we as a Union and with various Political Parties can, if not stop this train wreck called privatisation, we at least will try our best to slow it down and keep at least some part of the ethos of service in it somewhere.

Sorry to depress everyone but that is honestly how I see the future.

[greynut]

I find it difficult now to comment of things like SDD. All that work and negotiation for what. For it to be totally changed and disgarded in 3 years.

I can honestly say that I have never seen such a mercenary crew as RM's senior management.

How they cut jobs, overtime and line their pockets at the same time is beyond me.

Its a sad sign of the times.

[BELIAL]

Yes it's just not the same with a condom

[jafferpants]

Yes it's just not the same with a condom

Whats a block of flats got to do with anything.

[DGP1]

Yes it's just not the same with a condom

You may well blush