DELIVERY OF ELECTION MATERIAL 2011

[POSTMAN]

DELIVERY OF ELECTION MATERIAL 2011

Should be read in conjunction with LTB 143/11 Election Material 2011 Poll Cards.
And note:
CWU Reps will need to be aware that the poll cards will have to be delivered in line with their product specification.

Similar advice has also been communicated to Royal Mail Regional Planning Managers and a copy of that advice is attached to this LTB for reference purposes.


1. In 2011 we have the following elections scheduled to take place on 5 May:

Scottish Parliament
Welsh Assembly
Northern Ireland Assembly
Council elections in 279 local authorities in England and 26 in Northern Ireland

Subject to Royal Assent to the bill currently in parliament, 5 May will also see a UK wide referendum on government proposals to adopt the alternative voting (AV) system.

Wales will also have on 3 March a referendum on the powers of the Welsh Assembly.

2. There will be election communication candidate material for the elections to the Scottish Parliament, the Wales and Northern Ireland Assemblies and also the Northern Ireland local authority elections (but no candidate material for the elections to the 279 English authorities).

Election communication candidate mail will again attract the normal unit payment rate for the office.

3. There will be no candidate mail for the AV referendum. It is likely we will make a Door To Door delivery of an information leaflet during week commencing 4 April. We might also have normal letters posted by the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ campaigns. These normal letters and the Door To Door mail don’t attract unit payment.

4 Each elector should receive only one poll card covering all the elections they are eligible for on 5 May.

We will make unit payment at the appropriate local rate for all poll cards delivered for the election in 2011.

5 There should be no extended delivery overtime for poll cards and election material candidate mail which are covered by unit payments.

6 The service standard for addressed election material candidate mail remains delivery within 3 working days from receipt in the office and 7 days for unaddressed.

The service standard for poll cards will depend upon which of our products (eg, Walksort; DSA or perhaps even STL) each returning officer chooses to use. The cards should be dealt with in line with the normal specification for each product stream.

[Broxi51]

Can anyone put LTB 143/11 on here please.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Can anyone put LTB 143/11 on here please.

No. 143/11
Ref: 535.09
Date: 14th February 2011

TO: All Branches with postal members
CWU Divisional Reps
CWU Area Delivery Reps


Dear Colleagues,

Election Material 2011 – Poll Cards

Following discussions with Royal Mail last week regarding the above we have now reached an agreed position that we hope will enable the successful delivery of election material and in particular Poll Cards. In simple terms all poll cards will be paid for at the rate per item applicable to the delivery unit, in line with the national agreement covering the delivery of election material. It is hoped that this will remove local disagreements/disputes which prevailed in some areas last year regarding which poll cards were covered by unit payment and which went into normal workload as all items are covered by the unit payment.

CWU Reps will need to be aware that the poll cards will have to be delivered in line with their product specification.

Similar advice has also been communicated to Royal Mail Regional Planning Managers and a copy of that advice is attached to this LTB for reference purposes.

Referendum material will need to be dealt with through local discussions to ensure suitable arrangements are in place to deal with the associated workload and any weight on delivery, replenishment and/or storage issues.

Any enquiries to Bob Gibson’s Office, quoting reference 535.09
Email address: hnutley@cwu.org

Yours sincerely

Bob Gibson
Assistant Secretary

[TrueBlueTerrier]

The attachment is the first post in this thread.

[POSTMAN]

Made it into a Global Announcement.

[MentalVortex]

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[mrlovepantsuk]

sorry but does this mean we should have been paid extra for the poll cards?

[POSTMAN]

In simple terms all poll cards will be paid for at the rate per item applicable to the delivery unit, in line with the national agreement covering the delivery of election material.

Yes,every election we get the same s**t,what is wrong with these reps ffs.