Preston - Postmen walk out at mail office

[bobbyden]

You are absolutely right DGP1. Management, not all it has to be said, cannot hold their hands up and be honest with themselves and colleagues alike. All in all, a very poor state of affairs and something which has been an unwelcome feature in the Royal Mail. It is a situation that needs to ends for good. I have said it before and I will say it again and again and again....This company is in serious difficulties and people need to get real and pretty damn quickly. If ever there was a time for management and staff to work together for the overall good of the Royal Mail, it is now. The number of chances the Royal Mail has left are diminishing and there will come a time when it is too late to do anything positive and worthwhile. Let us all ensure such a moment never arrives. The Royal Mail is blessed with talented, committed individuals, a credit not only to themselves but to the country of Great Britain as a whole. Moya Greene and her likes have failed and failed miserably. With deepest regret, we all now painfully realise that Ms Greene is only here at the Royal Mail for what she can get out of the place. Her total ineffectiveness has seen the company regress sharply over the past two years. I do not blame her for everything though. Previous occupants must shoulder their share of the blame also. Leaving that aside, the sooner the Royal Mail appoints somebody with leadership and policy skills the better. Even more so, an appointment which includes keeping the Royal Mail as a public service and nothing else. We have no chance whatsoever in the Private Sector. The company finances are too weak and Moya would slash costs to the bone, (only getting her eye in at the moment) leaving the Royal Mail virtually a distant memory.

On the plus side DGP1, the manager in question is badly damaged by all of this and basically is a lame duck (Quack, Quack). The inconvenience the said manager caused to the general public in Preston, Lancashire, will hopefully act as a learning curve. Maybe, just maybe, this person will become a better manager in the light of what happened. Unfortunately, too many acting managers never learn from their mistakes. I hope this will be an exception.

As for the staff, please do not ballot for future industrial action. You end up losing money and credibility with the general public. Times change and strike action has become a blunt weapon. I greatly admire your principle towards a friend and colleague who was badly treated. It is better to fight your corner from inside though, rather than on the outside looking in. Adopt a work to rule policy by all means and set the agenda, instead of the bosses calling the shots. You are more than capable of teaching our so called superiors a lesson they will not forget in a hurry. All of you want a better, more harmonious delivery office than the one you have now. I share that wish, but it is up to you to get it. I very much hope you succeed because the Royal Mail succeeds also. Preston Delivery Office, a benchmark for the whole Royal Mail estate. Sounds good to me!!! Only problem is, Moya is running the estate into the ground with her crazy politics of self, self and more self. Deal with her at the same time and get rid of her. She is a complete waste of space and a total waste of time. You ladies and gents at Preston Delivery Office, get somebody in who knows what they are doing. Better still, Preston Delivery Office takes over and in a few years time, the lot of us will be living in clover, after we have settled a few scores with TNT, UK Mail, DHL and the rest of that shower who have been living off our backs. Set to it.