Bring back the whistling postman....

[TrueBlueTerrier]

http://tonbridgeblog.blogspot.com/2009/ ... stman.html

I'm not sure how I feel about the postal workers strike. On the one hand I like receiving my post every day, especially for business reasons. On the other hand however, I can't help sympathising with postmen and sorting office workers who do a pretty good job on the whole getting our mail to us from all corners of the world. The work can't be the most fulfilling and it's certainly not well paid. I'm afraid that the latest "efficiency drive" by those charlatans in charge at the Royal Mail is just a thinly described way of saying "job cuts." They are trying to manage the situation and the public perception in order to save money. What does this mean for them? Adam Crozier, and Alan Leighton The Chief Executive and the Chairman of Royal Mail get to line their, already over laiden, pockets with yet more cost saving target bonuses and share options. Thanks very much! What do we get? We get less deliveries, industrial action leading to turmoil, post office closures (including the threatened closure of Goldsmid Road and Shipbourne Road) and a grumpy postman, instead of a whistling one. What does the post office worker get? More and more frustrated and stressed out coupled with less and less job security. This means that they will work less efficiently not more efficiently Mr. Crozier. When the postman stops whistling, he starts dragging his heels and taking longer to deliver that mail, he starts making mistakes and he starts taking more sikkies because that's one way he can get back at you. But frankly what do you care because when the s**t hits the fan in a few years time and we realise that we shouldn't have closed that post office down after all and that people won't apply for jobs at the sorting office any more, because the pay and conditions are so crap, you'll be long gone and off to sack a few thousand more people in your next high powered post to receive another few million on top of the £2m bonus you received last year....

[dvbuk55]

And of course the accolade of the business world for being a "visionary" who tells it like it is - well in his world anyway.

[pinstripe]

By the time I'm half way round my delivery I'm not whistling, I'm wheezing.
Good article though, like many that have appeared in the last few weeks, but I doubt that it will have any effect on RM. The only thing that will happen, is in a few years time all the journalists will be able to say, "Well at least we tried"

[stokes11eg]

By the time I'm half way round my delivery I'm not whistling, I'm wheezing.
Good article though, like many that have appeared in the last few weeks, but I doubt that it will have any effect on RM. The only thing that will happen, is in a few years time all the journalists will be able to say, "Well at least we tried"

True about the wheezing!!!!!! I think everyone who thinks we have an easy job should try it for at least six months
in the winter----However, I do feel if 'our ' customers truly get behind us, it may just have some effect.
One for the Unions perhaps? A sort of door to door petition for our customers. Most I speak to are firmly behind us.,and would voice support given the chance.

[NWpostie]

There a door to door petition form the last time Micheal Heseltine " The president of the board of trade" as he so like to style himself, wanted to privatise the Royal mail, I still have a few surplus knocking about in my house, which I saved for posterity.

I remember delivering to my Sub Office at the time, he refused to fill it in, was not interested, 2 years ago his Sub Office was closed down, there was nobody to defend him.

which reminded me of the German Pastor in Nazi germany,

"First They Came for the Jews"
By Pastor Niemoller

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

we all have to defend the service all the different segments of the Postal Service as we are all at risk from this attack on our pay, conditions, jobs etc