Postal dispute: how has it affected you?

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Regional stoppages have delayed mail across the UK for weeks. Now ballot results for a national strike are due. How will a strike affect you?

The long-running postal dispute is expected to escalate into a national strike ‑ how will this affect you? The row over job cuts, pay and reduced services has prompted months of regional stoppages. Action over the next few days includes 24-hour strikes in Peterborough, Bristol, Kilmarnock, Leeds, Nottingham and parts of London.

The Communication Workers Union is expected to announce tomorrow the results of a ballot of its members on plans for a national strike. The union's leadership is urging members to vote in favour of industrial action, arguing that a national strike would help secure job security.

Royal Mail says it is doing all it can to keep deliveries going and it is running regional updates on the state of its services.

But remote Scottish islands have been getting a better postal service than Londoners, according to a Guardian survey.

The strike is causing havoc to angry eBay sellers, judging by their online forum.

It's all playing into the hands of private delivery services. One of them, Parcels2Go, is broadcasting regular, news-style adverts about the strike in the hope of picking up trade. A website called Postalstrike is trying to break the strike with a list of private courier services by area.

But the postal workers have some public backing - almost 5,000 Facebook users have signed up to a group called I support the postal workers.

Do you? Or do you have more sympathy with Royal Mail? And whatever your views, how has the dispute affected you?

[not me]

The posties have jobs. Lucky them. My thoughts are all with their wretched customers.
The Government, who provide them with their monopoly, must think again about deregulation and permitting a real alternative to deliver ordinary mail. Alternatively, if the postal services and their employees retain their protected status then they must lose the "right" to disrupt the mail by taking industrial action. Hard working employees of thousands of businesses risk redundancy as their employers go to the wall.
What would really be good news would be to discover that Deutsche Post or TNT Post had been given the right to deliver ordinary mail. Royal Mail could then Eat my Shorts and go bust for all I care. Until then - my proposal would be to dispense with the services of any postman who chooses not to work - to encourage the others.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

The posties have jobs. Lucky them. My thoughts are all with their wretched customers.
The Government, who provide them with their monopoly, must think again about deregulation and permitting a real alternative to deliver ordinary mail. Alternatively, if the postal services and their employees retain their protected status then they must lose the "right" to disrupt the mail by taking industrial action. Hard working employees of thousands of businesses risk redundancy as their employers go to the wall.
What would really be good news would be to discover that Deutsche Post or TNT Post had been given the right to deliver ordinary mail. Royal Mail could then Eat my Shorts and go bust for all I care. Until then - my proposal would be to dispense with the services of any postman who chooses not to work - to encourage the others.

Royal Mail could then Eat my Shorts

[DGP1]

The posties have jobs. Lucky them. My thoughts are all with their wretched customers.
The Government, who provide them with their monopoly, must think again about deregulation and permitting a real alternative to deliver ordinary mail. Alternatively, if the postal services and their employees retain their protected status then they must lose the "right" to disrupt the mail by taking industrial action. Hard working employees of thousands of businesses risk redundancy as their employers go to the wall.
What would really be good news would be to discover that Deutsche Post or TNT Post had been given the right to deliver ordinary mail. Royal Mail could then Eat my Shorts and go bust for all I care. Until then - my proposal would be to dispense with the services of any postman who chooses not to work - to encourage the others.

Royal Mail could then Eat my Shorts

Cowabunga

[steven100]

"my proposal would be to dispense with the services of any postman who chooses not to work - to encourage the others."

I totally agree with this comment ......NOT. Do the public really believe bringing in untrained people to deliver mail to them with no knowledge of areas will be to the benefit of them. Their having a laugh. . Didn't this happen in the seventies. Less mail, walks shorter, WAS THAT A SUCCESS ........NO.

[banner18]

What would really be good news would be to discover that Deutsche Post or TNT Post had been given the right to deliver ordinary mail. Royal Mail could then Eat my Shorts and go bust for all I care. Until then - my proposal would be to dispense with the services of any postman who chooses not to work - to encourage the others.

haha, they can mate, I wonder why they don't?

[*The Lone Postie*]

Dang i must be delivering in a parallel universe,most of my customers get a great service where none of this crap from other parts of the country im hearing happen!!But yea i do have a few small firms that bitch at the later times,but they don't blame me as i've been their same Postie for 8 yrs now and they've seen it getting 2 hour+ later which i explain why this is.