Is this what they really think of us (reply to link on post)

[emonrehab]

JUST BACK FROM HOLS IN SPAIN THIS WAS TAKEN FROM A LOCAL PAPER IF YOU WANT TO REPLY SEND TO

office@coastalrider.net

THE UMP by Micheal McInally


This week’s target is the UK postal service, and the postmen, and women, it employs. Before any retired postman, who was dedicated and actually did a decent day’s work, gets too angry and decides to write in and tell me I know nothing about the Post Office and Royal Mail, I had better warn you; firstly, I know bad service when I see it and outdated work practices when I see them, and secondly, my father worked for the Post Office all his adult life, and by the time he took early retirement from Royal Mail, he held a senior management post in London.
Moreover, as a child, when my father was Postmaster at Buckie, I walked each day after school through the sorting office to reach our flat situated above. I can still smell the machinery and the sweat, and I recall everyone moving around in what appeared to be slow motion. Write in? I don’t think any postie will, because firstly, while there are exceptions, postal staff could be stamped as the laziest bunch of slow moving, can’t do it, won’t do it, bolt through the neck, unionised troglodytes ever to grace the surface of the planet, and secondly, a postman would have to check with his union leader before he even farted, never mind use energy to write a letter; unless of course, he was paid double time to do it and managed to slip off home before lunch time to post it. Almost every industry has gone through a revolutionary change to drag its outdated practices into the twenty first century, but not the Post Office; it remains a dinosaur. Miners and their unions were crushed underfoot by Maggie and her bovver booted police force, Eddie Shah showed every newspaper proprietor in the land how to stuff it up the print unions, modern practices, robots and machinery eventually broke the stranglehold of the unions in the motor manufacturing industry, but for some mysterious reason, the ‘Post Office,’ or Royal Mail, has managed to cling on to its antiquated practices and unionised behaviour which would be more suited to a Midlands BMC car plant in the sixties, under the control of joint shop stewards Will Strike and Al Out. Dave Ward, from the Communication Workers Union, a contradiction in terms if ever there was one, accused Royal Mail management of ‘slavery,’ because of the way it treated its employees. He added, “What Royal Mail has got at the moment is a dedicated, hard-working and flexible workforce.â€

[nelson]

The man is a idiot.

[axeman]

You can bet he's read all the managers briefs when returning from his 'hols'. Victorian values from a management lackie
one of al & ad's favourites i'd dare say. Bet he e-mailed it to them for consent prior to sending it to the press ......or was it a press release from 150 old street.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

He does rather give away his right-wing view of this praising Mad Maggie and Eddie Shah

[Junior]

This "finishing early" business is getting on my nerves now... I've been on walks and rural deliveries and I've worked indoors (the old PHG grade) and the easiest job by far is the PHG job. Why? Because it's basically a lower form of management and anyone who has worked for Royal Mail knows that it's the easiest job of all.

Unfortunately, we live in a country where pushing pens and filing papers is considered a tougher job than carrying 16kg sacks for 5 hours a day. We don't standa chance of convincing anyone otherwise, because that's what most of the country do.

[IWW Fellow Worker]

Another idiot who misses the days when Thatcher and her allies could ride roughshod over the workers. No mention of her destroying manufacturing industry, but he probably thinks things like ships, busses, trucks, cars and railway engines are outmoded.

[Stormproof]

This "finishing early" business is getting on my nerves now... I've been on walks and rural deliveries and I've worked indoors (the old PHG grade) and the easiest job by far is the PHG job. Why? Because it's basically a lower form of management and anyone who has worked for Royal Mail knows that it's the easiest job of all.

Unfortunately, we live in a country where pushing pens and filing papers is considered a tougher job than carrying 16kg sacks for 5 hours a day. We don't standa chance of convincing anyone otherwise, because that's what most of the country do.

I take offence to your comment, I do an ex phg duty and I'll tell you It ain't easy!, I take all the crap off the public, I often have to work past my time so not to leave loads of s**t for my colleague to deal with (I don't book overtime, it ain't worth the grief), what p's me off is when I have at least another 2 hours of my duty to do and posties are done and finished and on the way home. No way do I class myself as a lower form of management I'd love to have the time to sit around and drink coffee.

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[quote="emonrehab"]JUST BACK FROM HOLS IN SPAIN THIS WAS TAKEN FROM A LOCAL PAPER IF YOU WANT TO REPLY SEND TO

office@coastalrider.net

THE UMP by Micheal McInally


This week’s target is the UK postal service, and the postmen, and women, it employs. Before any retired postman, who was dedicated and actually did a decent day’s work, gets too angry and decides to write in and tell me I know nothing about the Post Office and Royal Mail, I had better warn you; firstly, I know bad service when I see it and outdated work practices when I see them, and secondly, my father worked for the Post Office all his adult life, and by the time he took early retirement from Royal Mail, he held a senior management post in London.
Moreover, as a child, when my father was Postmaster at Buckie, I walked each day after school through the sorting office to reach our flat situated above. I can still smell the machinery and the sweat, and I recall everyone moving around in what appeared to be slow motion. Write in? I don’t think any postie will, because firstly, while there are exceptions, postal staff could be stamped as the laziest bunch of slow moving, can’t do it, won’t do it, bolt through the neck, unionised troglodytes ever to grace the surface of the planet, and secondly, a postman would have to check with his union leader before he even farted, never mind use energy to write a letter; unless of course, he was paid double time to do it and managed to slip off home before lunch time to post it. Almost every industry has gone through a revolutionary change to drag its outdated practices into the twenty first century, but not the Post Office; it remains a dinosaur. Miners and their unions were crushed underfoot by Maggie and her bovver booted police force, Eddie Shah showed every newspaper proprietor in the land how to stuff it up the print unions, modern practices, robots and machinery eventually broke the stranglehold of the unions in the motor manufacturing industry, but for some mysterious reason, the ‘Post Office,’ or Royal Mail, has managed to cling on to its antiquated practices and unionised behaviour which would be more suited to a Midlands BMC car plant in the sixties, under the control of joint shop stewards Will Strike and Al Out. Dave Ward, from the Communication Workers Union, a contradiction in terms if ever there was one, accused Royal Mail management of ‘slavery,’ because of the way it treated its employees. He added, “What Royal Mail has got at the moment is a dedicated, hard-working and flexible workforce.â€

[Junior]

This "finishing early" business is getting on my nerves now... I've been on walks and rural deliveries and I've worked indoors (the old PHG grade) and the easiest job by far is the PHG job. Why? Because it's basically a lower form of management and anyone who has worked for Royal Mail knows that it's the easiest job of all.

Unfortunately, we live in a country where pushing pens and filing papers is considered a tougher job than carrying 16kg sacks for 5 hours a day. We don't standa chance of convincing anyone otherwise, because that's what most of the country do.

I take offence to your comment, I do an ex phg duty and I'll tell you It ain't easy!, I take all the crap off the public, I often have to work past my time so not to leave loads of s**t for my colleague to deal with (I don't book overtime, it ain't worth the grief), what p's me off is when I have at least another 2 hours of my duty to do and posties are done and finished and on the way home. No way do I class myself as a lower form of management I'd love to have the time to sit around and drink coffee.

Lol, I know where you're coming from with the public - just yesterday someone decided to make a complaint because I decided to close the caller's office on time Well actually, I closed the office 5 minutes late, but whatever... Our office isn't so bad for people finishing 2 hours early and me still having to work these days - all our deliveries are too big to finish that early! As for having to work past your time... Well, that's a personal choice which I personally won't do (although, I might do if the other guy who does the PHG duty didn't leave all his work for me already). Also, I phrased the "lower class of management" thing wrongly... It's more of a "designed by lower management" job. The posties who do the job do work hard (apart from one or two...) but I still believe it's easier than being out on delivery. Aside from a Saturday, where I have to wait until the last postie gets back before I can have my only "job and finish" of the week (which I don't really get because the last person usually arrives about 10 minutes before the end of my duty anyway), I'd choose the indoor job over a delivery every time.

But I guess everyone has different preferences. Personally, as boring as it is, I'd choose deading letters and writing out charges over delivering in the wind and rain. The indoor guys don't get it easy, but it is definitely easier than the deliveries, IMO.

[emonrehab]

[quote="Post Off"][quote="emonrehab"]JUST BACK FROM HOLS IN SPAIN THIS WAS TAKEN FROM A LOCAL PAPER IF YOU WANT TO REPLY SEND TO

office@coastalrider.net

THE UMP by Micheal McInally


This week’s target is the UK postal service, and the postmen, and women, it employs. Before any retired postman, who was dedicated and actually did a decent day’s work, gets too angry and decides to write in and tell me I know nothing about the Post Office and Royal Mail, I had better warn you; firstly, I know bad service when I see it and outdated work practices when I see them, and secondly, my father worked for the Post Office all his adult life, and by the time he took early retirement from Royal Mail, he held a senior management post in London.
Moreover, as a child, when my father was Postmaster at Buckie, I walked each day after school through the sorting office to reach our flat situated above. I can still smell the machinery and the sweat, and I recall everyone moving around in what appeared to be slow motion. Write in? I don’t think any postie will, because firstly, while there are exceptions, postal staff could be stamped as the laziest bunch of slow moving, can’t do it, won’t do it, bolt through the neck, unionised troglodytes ever to grace the surface of the planet, and secondly, a postman would have to check with his union leader before he even farted, never mind use energy to write a letter; unless of course, he was paid double time to do it and managed to slip off home before lunch time to post it. Almost every industry has gone through a revolutionary change to drag its outdated practices into the twenty first century, but not the Post Office; it remains a dinosaur. Miners and their unions were crushed underfoot by Maggie and her bovver booted police force, Eddie Shah showed every newspaper proprietor in the land how to stuff it up the print unions, modern practices, robots and machinery eventually broke the stranglehold of the unions in the motor manufacturing industry, but for some mysterious reason, the ‘Post Office,’ or Royal Mail, has managed to cling on to its antiquated practices and unionised behaviour which would be more suited to a Midlands BMC car plant in the sixties, under the control of joint shop stewards Will Strike and Al Out. Dave Ward, from the Communication Workers Union, a contradiction in terms if ever there was one, accused Royal Mail management of ‘slavery,’ because of the way it treated its employees. He added, “What Royal Mail has got at the moment is a dedicated, hard-working and flexible workforce.â€

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This is not an e- mail it is a genuine story from a newspaper I have already replied to the link given i am not here to wind anyone up just quoting from an article which annoyed me

www.coastrider.net/views.htm#theump

My apologies to you if this is so, as sometimes it is all too obvious from some posters who simply register to either promote some get rich scheme or have nothing but little regard for us posties.

I won't mention names, but there was a poster who after two or three posts stated how badly we posties had been treated, or words to that effect, and then in the same post, which has been since deleted gave a direct link to their crummy and unprofessional made website.

Incidentally, I am unable to access that link you gave me.

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Err, I've since been able to access this website now. Looks like you were on the level. Sorry about my initial response, but I get awfully suspicious when people post very little of themselves and much about others when they have made one or three posts.