CWU Update on Of Com Report

[Martin Walsh]

General Secretary Dave Ward will be on Sky News this morning at 0745 discussing the leaked reports on OFCOMs review of the USO proposals.

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CWU STATEMENT ON PRESS REPORTS

The early leaking of the details of the OFCOM report on the future of the Universal Service Obligation (USO) to the media sums up the lack of professionalism, integrity and credibility they have as a regulator.

This report, like their previous investigation on quality of service, has been produced without the input of a single postal worker or the CWU. OFCOM have abandoned their responsibilities on quality of service and are now attempting to do the same on the USO.

Debating the future of the postal service in the absence of those who work for it and deliver it everyday is completely inappropriate and should tell everybody what OFCOM’s real priorities and motives are.

It is therefore no surprise to see OFCOM potentially recommending letter deliveries every other day which is a serious down-dialling of the USO to a level which would threaten tens of thousands of jobs. This is the regulator openly pursuing the failed agenda of the former Royal Mail Group senior leadership - all of whom have now left the company.

The CWU and our members are not blind to the need for change. But we want changed based on the needs of customers, the security of our members jobs and driven by an ambitious growth strategy that sees the infrastructure, fleet and presence in every community as Royal Mail’s key assets.

The CWU will work with economists to produce an alternative and independent view on the future of postal services in the UK and embark on a major engagement exercise with our members, businesses and the public.

This is a huge test of the new leadership of Royal Mail. There has been some positive recent signs but they must now decide whether to back a completely failed vision which will destroy the company or change direction and join the CWU in expanding the role of postal workers and in turn expanding services, job security and profit

Dave Ward
General Secretary

Martin Walsh
Deputy General Secretary Postal

[chickenwittle]

Wow , even worse than most thought, they want to go way beyond dropping the Saturday it seems , worrying times ahead it seems.

[guardianangel]

Dave Ward the hypocrite this bloke has enabled all of what's going on,the bloke is a 2 faced toerag.

[SpacePhoenix]

Wow , even worse than most thought, they want to go way beyond dropping the Saturday it seems , worrying times ahead it seems.

If letters are already only going out every other day for many walks in many DOs then does it really make any difference apart from making it official policy?

[chickenwittle]

Wow , even worse than most thought, they want to go way beyond dropping the Saturday it seems , worrying times ahead it seems.

If letters are already only going out every other day for many walks in many DOs then does it really make any difference apart from making it official policy?

It obviously will because they’ll staff it accordingly and not every office is working the way you described it , I know plenty in my area that are delivering as normal.

[Nickvilla20]

Wow , even worse than most thought, they want to go way beyond dropping the Saturday it seems , worrying times ahead it seems.

If letters are already only going out every other day for many walks in many DOs then does it really make any difference apart from making it official policy?

My office clears everyday. If an office is well run it will clear having letters every other day puts huge strain of delivery staff as it make the walks much longer and heavier and having heavy days every single day will be bad for peoples health.

Most round can’t cope with 2 trays of mech now never mind the inevitable 3 or 4 if deliveries are every other day. If this comes in them I’m out and many will follow.

[Nickvilla20]

Wow , even worse than most thought, they want to go way beyond dropping the Saturday it seems , worrying times ahead it seems.

If letters are already only going out every other day for many walks in many DOs then does it really make any difference apart from making it official policy?

It obviously will because they’ll staff it accordingly and not every office is working the way you described it , I know plenty in my area that are delivering as normal.

You will need probably 60% of the staff you have now if you went to every other day and every day you would have at least a 75% call rate on every delivery plus the non tracked parcels which will be inevitably left. It was be like Xmas levels every single day.

[hans solo]

Dave ward oh dear
It was your lack of fight that has led to this
What is now coming to fruition is what your agreement was meant to stop
Clown

[SpacePhoenix]

Wow , even worse than most thought, they want to go way beyond dropping the Saturday it seems , worrying times ahead it seems.

If letters are already only going out every other day for many walks in many DOs then does it really make any difference apart from making it official policy?

My office clears everyday. If an office is well run it will clear having letters every other day puts huge strain of delivery staff as it make the walks much longer and heavier and having heavy days every single day will be bad for peoples health.

Most round can’t cope with 2 trays of mech now never mind the inevitable 3 or 4 if deliveries are every other day. If this comes in them I’m out and many will follow.

2 trays of mech per walk? Apart from a handful all walks locally get at most a box and a half on a normal day

[Valentina@1]

Dave Ward the hypocrite this bloke has enabled all of what's going on,the bloke is a 2 faced toerag.

[Nickvilla20]

Wow , even worse than most thought, they want to go way beyond dropping the Saturday it seems , worrying times ahead it seems.

If letters are already only going out every other day for many walks in many DOs then does it really make any difference apart from making it official policy?

My office clears everyday. If an office is well run it will clear having letters every other day puts huge strain of delivery staff as it make the walks much longer and heavier and having heavy days every single day will be bad for peoples health.

Most round can’t cope with 2 trays of mech now never mind the inevitable 3 or 4 if deliveries are every other day. If this comes in them I’m out and many will follow.

2 trays of mech per walk? Apart from a handful all walks locally get at most a box and a half on a normal day

It doesn’t take much these day to overload a walk. Most walks are running at 4-5 hours on normals days add an extra day or 2 of letters and that makes it well over 6 hours. You surely can’t expect delivery posties to be doing 6 hour walks everyday.

[1560loopsayear]

Have no fear fellow posties, if you vote Tory at next General election we'll keep the 6 day USO BBC News - Royal Mail's Saturday post should stay, government says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68058408

[ted_e_bear]

What's this scaremongering about 3 days per week, I thought the recommendation was going to be to drop Saturday.

[tramssirhc]

whats the CWU going to do about it? ballot for strike action to defend the USO?

[SMS1969]

What's this scaremongering about 3 days per week, I thought the recommendation was going to be to drop Saturday.

That’s what I thought, the initial plan was to drop Saturday. A disgrace if it happens, but nothing surprises me anymore.