Remember When We Were Consignia?

gingernut · Post by **gingernut** » 26 Aug 2008, 20:32

When we were consignia it was 9 30 last letter. Does any one remember? They could become the good old days

norbert · Post by **norbert** » 27 Aug 2008, 19:19

disheartened wrote:I do believe the name was changed to "Consignia"as it would of been a lot easier to privatise the company if the word "Royal"was not in there,but pressure made them change it back,so they could'nt screw the company up then,now they are trying to bankrupt it and drive it in to the ground

The spin and hype that always follows Leighton would like you to believe that he had the Consignia nonsense stopped immediately , however he was allegedly less forthcoming about the £500,000 Golden Handshake for Elmer Toime and the "personalty clashes " - it's also "interesting " that Crozier was made head of letters immediately after a media shafting on C4's "Dispatches ' .

Nice to see this site back and not have to read rubbish about dawdling posties stroking cats - WTF ? & bent posties on a certain site .

Post by **BIG AL** » 02 Sep 2008, 21:55

I still have the silver [paint?] tie pin which was given to me along with some other worthless certificate for 15 years loyal service.
It must be a collectable [sell on Ebay?]; what a laugh, we were all waiting for the new uniforms to go along with the new name/image.

Stand Free!

Phantom · Post by **Phantom** » 08 Sep 2008, 11:39

Ah yes when everything came under the "The Post Office Ltd" umbrella, then a quick change to "Consignia Plc" split the "The Post Office Ltd" off and then change back to "Royal Mail Group Plc" without "The Post Office Ltd" So infact we were split in half and moved from LTD to PLC and thats the only reason they did it.

Post by **rainbowwarrior72** » 07 Nov 2009, 11:17

I got a Consignia long service badge when I did my 10years

SeriousSam · Post by **SeriousSam** » 09 Nov 2009, 10:46

hehe long time no see

keepsmilingxx · Post by **keepsmilingxx** » 13 Jun 2010, 12:39

evilc wrote:
Zorro wrote:Ahhhh......the glory days!!!
How many of u kept the pin badge that we were given at the time?

I have n dunno why, wot a waste of time n money, perhaps it'll b worth summat one day!

Post by **gj1023** » 16 Jun 2010, 15:54

Remember when we were the GPO and use to empty the coin boxs out of phone boxs .

When we use to work 12 hours days at Xmas , one dly in the morning and one in the afternoon and do a dly on Sundays.

When We had no passenger seats in the vans and we could carry half the dly in the front. When we had morris minor vans and if you did not take the key with you, the van would lock , because it had a yale lock.

Now they were glory days

Post by **plainpat** » 17 Jun 2010, 22:32

The practise had stopped before I joined in 1990, but I understand we used to deliver the football pools to every house (not in envelopes). I think they were every fortnight? I remember some of my older colleagues commenting when someone went sick or absent how they would be stacked up on the top of the frames and not touched on overtime.

Presume there was no extra payment for delivering them?

hunnybunny73 · Post by **hunnybunny73** » 04 Nov 2010, 17:10

evilc wrote:
Zorro wrote:Ahhhh......the glory days!!!
How many of u kept the pin badge that we were given at the time?

my partner got a bronze one for his 10 year service, was there 12 years before he got

it

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