rhino49 wrote:
A full national absence however - even for a day, and with a percentage crossing the picket will not get the mail out other than Special Delivery and will get an immediate response from media and pressure on RM from customers.
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On that note.... ive heard t-mobile are scrapping their Special delivery contract and moving to a courier for their phones at the very announcement of a strike
Mad where you getting all this info from
Anyways,guess what,when the one day strike is done,they'll be back because we're the cheapest and the most reliable.
If the courier we're cheaper they would be useing them,or tnt,or business post,or dhl,or..........oh you get my drift
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been. My BFF Clash The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
rachris wrote:I really would like to think us all as union members will stick together (That even includes Tommo and Madsorter!) and keep true to our word and strike when called upon, regardless of our financial position. I seriously don't believe that it would be an all out strike for weeks but a series of sustained one day strikes..But then I could be wrong! The main thing is we show the screws that we mean business and stick together on this. Any dissention in the ranks at this stage would be disasterous and make us look a right load of gutless muppets..If we jump ship at the first hurdle..Just my thoughts!! I'm only a humble unskilled worthless(apparently according to BBC viewers) postie after all.. LOL!
You are a fully trained postal delivery operative Rachris, with more skill than we have seen from some of the crap journos in the media since yesterday who are getting paid more than our paltry 21k (roflmco) basic - time we changed jobs maybe ?
Just in case you dont know , i think for the first time ever, every branch voted to strike . Ive never known such solidarity and i also think we should remember the counters staff and the CIT staff that also delivered massive yes votes . For the first time in a very long time the regional differences have been put to one side and we've finally realised that leighton and co are the real enemies not posties in another part of the country.
chelmsfordpostie wrote:Just in case you dont know , i think for the first time ever, every branch voted to strike . Ive never known such solidarity and i also think we should remember the counters staff and the CIT staff that also delivered massive yes votes . For the first time in a very long time the regional differences have been put to one side and we've finally realised that leighton and co are the real enemies not posties in another part of the country.
Hear,hear Chelms Good to hear.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been. My BFF Clash The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
rhino49 wrote:
A full national absence however - even for a day, and with a percentage crossing the picket will not get the mail out other than Special Delivery and will get an immediate response from media and pressure on RM from customers.
.
On that note.... ive heard t-mobile are scrapping their Special delivery contract and moving to a courier for their phones at the very announcement of a strike
Mad where you getting all this info from
Anyways,guess what,when the one day strike is done,they'll be back because we're the cheapest and the most reliable.
If the courier we're cheaper they would be useing them,or tnt,or business post,or dhl,or..........oh you get my drift
Apparantly we are not cheaper, british telecom depot up north who send out all the broadband modems has switched from special delivery to a courier for that very reason a few months ago, we lost a fortune on that contract
rhino49 wrote:
A full national absence however - even for a day, and with a percentage crossing the picket will not get the mail out other than Special Delivery and will get an immediate response from media and pressure on RM from customers.
.
On that note.... ive heard t-mobile are scrapping their Special delivery contract and moving to a courier for their phones at the very announcement of a strike
Mad where you getting all this info from
Anyways,guess what,when the one day strike is done,they'll be back because we're the cheapest and the most reliable.
If the courier we're cheaper they would be useing them,or tnt,or business post,or dhl,or..........oh you get my drift
Apparantly we are not cheaper, british telecom depot up north who send out all the broadband modems has switched from special delivery to a courier for that very reason a few months ago, lost a fortune on that contact us
Hmmmmmm was never mentioned in the propaganda times (Courier)
They love this sort of stuff,tbh i don't do reg so wouldn't know.
But can't see how it's possibe a courier is cheaper than us!
Anyways,where you getting your info from,when you 1st come on you knew naff all (i mean that in a nice type way )
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been. My BFF Clash The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
it isnt a secret that we lost the bt special delivery contract!!! thats not insider info mate lol think i read it first on the gaffers computer tho haha
Oh and i still know frig all, i didnt even know who was in charge of the business when i joined this site haha, what u are considering 'info' i thought was common knowledge, maybe do's have different gossip eh
madsorter wrote:it isnt a secret that we lost the bt special delivery contract!!! thats not insider info mate lol think i read it first on the gaffers computer tho haha
Oh and i still know frig all, i didnt even know who was in charge of the business when i joined this site haha, what u are considering 'info' i thought was common knowledge, maybe do's have different gossip eh
I've made it my job over the last few months to find out everything about the business.
I know about the actual BT contract,just not the other one.
I best start gossiping more
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been. My BFF Clash The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
Speaking of specials and rival services, i make a lot pf pc's for frineds n stuff so order a lot of gear off online pc suppliers like ebuyer etc, if we are cheaper and more reliable why do they ALWAYS use city link, in about 7 years of making pc's its been business post and now city link who have delivered ALL my stuff, never once RM or parcelforce, so they MUST be cheaper then us????
madsorter wrote:Speaking of specials and rival services, i make a lot pf pc's for frineds n stuff so order a lot of gear off online pc suppliers like ebuyer etc, if we are cheaper and more reliable why do they ALWAYS use city link, in about 7 years of making pc's its been business post and now city link who have delivered ALL my stuff, never once RM or parcelforce, so they MUST be cheaper then us????
They are and they aint (bored moment i had a look )
Just had a look,we're cheaper (registered)on the smaller weight stuff,they're bulker/heavier stuff is cheaper.
Parcelforce is the same-ish as them cheaper in bits.
BUT we do most of the uk,if city link was to do the same as us,ie all over,their prices seriously go up big time.
If you wanted Scotland,Wales ect they are very expensive.
So there's pros and cons for all.
Interestingly i can't see why we can't do more bulky stuff,we seem to be shying away from that with we i mean 'Parcelforce'.
In all honesty with our network we should be shitting over the competition in that respect.
Not sure whether it's a regulator thing though.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been. My BFF Clash The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
I work in the RLE each morning checking the manifests and parts for the British Gas service engineers (we handle for about 40 covering most of the manchester area 'cos other local offices won't or can't) and the PHG on specials is always commenting on the amount of British Telecom modems we are handling - reckons they have a lot of new customers eating into the cable companies cake especially since the various mergers that produced the Virgin Media giant. So it seems they are still using us in this area at least for their deliveries.
Its good to read all the comments regarding poss stike action,
and I sincerly hope that there are EC Member's also reading it.
They must realize that an all out sustained strike will prob not get the support
we are looking for, SHORT, SHARP, HURTFUL, burst's seem's to be the prefered
course of action within this forum, I hope word gets thro to them upstairs!
They now have the support, let's keep our finger's crossed
that they lead us in the right direction to secure an agreement
that we are reasonably happy with.
As per usual we will get the best of a bad deal!!!
But thats still better than no deal at all.
We're not afraid of change, so long as we have a say in which direction the change take's us.
The point is that those who may be worried about the financial consequences of strike action should read again the Royal Mail business plan that is the basis for Leightons ideas.
If they had payed attention they would realize that the consequences of not taking action and supporting the union will be far greater than a few days stopped pay.
todays latest RM release IS bordering on bullying. i think we should have a mass B & H case against messrs crozier and leighton. Leighton posted an article in the sun on friday saying strikes will mean less jobs and less pay. So lets get this straight. less jobs, less pay. Is this man a total buffoon. the RM business plan is all about less jobs and less pay.
BE PREPARED FOR A LONG FIGHT. SOLIDARITY MEANS EVERYTHING. THOSE PEOPLE WHO GET TWITCHY NEED REMINDING, THEY COULD BE PART TIME OR IN NEED OF OTHER EMPLOYMENT IF WE DON'T STICK TOGETHER.
(i mean that in a nice type way 
