Postal workers speak out - Bexhill

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Bexhill's postal delivery service is in crisis according to employees who contacted the Observer to voice their concern.
Job vacancies are not being filled and cost-cutting measures are damaging local delivery claimed one postal delivery worker who is "totally ashamed" of what is happening in the industry.

"I cannot identify myself other than to say I am a regular postal worker who delivers mail to the residents of Bexhil having worked for Royal Mail many years now.

"The problems at Bexhill delivery office are replicated all over the country. We have all been issued with a preference exercise to buy down our hours or ask for redundancy.

"The service we provide the public is suffering. Undertraining and an increasing reliance on part-time or casual staff is having a detrimental effect on our reliability.

"Misdelivered letters are all too common now; doorstepping of packets is becoming the norm. Letter intended to be redirected to new addresses are going to old addresses. Postal workers are running across gardens, leaving red elastic bands all over the roads and paths of our beautiful town. Postal workers are being asked to carry mail in their own private cars even.

"So I beg of your readers please where you have a legitimate complaint about the service of the Royal Mail locally please contact Royal Mail's customer services or the local manager direct with your complaint, so they can see how their national actions are having a local impact."

Postal workers recently held public awareness events to draw attention to the Government's proposal on part-privatising the service.
Local employees campaigned in Devonshire Square and also attended a gathering in Hastings to highlight their concerns about the future of their industry.

Another postal worker this week said: "We have six vacant positions after one postal worker was sacked a couple of weeks ago and another today...these vacancies are not being filled. They are looking for 300 hours which equates to about 7.5 full time jobs. Deliveries are now being carried out by managers on an increasingly frequent basis as we haven't got enough staff in the office to cope.

"This is also happening at Battle delivery office where they are close to balloting for industrial action. St Leonards and Hastings also are having to collapse the delivery of packets and parcels in order to deliver letters. It's chaos."

The Observer contacted Bexhill delivery office for a response from local management but none was forthcoming.

A Royal Mail spokesman said: "We urgently need to accelerate the pace of change in the face of a 10 per cent decline in UK mail volumes in all our 1,600 delivery offices nationwide, with the aim of maintaining customer service.

"However, we do not anticipate any redundancies in Bexhill delivery office.
"Nevertheless, we face real challenges; the decline in traditional mail use, the impact of the economic recession and ever stronger competition.

"This is alongside the unavoidable need to modernise the ways we work and the technology we use. We are making changes in a calm, measured and structured way, inviting continuous involvement and dialogue with our unions and our people, and seeking to minimise service disruption to our customers, whilst we change."

[TrueBlueTerrier]

"This is alongside the unavoidable need to modernise the ways we work and the technology we use. We are making changes in a calm, measured and structured way, inviting continuous involvement and dialogue with our unions and our people, and seeking to minimise service disruption to our customers, whilst we change."

The scary thing is RM HQ actually believe they are doing exactly this.

[Stormproof]

Sounds just like my office. Shame there is no comments page with that article.

[k979aaa]

"This is alongside the unavoidable need to modernise the ways we work and the technology we use. We are making changes in a calm, measured and structured way, inviting continuous involvement and dialogue with our unions and our people, and seeking to minimise service disruption to our customers, whilst we change."

The scary thing is RM HQ actually believe they are doing exactly this.

The thing is why are they paying their script writer any more too keep sending out the same old bullsh1t!.

[DGP1]

The Stepford Spokesmen

[pinstripe]

"However, we do not anticipate any redundancies in Bexhill delivery office."

As they want to remove over 400 hours from St Leonards and I imagine a similar amount from Hastings and Bexhill, I wonder just how they imagine they are going to do it.
RM please note that EVR is still redundancy! At least now we know the reason behind RM's "preference exercise" on EVR and Buy Downs two weeks before they anounced this.

[axeman]

again we see the royal fail chant 'our people' i'm afraid i'm one who thinks that this 'term' should be consinged to the bin. A totaly degrading term in my book but 'a typical' from the likes of crozier who think royal fail 'owns' the right to treat us as minions this is almost what 'chairman mao' used to say .......is the royal fail exercise based on commy ideals wherby they dictate everything and youv'e no recourse but to obey ? bet crozier expects those wearing a hat to doff it in his pressence after youv'e got up from bowing to him Scots must be ashamed of this leach

[Pat Ostman]

again we see the royal fail chant 'our people' i'm afraid i'm one who thinks that this 'term' should be consinged to the bin.

[taxi4leighton]

im scottish and totally ashamed of Crozier.we now have "Thatchers Children" in control, people from the 80,s
who have no morals or scruples, greed is indeed their god.the smear campaign they spread would make Goebbels proud. tell a lie often enough, and most people will believe it. this is one struggle we must win

[Fred B]

again we see the royal fail chant 'our people' i'm afraid i'm one who thinks that this 'term' should be consinged to the bin. A totaly degrading term in my book but 'a typical' from the likes of crozier who think royal fail 'owns' the right to treat us as minions this is almost what 'chairman mao' used to say .......is the royal fail exercise based on commy ideals wherby they dictate everything and youv'e no recourse but to obey ? bet crozier expects those wearing a hat to doff it in his pressence after youv'e got up from bowing to him Scots must be ashamed of this leach

They call us "our people" because they like to push the idea that we're all on the same side. It's condescending drivel from maggots who live off our labour.