*The Lone Postie* wrote:Why do i get a bad feeling were walking into a trap by striking!RM/Govt seem to be all geared up for this.However their plan can only work if we cave in after a few weeks national if we can last we have a chance!!?
I'm a customer and I've been lurking on here for a while. The Lone Postie has brought me out of hiding, as he/she seems to be the only person who has worked it out.
You are all so busy fighting for a past that is long gone that you can't see what's happening. And before you all start hurling abuse and writing me off as a plant, hear me out for a minute.
You've chosen to maximise disruption for customers, ie people like me, by staggering the strike. Rather than just make your point by having one-off strikes on one-off days so people like me know when to post and when not to post. You've tied it to a weekend and half term which makes you look lazy, workshy and opportunistic. Those of you that strike, well your names will be on 'the list' for the next round of redundancies. Between now and then you'll get abuse from frustrated customers, large and small. If you honestly think, as some of you seem to here, that the public are 'with you' you are absolutely deluded. Take yourself over to Twitter, put 'Royal Mail' in the search box and you'll find pages and pages of abuse by customers whose packages have already gone astray, pay cheques haven't turned up, time sheets didn't get to them in time so they didn't get their overtime, official documents of all sorts which haven't turned up, small business owners who haven't received the parts they need etc etc. It goes on and on. And that's just the fall-out from the unofficial strikes, the great British Public hasn't even started yet.
I read today that Royal Mail have hired hundreds of unemployed drivers to move post around during the strikes and that they've rented warehouse space to sort out parcels to avoid all Ebay customers moving to alternative methods after this first wave of strikes is past (because, inevitably, there'll be more). They didn't just do that overnight now did they. Did you honestly think they were going to stand by and let you hold them to ransom and destroy Royal Mail in the process as they watch the likes of Amazon, John Lewis, House of Fraser switch to alternative carriers? It's their business too remember, their livelihood they can see going down the toilet. You're leaving them with no other choice but to play hardball.
When this is all over your jobs will be lost, your Union Leaders will be holed up with their cigars in their big houses writing their memoires and you'll be left with your memories that you seem to value so much - I hope you enjoy them, because you won't have much else. And if you think management will cave in - well think about Mandy for a moment. Do you think he'll let them? He will stop at nothing when he decides he wants something, and he's made it pretty clear that he doesn't want this.
My Dad was a postman. I know it's hard. I know most of you do a wonderful job, mostly unthanked, and the public generally only notice when things go wrong rather than the 90% of the time when things work well. But this road is the suicide road for you.
Write me off as a plant if you want, it doesn't matter to me. But for your own sake THINK ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING and how things would look to you if you weren't so close to it.
I'm off now as I know the bullets will start flying.
Connie
OUT DUE TO PEOPLE CUTTING OFF, IS, QUOTE:
- too much of a coincidence - Uncle Silas appearing 
- I doubt if it will be back , staff were rumbling him . Postman Fluffy with all their plants mustn't be getting enough hits 
.At the end of the investagation they said they would be back to us with there findings 