postmanplod69 wrote:The way i look at it maybe there will be 20% job losses if saturdays go ie no floating duty on delivery but the way things are going at the moment on delivery im sure you would get 50% of posties possibly more wanting voluntary redundancy if it was offered.
Its a yes from me!!
They won't offer any VR,they are doing their best to avoid it in delivery now...they will just terminate contracts...remember we will probably be a private company by then.
postmanplod69 wrote:The way i look at it maybe there will be 20% job losses if saturdays go ie no floating duty on delivery but the way things are going at the moment on delivery im sure you would get 50% of posties possibly more wanting voluntary redundancy if it was offered.
Its a yes from me!!
I really think getting rid of Saturday deliveries is the thin end of the wedge.
If they can change from a 6 day USO to a 5 Day USO they next stage would be to make RM a 5 day delivery service with a weekly USO for rural deliveries. Then perhaps in the future a 3 delivery service over 5 days for urban.
Getting rid of Saturday is, IMHO a single step on to a slippery slope.
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no we should keep sat deliveries this is yet another ploy to wittle our company down to nothing for a cheap sell off that will only benefit our lying fat wage cat waste of space government ...leave royal mail alone
ive also noticed that TNT seems to be witholding mail as i personally have had 4 items of my personal mail not arrive and all the complaints i get in work at customer services abuse line involve downstream access whats going on guys do you think thisis deliberate ,to further grind our Co down
No! As others have already explained: this is just the beginning. They want to errode the USO, to the point where they can abolish it, without too much resistance.
Don't knock Insanity
it's just another outlook on Reality!
Better tell Vince Cable then he was the one who first mentioned getting rid of Saturdays. But then as Minster for Business Affairs his ivory tower is higher than most.
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Yes for the following reasons:
1. I will get to spend more time with my b.f who lives quite a way from me so don't see him much during the week.
2. Wont ever have to struggle to get a saturday off to attend the numerous car shows i go to.
3. Because we dont have a day off during the week and sats are compulsory.
Anyone saying it's thin edge of the wedge stuff is putting up a total red-herring.
The Con-Dems will wipe their arses on the USO as they are currently suggesting. Mon-Fri deliveries is not an enabler to abandoning the current USO it is just part of the larger buisness decision to make the service more 'commercially viable'. The USO isn't sacred, it's a promise to customers made in the day before mail market liberalisation which is now not realistic. The market has been rigged to make this the case as we know by Capitalist scum in Brussels.
I really hope that all of you selfish folks voting to get rid of working Saturdays are still with RM to reap the benefit if this ever actually happens.
That matrix system can be a real b@sta@rd,so i hear....
scrap saturday deliveries .... hell yes , the sooner the better . and as an added bonus i can drink more beer on friday nights without having to worry about getting up at stupid 0`clock on saturday morning .
I'm a "no" vote - I don't want to see anyone losing their job over this - although what we think won't count anyway - the powers that be will just do what they want.
I hate working Saturdays - hate it with a passion - lifting letter boxes and smelling bacon and toast - its torture.
makes my Saturday