item on RM website . . . . please explain

billypants · Post by **billypants** » 06 Aug 2007, 21:15

anyone explain this on the royal mail website . . . . . .

The impact of official strike action for week commencing Monday 6th August.

Our International hub (HWDC) will be on official strike from 19.00 on Monday 6th August till 19.00 Tuesday 7th August. As a result, Royal Mailâ€™s international services, Airsure, International Signed For and Airmail will be subject to delays.
All Regional Distribution Centres (RDCs) and our Network drivers will be on official strike from 12:00 noon, Tuesday 7th August till 12:00 noon on Wednesday 8th August. There may be limited bulk mail collections but these are likely to be earlier in the day than usual.
The following Mail Centres will be on official strike from 3am Wednesday 8th August until 3am Thursday 9th August: Gatwick, Reading and Dartford. Customers may continue to post items, as usual on this day, but we recommend posting in Post Boxes only. There will be limited business collections in these areas on Wednesday August 8th.
The following Delivery Offices will be on official strike from 3am Wednesday 8th August until 3am Thursday 9th August: Crewe, Portsmouth, Gatwick, Reading, Truro, Swansea and Dartford. We regret that there will be no delivery services in these areas on Wednesday 8th August. Collections will be limited to a single collection from Post Boxes outside of Post Offices, and may be earlier than the normal advertised times.
The situation from Thursday 9th August until Friday 17th August is unclear, but the majority of Mail Centres are very likely to be on strike from 7pm on Thursday 9th August until 7pm on Friday 10th August. We suggest all customers posting mail into a Mail Centre bring their mailings forward wherever possible to avoid the strike.
Parcelforce Worldwideâ€™s guaranteed services will remain unaffected.
Royal Mailâ€™s Branch Direct, Sameday and Door to Door services remain unaffected.
All other mail services will be subject to delay.
The impact of the strike action from Thursday 9th August is currently being assessed. We will clarify the situation as soon as possible. We have well-developed contingency plans and will continue to do everything possible to minimise the impact of strike action on our customers.

Unofficial strike action

Services may also be affected by incidences of unofficial strike action. We will do all we can to minimise disruption to our customers, but some disruption is inevitable when unofficial action is being taken, For the latest information on unofficial action, please contact our customer helplines - 08457 740 740 and 08457 950 950.

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why have several mail centres and delivery offices been singled out with the others left as a "maybe" ?

shelanda · Post by **shelanda** » 06 Aug 2007, 21:20

These MCs were subject to an embarrassing mix up so could not go out on strike last week so now have to do 2 this week to make up for it I think that they are well pissed off about it

billypants · Post by **billypants** » 06 Aug 2007, 21:38

Gotcha . . . . cheers Shelanda

Post by **rhino49** » 06 Aug 2007, 22:40

shelanda wrote:These MCs were subject to an embarrassing mix up so could not go out on strike last week so now have to do 2 this week to make up for it I think that they are well pissed off about it

Hope the guys put some aside for the double stoppage - they've got my respect for accepting two days out in one week - hope members nearby send a few prezzies to their picket lines.