SOMEONE NEEDS EDUCATING ABOUT THE STRIKE

[POSTMAN]

This is what we need to do Bri,when we post up news articles on here and there is the comment option we should ALL have a go.
Speak up for ourselves,oh and spread the word bout RMC

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Are you on here

http://tinyurl.com/2c3pk8

18:00 - 09 August 2007

In response to the anonymous, ill-informed reader who trotted a liturgy of half truths concerning the ongoing postal dispute, I feel compelled to illuminate the situation.

Firstly the strike is not about the pay rise, it is understandably 'adequate' given Royal Mail's stated financial position.

It is about a whole raft of job cuts, and a set of changing work practices which not only results in our pay being cut after two years grace, but an ongoing doctrine of putting profits before the customer.

As regards us all finishing at 11.30am, this is a blatant broad brush criticism, as the majority finish on time.

Royal Mail instituted the current work schedule of 'job and finish' which encourages personnel to be as efficient as possible.

Given the variables of topography, age demographics and strength levels its hardly a great surprise that some postmen are faster than others.

Some rounds regularly result in daily overtime, with postman working well over their allotted eight hours work time.

As regards accommodation, not all of us are career postman.

There are a sprinkling of ex technical and professional employees who by dint of hard work and endeavour have accrued a reasonable standard of living.

This comment I can only attribute to jealously and ignorance - as if the lowly postie should not live in anything other than a rented two-up-two-down.

The public who feel compelled to write such fatuous letters to local newspapers, would be better employed writing to the mail regulator who hamstrings Royal Mail, and cherry picks our most profitable businesses, only to give them away to new incoming competitors.

Do not think that these new companies want to deliver your mail to the back of beyond, why? Because there is no profit in it.

That's what motivates this whole dispute, profit, not the customer.

[bigsharkboy]

Are you on here

http://tinyurl.com/2c3pk8

18:00 - 09 August 2007

In response to the anonymous, ill-informed reader who trotted a liturgy of half truths concerning the ongoing postal dispute, I feel compelled to illuminate the situation.

Firstly the strike is not about the pay rise, it is understandably 'adequate' given Royal Mail's stated financial position.

It is about a whole raft of job cuts, and a set of changing work practices which not only results in our pay being cut after two years grace, but an ongoing doctrine of putting profits before the customer.

As regards us all finishing at 11.30am, this is a blatant broad brush criticism, as the majority finish on time.

Royal Mail instituted the current work schedule of 'job and finish' which encourages personnel to be as efficient as possible.

Given the variables of topography, age demographics and strength levels its hardly a great surprise that some postmen are faster than others.

Some rounds regularly result in daily overtime, with postman working well over their allotted eight hours work time.

As regards accommodation, not all of us are career postman.

There are a sprinkling of ex technical and professional employees who by dint of hard work and endeavour have accrued a reasonable standard of living.

This comment I can only attribute to jealously and ignorance - as if the lowly postie should not live in anything other than a rented two-up-two-down.

The public who feel compelled to write such fatuous letters to local newspapers, would be better employed writing to the mail regulator who hamstrings Royal Mail, and cherry picks our most profitable businesses, only to give them away to new incoming competitors.

Do not think that these new companies want to deliver your mail to the back of beyond, why? Because there is no profit in it.

That's what motivates this whole dispute, profit, not the customer.

[kinmad4it]

Christ! I wish could be that eloquent even just once. That's just brilliant

[Rai3931]

Sorry to butt in on this thread, just wanted to add my two-cents........

I'm starting as a newbie fairly soon. I've had all the comments - "Postie, what the Hell you want to do that for? Crap pay, slogging it out all weathers, blah blah blah...." Then they'll inevitably go off on one about their own postie, "he/she's such a lazy bugger, never gets my mail to me on time, my mate keeps seeing him/her nattering away to whats-her-face when they should be getting on with the job..." For Christ's sake, you'd think every Tom, Dick and Harry had the worst postie on the planet, the way they go off on one.

Thing is...I'm not in this for the pay benefits (which is a bloody good thing, let's be honest.) I'm in it coz I'm not prepared to be one of those lazy c***s - who, incidentally, are the ones giving posties grief - who sit smugly on his/her fat ass all day in a nice office job. Yeah, their paypacket might be Hell loads' bigger'n mine; they might be sat comfy and warm in mid-Winter, or nicely air-con'd in Summer heatwaves. But at the end of the day, I'm going for a job that I might actually believe in, one that keeps me fit, and (I'm only guessing here) it's gotta be pretty hard to get bored when you're concentrating on a) staying alive on busy roads on your bike b) delivering to the right addy's c) remembering to be polite and friendly to all and sundry.

I've not even started yet, but I've seen what our posties in town go through. And, having read plenty of posts on this site, I'm getting an even more graphic insight into just what I'm letting myself in for. But I'm not put off. I might be a wet-behind-the-ears berk, and a newbie to boot, but I'll bet I've got more drive and oomph than those smug tossers in their cushy little jobs.

Easy job? Yeah, and my Mom's Shilpa f***ing Shetty.

[L Tommo]

AND ANOTHER THING IF WE ARE SO WELL PAID HOW COME A POSTMAN WITH A WIFE AND KIDS (WIFE NOT WORKING) CAN CLAIM STATE BENIFIT OR WHAT EVER THE f**k YOU CALL IT NOW DAY'S. IV'E GOT TO STOP NOW I CAN FEEL MY HEAD ABOUT TO EXPLODE.

Right Now Jaffer Mate... Ave a lay down and chill... That james hunt is a plant.. or just a screw... Chill ya self mucka... Im just back yest from Newcastle, And watching my team get wholloped 2s im well pissed off.... But life goes on and i can now think of happy things like that blokes family getting bulldozered in to the street when they get evicted or house burnt down by a freak act of god.. (some nut truck obsessed with pyromania...)Or his wife being gang banged by a dozen babboons in a zoo... Now thats funny

Na i make ya right tho.. Im mad as hell about that prick... but we all know RM and there bullshite works for them w*****s!!!

OUT... :cfo :lfo

[somerset]

This is what we need to do Bri,when we post up news articles on here and there is the comment option we should ALL have a go.
Speak up for ourselves,oh and spread the word bout RMC

Surprised comments were printed 16th august. But i havn't a clue as to how to post them on here? HELP ANYONE??

[bertie]

Sorry but I didn't realise how hard posties worked until I became one. ps. :lfo :cfo

[POSTMAN]

This is what we need to do Bri,when we post up news articles on here and there is the comment option we should ALL have a go.
Speak up for ourselves,oh and spread the word bout RMC

Surprised comments were printed 16th august. But i havn't a clue as to how to post them on here? HELP ANYONE??

Usually if you go to your address bar at the top,the web page you're looking at address will be in there.
Click on it,it should highlight,then right click and copy,then you can paste it in a post.

[baldrick]

This is what we need to do Bri,when we post up news articles on here and there is the comment option we should ALL have a go.
Speak up for ourselves,oh and spread the word bout RMC

Surprised comments were printed 16th august. But i havn't a clue as to how to post them on here? HELP ANYONE??

Usually if you go to your address bar at the top,the web page you're looking at address will be in there.
Click on it,it should highlight,then right click and copy,then you can paste it in a post.

Thanks for that Postman. I don't know much about this IT stuff, but have written your wise words
of guidance down, and will try to put them into practice!

[DGP1]

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[POSTMAN]

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I think there's a 'Highlight' in there somewhere.

[DGP1]

Right click - copy - paste : Right click - copy - paste : Right click - copy - paste : Right click - copy - paste

I think there's a 'Highlight' in there somewhere.

Yep you're right Right click - highlight - copy - paste

[baldrick]

Can you now tell me how to get one of these flashy Avatar thingies?

[DGP1]

Can you now tell me how to get one of these flashy Avatar thingies?

You'll need to find the avatar you want then Right click - highlight - copy - paste the url onto the avatar section in your profile