Massive cuts at Royal Mail - what does it mean for your post

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Royal Mail is in serious trouble. It has emerged that it is getting rid of almost 3,500 jobs, including 1,000 managers and 1,700 back office roles. It will close two mail centres in London - costing 75 jobs. To add insult to injury, there is a good chance that staff won't get the bumper bonuses they were promised before the crunch - or that they will get about half of them.

So what does it mean for you?


All three of these things may well mean trouble for your post.

Staff stretched
The job losses are hard to quantify, because while we are promised they are all from the back office, unless these are entirely worthless jobs with no point or purpose, they are going to have an impact on the front line. Just how serious that impact is remains to be seen, but for a start, who is going to step in and deliver the post when the delivery workers go on strike?

The closure of the mails centres in Bromley-by-Bow, East London, and Nine Elms in South London, meanwhile, is going to cause a squeeze for Londoners. The remaining mail centres are going to come under increasing pressure, and those who are already concerned about the post that gets lost or delayed are not going to be comforted by the fact that the mail centres are going to have to get faster and more ruthless.

Demoralised
The bonuses have always been contentious amongst those of us who can't help feeling it's pointless to give people bonuses just for doing their job - why not just pay them enough in the first place? However, while it's not a brilliant idea to be giving them, it's an even worse idea to promise them and then fail to follow through - it's going to massively demoralise staff, which will not want to do a thing that goes beyond the basic minimums they have to do in order to cling onto their jobs.

So is this the beginning of the end, or the start of a new era? If the much-promised efficiency measures come alongside these moves, and this is the wake-up call the Royal Mail needs to remind it of the realities of the real world, then it may offer some hope. Otherwise it's just a way of massively demoralising staff before demanding more of them... which is never going to end well.

But what do you think? Let us know in the comments.

[Post Off]

This madness will more than likely go unpunished. Those at the top who are now responsible for this decimation will be privately thanked (with sh*t-loads of money) by those who sought to cover up all their sh*t-for-brain-dead solution-less answers, and of course, all in the guise of modernisation.

Well fugg me, if only I knew something about employment law, or business law or something I could use to hit back at all these low-life, sh*t-for-brains, scumbag whores who get paid by the bucket-load for doing fugg all, albeit the same hours, perhaps?

Meanwhile, we in London and elsewhere who will be forever reeling from this so-shocking a' calamity will never see any modernisation (in the true sense) come to fruition, leaving us truly wondering what the fugg has this got to do with readying us for privatisation?

...And as for our customers, that sh*t won't truely hit the fan until the soon-to-get-even-more-shafted-public will be foaming at the mouth about who, why, how and what the fugg has modernisation got to do with totally fugging up their mail, our mail, what's-her-face's mail, the queen, and probably everyone else's mail for years to come -- f***ing c***s!

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it really is now the end of an era

[jimt81]

when staff at my office were told officially that the share scheme was worthless the overwhelming opinion was that it was just another in a long line of royal mail lies, and that any goodwill that was left has finally gone out of the door never to return