'DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING OR EVEN ......WHY?!'
Can anyone give a very real convincing answer as to why this 'aggreement' that we are all suffering needs to come in. I doubt it.
We are told that we 'NEED' TO CHANGE THE WAY WE DO THINGS!.........WHY? WHAT IS THE REASON?
Who is telling, sorry, enforcing these changes?
We are told the same rubbish and propaganda over and over again and that 'WE' must accept these changes as the biblical answer to all our woes!
We are told that 'we' have to be more competitive and efficient and guess what.....this is in an UNFAIR PLAYING FIELD TO START WITH. 'DSA' is a prime example of other fat cats getting rich off your back and mine.
We HAD the best and most envied postal service in the WORLD, not so long ago, the cheapest, the most efficient, respected, trusted and the ONLY government owned department that ACTUALLY MAKES MONEY!
Now the whole thing is a pawn in a political chess game and we can all be sacrificed in the name of 'MODERNISATION'.
The only way that 'WE' as postmen and women of Royal Mail can survive this pathetic, ill thought out disaster that awaits Royal Mail, is for 'US POSTIES' to do what other people in business have done to protect their own livelihoods, jobs and services, and that includes our 'USO' obligations.
The NEC of the CWU need to actually for once, get back into bed with their members and NOT in th bed of the Employer.
I can guarantee that in any discussions, the actual faceless bureaucrats behind all of this are never mentioned, that being the EU and it's articles contained both within the Maastrict and Lisbon Treaties.
The Regulator is nothing more than an EU PUPPET and likewise any subsequent legislation that our government has brought in to comply with its directives.
It is this which has destroyed the job we did and loved, not just ourselves, but also the customer, both the sender and the recipients view on this.
The only future that I can see for the protection of our pay and conditions and as a real means of achieving an actual say in how 'WE' as posties can influence how 'WE' want and need to do things, rather than being told,
'You will do these changes and this way of working',
is for us workers to form a ROYAL MAIL CO-OPERATIVE, in essence dumping the senior management and the employer as a whole and 'going it alone', were 'we' run the show on how 'we' believe it should be run.
Management would call that a mutiny or a revolution, but if your officer is going to get you killed or your ship sunk without a proper mission purpose to fulfill, then he or she, needs to go.
Royal Mail is now a ship in uncharted waters, being driven by blind overpaid officers with little navigational experience and success in weathering the storm or indeed, finding 'the promise land'. The rudder has come adrift and the engines are failing.
'Those engines being 'THE MORALE OF THE CREW'.......US!
We need to be honest with ourselves. The employer is not and will not act in the best interests of you as an employee or the customer. They say otherwise but the speed at which these revisions are being forced in tells you a different story.
It's a simple case of 'put up and shut up!'
RM has this idea that the receiving customer does not matter as much as the sender because it is the sender who pays RM the money.
With the growth in online shopping, IT IS THE RECIPIENT WHO DOES PAY RM THE MONEY INDIRECTLY THROUGH POST & PACKING CHARGES.
If I order a T-Shirt, I pay the postage on my bill. How short sighted can our employer be? And these are the very people who 'we' are supposed to have faith in?
We are force fed the propaganda in the courier of well we are doing and yet I see more and more independent, private firms, individuals, global companies etc. muscling in doing the things that the customers want (and pay for) quite simply because 'WE Don't! anymore.
The issue of p739 cards is a disgrace. Posties have had all discretion removed in how we deal with our customers and their needs on an individual basis. Everything now has to be 'One size fits all!' but in the real world, that never happens.
RM risks further alienating the general public and I can't help but feel that this is being done deliberately with a view to DESTROYING ROYAL MAIL AND ALL NATIONAL CARRIERS OF EU COUNTRIES, because if you study how the EU wants to be and is trying in it's misguided belief that NATIONAL institutions are evil, wants to put down all such organisations, in it's mad attempt to harmonize Europe as a single European super state with NO national emblems or institutions that pertain to an individual country.
Just like EURO notes that have false buildings that don't exist on them so as not to be 'nationalistic' in favour of one country over another, it has created a situation and a trap which has led to the demise of all such things with 'NATIONAL' in the titles or have an association with nationhood.
The NHS is another one being carved up, privatised, call it what you like, blame who like in Westminster, but the truth is, that real enemies of the state, hide in Brussels.
Rant over.....for now. :vcfo :dcfo :ncfo
