Another piece of lazy journalism.

[jaylime]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/crist ... ostComment" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[zola4ever]

Yeah I have just clicked on the link. What a stupid bitch, I bet she's out in all weathers

[postiel]

check the date

[BettySwollocks]

Thats an old article, and the majority of the replies seem to be in our favour,
clueless f****r she is.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

That particular story has appeared on here a few times, and she always gets a telling off.

http://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/communit ... tina+Odone" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

even got Moya Greene replying to her http://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/communit ... ne#p485246" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/communit ... ne#p563700" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I particularly like 1 comment on the article which said - "All the malice of Machiavelli – but sadly none of his skill"

PS Nothing wrong with posting old stories - we have members on here who won't have seen it and any post which promotes discussion is worthwhile and welcome.

[wabbithunta]

I wonder if Cristina Odone has even bothered to take another look at how we work, since she wrote that piece of drivel, and even bothered to actually spend time out on delivery with posties.. and not some lovely easy duty but a real dog of a duty that has all manner of problems that face a postie on their rounds each day.
Put her on something like that and see how she performs.

[Rory]

Well that annoyed me as I sit here tired from delivery. How thick must you be to generalise a whole workforce, how do these people get jobs as journalists?

[wabbithunta]

It still annoys, angers and irks people and this drivel was written and printed back in 2012.

[Chitchat]

Yeah its great tnt are here to save the day with its 3 day a week delivery service that cherry picks the most profitable routes and threatens to undermine the future sustainability of Royal Mails 6 day a week one price nationwide service.

[houseoflords]

Lazy Tory, probably doesnt even take her own dog for a walk. If we are that rubbish why doesn't she join and see how well she does.

[DB1100]

Well that annoyed me as I sit here tired from delivery. How thick must you be to generalise a whole workforce, how do these people get jobs as journalists?

Journalist's are of the same ilk as politicians,they are liars, thieves and neither should be trusted.

[krussel]

Slated in the comments and quite rightly so.

Love this one :

This is taken from an article in the Scotman dated Thursday 11th Dec 2008. The article is contemporary with the postal workers being asked to complete deliveries, the number of which to be calculated on the basis of averaging 4 mph.

'PAH. Piece of cake," I said, when set the task of walking along Princes Street in Edinburgh at 4mph.

As a keen runner, with longer than average legs, I thought it was a derisory task.

How wrong I was.

First I walked the length of Edinburgh's famous shopping street at 2.4mph – the speed posties are apparently currently told to aim for. It did feel a little like a dawdle. Hordes of shoppers were overtaking me, and I felt a little like I was getting in the way. It was a cold day and I wanted to speed up to keep myself warm.

So I approached the task of upping my pace to 4mph with confidence. Armed with a GPS-enabled watch to measure my speed, I set off briskly. When I looked down to check my speed, expecting to have to slow my pace, I was shocked to discover I was going nowhere near fast enough.

I swung my arms, stretched out my legs and charged ahead as fast as I could. I felt a bit like I was taking part in a walking race, legs firing back and forth like pistons, hips going 19 to the dozen. I dodged shoppers, my makeshift postal bag (a laptop in its case) banging against my hip and threatening to whack passersby. Some looked at me in alarm as I charged towards them, and either froze or quickly stepped out of the way. Even the chuggers and market researchers looked wary and decided to avoid me – so walking that fast does have some benefits.

Once again, I looked at my running watch, certain this time it would show me I was going at least 4mph. It told me I was walking at 16.5 minutes per mile, whereas I needed to keep it at 15. Dejected, I could not believe my pace was still too slow to meet the target. My time suffered even more when I was forced to stop repeatedly at pedestrian crossings.

By the end of the 0.81-mile walk, my heart was pounding and I was beginning to sweat.

The conclusion I reached was that it was utterly impossible to walk consistently at 4mph. I walked less than a mile.
For postal workers who have to walk for hours, it would clearly be even more difficult.

I dropped my pace to return to the newsroom, where fortunately we are not told to walk, type, eat or do anything else at minimum speeds, but just to meet deadlines.

On the way to the office, I passed a red-faced postman waiting for a bus at the end of his shift, looking tired and slightly fed up. I felt his pain.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/c.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Odone.

[Grinder64]

Cupid stunt

[k979aaa]

Maybe she should try it someday when she is not giving oral dictation to the editor for allowing her an air to a grievance!

[wabbithunta]

Maybe she should try it someday when she is not giving oral dictation to the editor for allowing her an air to a grievance!

ooh err... fnarr, fnarr...!