postmanchat closed

Night Tonic · Post by **Night Tonic** » 03 Dec 2007, 12:41

Lol - you could say that of this one. Every site tends to have its own slant. You go where you feel comfortable I guess.

axeman · Post by **axeman** » 03 Dec 2007, 13:34

no suprises this site was set up by royal mail knowing that strikes were pending with regards to the 'plan' it was moderated by 'non' strikers quite suspicious in itself also the admin made no secrets about crossing the picket line but there again he was a manager anyway. The site was run from an office within r.m as most of the mods etc were coming on line at regular times the only way this would be posible is by sitting next to the next 'wave' of mod's as it were

Anyway they were comlete arse*oles any way, and you dare not speak anything except r.m rhetoric

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 03 Dec 2007, 13:44

Just by way of confirmation. Also so I could try something out.

Post by **dvbuk55** » 03 Dec 2007, 13:59

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:

Just by way of confirmation. Also so I could try something out.

What an abrupt ending - still - alls well that ends well.

Night Tonic · Post by **Night Tonic** » 03 Dec 2007, 14:11

axeman wrote:no suprises this site was set up by royal mail knowing that strikes were pending with regards to the 'plan' it was moderated by 'non' strikers quite suspicious in itself also the admin made no secrets about crossing the picket line but there again he was a manager anyway. The site was run from an office within r.m as most of the mods etc were coming on line at regular times the only way this would be posible is by sitting next to the next 'wave' of mod's as it were

Anyway they were comlete arse*oles any way, and you dare not speak anything except r.m rhetoric

Much of that is rhetoric Axeman. PMC definately wasn't based at RM HQ - was based up north. Newcastle, Sunderland, somewhere that way. News article on Hellmail (which it now redirects to I notice), explains why it closed. Seems reasonable. Forums hog bandwidth to say the least. If I got a sudden wave of Spitfire enthusiasts I'd be in the same boat. Can cost a fortune and members won't cough up enough to keep them going.

DirtyHarry · Post by **DirtyHarry** » 03 Dec 2007, 14:21

Blimey, you can tell it was a site run by management, no thankyou to it's members, just a "the site's now closed, goodbye.", message.
Oh, well, only to be expected I suppose.

Night Tonic · Post by **Night Tonic** » 03 Dec 2007, 14:23

Hang up your mail pouch and don't hang around this office anymore. Oh, and please return your uniform.

Post by **stephen500** » 03 Dec 2007, 14:50

After what i just read on Hellmail i am glad its closed!

axeman · Post by **axeman** » 03 Dec 2007, 14:54

n.t kept an eye for a good period of time not saying it was set by a postie or manager but most deffinatly financed by r.m and now is surplus to requirements
how many mod's / admins do you see on line 3/4 in the morning regularly ? unless your doing a night shift

and of course have acces to a puter
there are other reasons but not going to discuss those

and further more iv'e just read hellfails 'tribute' to 'craig' now if thats enough to make you think exactly why pmc was set up it's main objective was to undermine the union and it's members i'm afraid i could not relate to many of the posters there as the bias was to pro r.m for me you had to be a sc*b
otherwise you faced the wrath of the admin, s.a etc....

DirtyHarry · Post by **DirtyHarry** » 03 Dec 2007, 15:03

stephen500 wrote:After what i just read on Hellmail i am glad its closed!

Yeah, I've just read it as well, stomach churning or what?

Post by **britwrit** » 03 Dec 2007, 15:25

Bye bye little astro-turf site. Don't forget to write.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 03 Dec 2007, 15:31

Somehow I don't see Hell Mail doing a reciprocal hot link with us. But was it coincidence that they had a pro CWU article on a few days ago.

. Probably.

sevenandseven · Post by **sevenandseven** » 03 Dec 2007, 17:51

Used both this site and the other, even had comments that disappeared though I considered them mild. All the same the conspiracy theory is a little extreme. A month or so ago the bloke that runs it was complaining of the cost - something like Â£30 a month - and asking whether people would like to make donations. The resulting poll was hardly encouraging so I can see why he ditched it - bearing in mind he claimed to have others jobs. One thing he didn't have were the animated emoticons that appear on here and when overused sometime make it difficult to read articles. Minor moan.

TornadoT · Post by **TornadoT** » 03 Dec 2007, 17:52

I can assure you all that Postmanchat was not run by managers.

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 03 Dec 2007, 18:22

I hope those extremists from PMC don't show up on here.