Strike impact..

[weara]

Ι was going to work in the morning and I was thinking that it will packed and crazy..
Instead it was like a normal day
Normal parcels,letters..
Is it the same in your office?
Because I wonder what was the impact of our strike
Royal mail didn't pay us yesterday so they have saved money not paying us...
And they just stall the letters and parcels for a day...
I am really worried we will achieve with 1 day strike a week..

[SMS1969]

I read somewhere that the impact will be felt more on Tuesday, that’s when the backlog will come through. We’ll see.

[Acca Dacca]

There was few workers processing and transporting any mail so it will be next week before the effects are noticed

[datasaint]

It could also be people sent their items using other couriers?

[Woody Guthrie]

For delivery today should basically have been like a normal day since only one day's mail actually moved through the system to the delivery offices on Thursday night, very little moved anywhere last night as the drivers were now taking action.

The backlog is further down the network at the moment.

[R5001]

a lot of people don't seem to "get" that the strikes are 4am to 4am, and are based on shift start times (Thus why drivers dropped mail off yesterday, but hopefulyl didn't do much today) meaning the damage lags from the strike date.

[postieblueshirt]

it also has little to do with holding up the mail.its causing no faith in royal mail no faith in the managment the share price will suffer etc etc.we can handle 2 days mail we have for years.

[Frankie15]

Because of the Bank Holiday and then strike on Wednesday I'd say it won't be until about Friday until we see the full impact!!!!!

[Schiff]

The main impact that we want from these strikes is to seriously piss off all the business customers who use Royal Mail to send profitable parcels. It is when they decide in their numbers to switch to other couriers (and probably not return to RM) that the pressure will build on the board to resolve this.

[Frankie15]

We don't want that type of impact. If RM lose the contracts permanently to those companies it would mean job losses!!!! The impact we want is disruption at a huge scale!

[postieblueshirt]

We don't want that type of impact. If RM lose the contracts permanently to those companies it would mean job losses!!!! The impact we want is disruption at a huge scale!

Job losses will be inevitable one way or another.

[ted_e_bear]

Reading above posts that's the whole point of the threat of a strike, neither RM or us want to lose that business.

[billycat]

This is costing royal mail a fortune, a lot of our staff were told to leave all our parcels and packets agency staff were asked to come in early today for nine hours pay so they were scrambling around the office trying to find them work, when i got back to the office 5 of them were sat on the sorting frame nothing to do so when i read peoples comments on here saying no effect from us being on strike yesterday i know that is not true i work at a hub weds and thursday on average i would say between 15 and 20 parcels delivered per 5 hour shift not my calculations but managers.

[Frankie15]

We don't want that type of impact. If RM lose the contracts permanently to those companies it would mean job losses!!!! The impact we want is disruption at a huge scale!

Job losses will be inevitable one way or another.

Hopefully those losses are Simple Simon and his matesys!!!!

[CamPostie]

Were you not taking social media images for every parcel you delivered?