daily star today - full page spread NOW WITH PICS LOL

[smokerjim]

Maybe I'm bloody clueless, but would this suggest that RM are starting to get a bit panicky? Maybe they're thinking that they're losing the PR war, and need to do something ( anything! ) I can't see the bloody point - it'd be cheaper and easier to talk to the Union as an equal ( but they conceeded that right some months ago )

[smokerjim]

christ they must be getting desperate to put adds in the star oh yea

stinks of the PR agency that RM have hired - seen RM stuff from a PR agency before . I'd have believed every word if I was aged 8 to 11 .

By " coincidence " The Sun ran a B/S story from a " press agency " apparently , on Dave Ward which had to be pulled . Yeah ! - trust RM .

I've seen Hellmail run a story " quoting " " guilty " Bristol postal workers - by " strange coincidence" it was later dramatically toned down .

I'm certain they don't mind the story getting spiked from the later editions, in fact I'm sure they expect it.....the important thing is that it is in the 1st editions - they are the ones that get sold out first, and the ones most likely to be picked up by commuters ( whether it is the banker on the 6:45 to Charing Cross, the cleaner coming home from the A&E nightshift or the mum stopping off after the school run )

[BarryFromEastenders]

All part of RM's grand plan.

[hazzeem025]

also in the daily express

[smokerjim]

They're all out to get us ( Associated, Murdoch, Desmond et al ), and if Crozier gives them 30 pieces of silver all the better......but even with this crap, we still have the public on our side ( I've not met one customer tell me to stop striking and be glad of a job - one that said the union was wrong going into strikes, but even he said that RM was grossly mis-managed, and the Govt was conspiring with the situation, and he sympathised that we ( the Blue Army ) were getting stuck in the political cross fire )........we WILL prevail

[concerned]

i think the ad is also a PR stunt.....public will see it and think oh look, RM have done everything asked so far and still the staff are striking...what greedy so and so's. That sort of thing.....clever. I said months ago the CWU should have done the same thing with examples of working practices.

[Spedley]

Yes, very greedy. I still haven't payed of half what I lost from the last strikes with the 5.7% (not in real terms) rise we got which I didn't actually want in the first place.

[robmacca]

Royal Mail are so hard up that they are willing to spend MILLIONS on propaganda during the strikes, rather than spend time finding a solution.

One website said:

Advertising in national newspapers is extremely expensive. As an example, it costs over £30,000 for a full page colour ad in The Daily Mail

So making a rough guess that a one page b&w advert could cost £20,000 x 10 national newspapers = £200,000 EACH TIME RM PUT AN ADVERT OUT!

[Richie89]

A full page advert in The Times as well. At least they dont think we all read the Star