Royal Mail workers may boycott DSA

[POSTMAN]

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Royal Mail workers may boycott delivery of rivals' post

Communication Workers Union highlights threat to the UK's universal postal service


Postal workers could refuse to deliver post sent via anyone other than Royal Mail as part of a campaign to highlight a threat to the UK's universal service, union leaders have warned.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) raised the threat of a boycott because of "unfair" competition, which it said had led to job losses, price rises and fewer services.

Competition on deliveries was undermining the same-price-goes-anywhere universal service, with firms other than Royal Mail not having to meet service standards or pay decent wages, said the union.

The CWU announced plans to hold a consultative ballot in the new year with the intention of boycotting competitors' mail. This would mean that any mail sent via one of Royal Mail's competitors would not be delivered, the union warned.

Billy Hayes, general secretary of the CWU, said: "Today we're launching a major initiative to protect postal services in the face of mounting threats to jobs and services.

"Under unfair competition we've seen prices rise, services diminish, closures and job losses. Competition and privatisation are old-fashioned theories which have had their day. What's important is decent services and jobs and that's what we're standing up for."

The union said that under so-called downstream access arrangements, private companies could "cherry pick" profitable bulk mail contracts, taking revenue streams away from Royal Mail.

They sort and transport mail to a local Royal Mail office where they pay an access fee for Royal Mail postmen and women to deliver that mail – known as the "final mile".

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Also stories popping up everywhere:

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/p ... ott-threat" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;? Threat to bank statements and bills if postal boycott goes ahead - Money Saving Expert website

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-12- ... ry-routes/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;? - Royal Mail: Competitors can 'cherry-pick' delivery routes - ITV

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... eries.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - Letter bomb: Posties vote on boycott over rival deliveries = The Scum - sorry Sun

[ebbzie]

About time

[Haitch P]

A bit too late in the day for a boycott. The damage to Royal Mail has already been done.

[fishtank]

A bit too late in the day for a boycott. The damage to Royal Mail has already been done.

Why is it too late?
While we still have reasonably well paid jobs in a company that's making a profit to protect it's hardly too late..
Too late is when they lock the doors and send you home.
That might yet come but i'm not going to sit on my arse waiting for it to come moaning that it's too late to do anything about it.

[Phantom]

Only nearly 10 years too f***ing late!!!