Postal strike on friday....again

[dcclanuk]

Originally Posted by alferret

What happened to the strike then? We got post today. Mansfield NG18.

It was NOT a nationwide strike. I don't even think HALF the workforce was on strike. If I remember correctly, about 20000 of the staff were striking, and there are something like 150000 employees. I hope I am remembering the numbers correctly lol

As I just got 5 packages all at once I think this strike was a bit of a no show...

Originally Posted by alferret

What happened to the strike then? We got post today. Mansfield NG18.

Got some here today to in NG17, I don't know where the strike was but it defiantly wasn't round here.

[Hom3r]

I have absolutly no sympthy for any of these types who strike ove wages and jobs in the current climate.

I wasn't given a pay rise this year but will be getting a P45 and we weren't even given the option of taking a pay cut.

Sack the lot of them.

[ZrByte]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

I have absolutly no sympthy for any of these types who strike ove wages and jobs in the current climate.

I wasn't given a pay rise this year but will be getting a P45 and we weren't even given the option of taking a pay cut.

Sack the lot of them.

Just because nobody stood up for you doesn't mean we or anybody else for that matter shouldn't stick up for our own.

And for the last time people, this was a mailcentre strike, not a delivery strike. Only roughly 1/5 of each mailcentre was even on the strike so the mail should have made it through as usual, though some things maybe a day or so late (Who would even notice these days).

"though some things maybe a day or so late (Who would even notice these days)." Thats exactly why some here have little sympathy though they don't feel the service is what it used to be or that anyone cares.

[ZrByte]

Originally Posted by RizzyKing

"though some things maybe a day or so late (Who would even notice these days)." Thats exactly why some here have little sympathy though they don't feel the service is what it used to be or that anyone cares.

Well that was kind of my point when I posted it. The only other thing I would point out though is it's not generally the postmans fault. Most of the delays both with delivery times and delivery dates are down to Royal Mails Modernisation & management, which was the whole point in the last series of strikes. Not so much against modernisation, more against royal mails methods of implementing it.
And I think its more than a feeling mate, the service certainly isn't even a shadow of what It used to be. I just think if the public actually blame the people responsible rather than the workers on the front line then we could actually see change in a positive way. At the moment its like going into a supermarket and having a go at the checkout operator because the carpark is untidy or an item is out of stock.

[Derek]

Originally Posted by Nidge

Got some here today to in NG17, I don't know where the strike was but it defiantly wasn't round here.

Maybe the ballot papers or notice of the strike got lost in the mail?