[Update] The Royal Mail strike thread

[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by RizzyKing

Wow and i needed you to tell me how to use a landline...

Glad to be of help

...as clearly it would never have occured to me to do it i love how you assume i havn't rather then thinking that maybe i am so peed off because that option is not available. For any phone call to them i have to quote my reference and can you guess where the reference is in relation to my specific appointment in case you don't it's on the letter they sent me which i still don't have.

No one needs to "make up" problems with this bout of industrial action because it is genuinely causing many people problems still as long as your ok i guess we should all be happy for them to strike.

Well...that's your hospital's fault then and not the Royal Mail workers'. I detest having to quote reference numbers for access to databases, because it is wholly unnecessary. All the hospitals I have ever had contact with, are able to find my details by using my name and address. There is never any need for quoting reference numbers to anyone. The way computer based databases are constructed, allows the user to search for any part of the data, to access a target record. It is called one-to-many mapping and results in a many-to-one or many-to-many basket of data.

Why can't your hospital do that?

I don't know why they cannot maybe it is because it is my first appointment with this doctor and therefore no previous information to go through funnily enough they neglected to go into that on the phone which for the benefit of those who still havn't got it i have used my landline and got nowhere.

I still havn't seen a credible answer for why they have waited so long to strike about issues that were supposedly so urgent for the last TWO YEARS or why it is these strikes seem to happen at weekends rather then mid week ???. Maybe i would have more sympathy for these postal workers if one clear line as to why they are striking was agreed on instead of the different lines from different people all the damn time and also an explanation why some postal workers feel so strongly about it and some don't seem to care and are not having anything to do with these strikes.

So when all that is sorted out then come asking me or anyone else in the public for support because right now it stinks of the same old whingers with the same old agendas that are incapable of moving on and accepting that times and work changes like most of the workforce in this country came to terms with many years ago.

[Turkey Machine]

I have to send a jiffy bag to a friend in the UK. Can I get a confirmation that Royal Mail Special Delivery won't be affected by the strike/sorting business?

Ask at your post office whether or not they have suspended the next-day 1pm guarantee.

[Julian]

We have been told not to guarantee the next day service. Although in reality most Special Deliveries seem to be getting through as they are prioritised.

[ZrByte]

The managers tend to deliver specials on the strike days. In our office they have been cleared every day. The reason they have suspended the guarantee part of the special is so if there is a sudden surge in demand they are not obligated to deliver them.

Originally Posted by Maggy J

I'm more than happy to support postal workers but when the whole thing is over one way or another I hope I will be getting the £197 back in my account after my card was cloned and not be out of pocket because the documents arrived late.This was money that I worked very hard for and I don't see me being reimbursed by you or Royal Mail if I lose out..

I wonder if you could take the Union/Royal Mail to small claims court? I wondered this about expenses I incurred as a result of this STUPID strike.

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I thought Parcel force were a separate entity and not on strike?

[SnoopZ]

The next planned Postal strike has been called off until atleast the New Year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8345423.stm

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

The next planned Postal strike has been called off until at least the New Year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8345423.stm

In other words the CWU know if they keep up what they are doing they will lose what little support they have left. If they were to continue they would have messed up a lot of people's Christmas's and then they would have been finished support wise.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Sirius

In other words the CWU know if they keep up what they are doing they will lose what little support they have left. If they were to continue they would have messed up a lot of people's Christmas's and then they would have been finished support wise.

great news now theres no reason for your xmas card not hitting my welcome mat ..

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

great news now theres no reason for your xmas card not hitting my welcome mat ..

Its on its way m8

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Sirius

Its on its way m8

should be here by February then

unless you posted it second class.

[Turkey Machine]

Originally Posted by Damien

I thought Parcel force were a separate entity and not on strike?

Correct, Parcelforce are completely separate to Royal Mail in the delivery sense, only owned by the same parent company.

Earlier on today when I went to the Post Office, they had indeed suspended the next-day by 1pm guarantee, and weren't giving any part refunds for the no-guarantee either. Since the strike's been suspended, should mean it arrives tomorrow.

[punky]

The next time a postman starts to whinge or wants to strike i'm going to smack him around the head with a large bat.

Twice now they have decided to dump parcels on my doorstep, ring the doorbell and run off. Now I can appreciate that they are too lazy to wait the 30 or so seconds for me to come to the door, or want to finish their round as quick as possible so they can go home. Its nice for them, but not so nice for me who sometimes has to venture outside and then has to go through a lengthy battle to get replacements sent out (IF it is insured), and not so nice for the people whose Christmas presents now belong to a passing thief.

I could complain of course, but then all my mail (well, all except the junk mail) would then be redirected to the large bin adjacent to the sorting office.

Please, if you are a postman reading this and really don't want to do your job properly, please move aside and let someone through who does want to do it.

Yep i am in the process of reordering something because a postman couldn't be bothered to wait for me to sign for it so left it on my front doorstep on a main road and now they are not sure if they will get stock back in for xmas so yeah thanks a million off me as well. Rang the local sorting office to complain and got "oh well it's that time of year" what there is now a time of year when it's ok not to do your job properly guess someone forgot to tell the rest of the country .