Royal Mails Strikes again!

[Watson]

Royal Mail should cancel services they cannot fulfill during the strike days, not continue to take money and not provide.

First class mail at the moment is no longer first class, it's forth class or longer!

 

[Harrison]

It's up to the customer when they post their mail. They are aware in advance of the strike days so they have the knowledge that their post might be delayed.

Problem is there is no easy time for customers to go on strike. But in reality the best time is when it causes thy most disruption because everyone notices. When the first stikes took place in October no one noticed.

 

[Harrison]

very similar situation in germany. but, as understandable your frustration is, make sure it hits the right ones. from my experience, when workers strike, which is a last resort of the unions and it needs very high consent vote (around 90%) of the people in the union, the big companies are to blame.

The RMT union menbers voted 97% in favour so it has near total support.

 

[Harrison]

I hope this works out well for you and all the other workers Harrison. You don't want it to become like Australia Post. Delivery drivers here often pre-fill a set portion of the "sorry we missed you" cards and leave the parcels at the depot because they can't possibly complete each delivery in the allotted time. And of course they are not actually employed by Australia Post, the contract just gets given to whoever bids the lowest. Post offices are usually privately held and while they must sell the AP range of services they will also stuff the store full of $2 shop garbage and can never find the parcel once you go in to pick it up. We're very lucky our current driver is a good one.

This is exactly thy way the CEO and top bosses of Eoyal Mail want to head. They want to get rid of Royal Mail staff delivering mail as postmen, and replace them with self employed owner drivers. So the level of service and care would far dramatically.

I just don't get how a company can place profit ahead of customer service. With parcel deliveries that's exactly what people want and they want their regular daily postman that they know.

It's so sad to see Royal Mail being treated like this by it's current CEO. The company is the oldest postal service in the world and is 506 years old and was a proud state owner company until recently.

The Royal Mail is already split into different parts. With the Post Office business separate to the Royal Mail deliveries. Post Offices are franchised and many are now just at the end of a convinence store and run by the shop owner.

It is sad to see such a great company slowly being irroded away and destroyed.

 

[StrongARM]

Most likely...

 

[miggymad]

What’s the difference between Royal Mail and the post office? Does Royal Mail own the post office?

The Post Office is owned by the UK government, and operates the 11,500 post offices around the UK. Royal Mail is owned by private shareholders, and runs the collection, sorting and delivery of post.

It is difficult for Post Offices to make a profit - so with Royal Mail in public hands, it was able to reinvest profits into making sure the places you go to buy stamps are well staffed and equipped. The decision to separate the two in 1986 has now resulted in huge pressure on Post Offices, meaning longer queues for us all at Christmas, while Royal Mail profits are syphoned out in dividends to private individuals.

Royal Mail is owned by private investors. Daniel Křetínský, a Czech billionaire, has the biggest share - 25% of the company is controlled by his Vesa Equity Investment group. In the last year alone, investors have been paid £400 million in dividends.

 

[StrongARM]

Investment Groups - nothing better than cockroaches.

 

[miggymad]

Investment Groups - nothing better than cockroaches.

Although I agree with the sentiment, let's remember that in comparison cockroaches are a higher form of life

 

[StrongARM]

correct... replace it with jerks.