Postal Letter - do you support the postal workers strike?

do you support the postal workers strike?

they are fighting to save their jobs,pensions.closures.

Public Comments

no they get a damn good wage full time wage for part time hours!!!
Everyone as a right to fight for what they beleive in right or wrong!
Yes I do. They work bloody hard, unsociable hours etc and anyway, I'm not getting any bills and I'm loving it.
Seems stupid to me ! Private industry trying to take their customers away - and they strike !! madness.
no i think they should get back to work get the backlog sorted
yes i do agree, the reason royal mail are trying to skim money off their workers is because they are selling up soon and it will look good for the prospective buyers if the overheads for the new owners is low and will have more chance of a quicker sale
no i want my post,lazy workers
I think when each industry had very little competition a strike was quite effective, these days when there is always some company waiting to take on you customers then a strike is cutting your own throats. Unfortunately all companies have to make profit and streamline operations - that's what technology brings about - facing up to the inevitable of reduction in staff and different timetables (and being around a table to help these changing come into practice as smoothly as possible) is the way forward. As a consumer who is being inconvenienced I am happy to look elsewhere.
Of course i agree. You would all do the same in their shoes. They are not striking for the good of their health.
No, a strike can cause harm to other people who has nothing to do with them. They could do the other kind of strike, that one people work like mad until everything is done so their bosses have to pay them for doing nothing, but no, they prefer the easy (and lazy way)
yes the national average wage is 24000 a year the average postal worker wage is 17000 ive been a postman during holidays - getting up in the middle of the night, 6 nights a week, is no picnic neither is delivering mail in rain or in winter when you cant feel your fingers they deserve higher wages
no my business is going down the pan as i cant send nor get parcels they dont care about me why should i about them,. sack the lot get the unemplyed working there
Yes.
the way things are going we wont have a postal service they keep putting up the price so i think they should get this sorted out with out a strike as they soon wont have jobs to go to the private sector will take over
Not really to be honest.I can understand when fireman and nurses strike for better pay conditions,pensions etc,they save lives and work extremely long hours.Postmen work part time hours for full time wages,don't deliver my mail(half the time it ends up in my neighbours letter box even when the address on the envelope clearly states my house number) and I don't get my post until lunchtime.The rest of the time their on strike,I'm thinking of becoming a postlady. Edit:Hyacynth Bucket.....if things are that bad working as a postman why the hell does your other half not look for a new job. My partner works long hours for not great wages but I don't see him going on strike or sitting on here moaning about it.
I dont know enough about it to take a side to be honest.
Are you familiar with some continental services.Your nearest town would be the point,and an office within that town would be your collection office.You are given a box and pin number and the mail is put in these boxe,s for you to collect.Its up to you how many times you collect.Now that rural bus services are so good,it helps Letter confirmation for hospital appointments will be taken over by a two phone ring system ,so at least your told twice by two different people,no excuse not to go then.Aged or disabled people will have a private company or companies vieing for the delivery of your mail,and its up to you how many times you want mail a year.The good neibour scheme is used in a lot of continental spots and works well One pleased not to get up at 3.45 and face dogs cats ferrets and some very nasty pieces of work postman Best of luck incidentally,nearly always started at midnight,sickness etc got an ambulance for a aged lady with a weak cry of help heard at letter box,opened one box and smoke bellowed out,went in and got the old man out and then went back and got his dog for him,still hm Just noticed the bit about mail in different doors,we used to look at the name and know it was number--but we had to put it in the house number it said,even though we new it was wrong the law
No! They should get back to work. They need no qualifications to become Postmen, just the ability to read and write (and that's questionable at times) and walk whilst carrying a post bag. They don't even do their job efficiently at present!
Not this time I don't.... the repercussions for small businesses that rely on the Royal Mail are enormous, there are other ways of ensuring you get a fair deal and they don't involve making the general public suffer.... A huge amount of people are fighting their individual causes with their employers, but they aren't holding their companies or the public in a blackmail situation. What they fail to understand is that Royal Mail managers are also affected by the pension scheme etc....the post office closures are a direct result of a failing company and if their jobs are at risk then had they been working at full productivity levels the Royal Mail wouldn't be in the dire situation they now find themselves in.... My company have relied on and been let down by the postal workers once to often and we will be using alternatives in future. I say let them privatise the Royal Mail and let the workers see what it's like working in the real world of business!
No, the post, along with other industries must streamline. Thousands of other places have had to,why should these people be an exception.Other workers have unfortunately lost their jobs due to closures of the branches of companies that they had worked for for many years. Postal workers have been cossetted for many years, they have had far more paid leave than other workers. They have enjoyed far better sick leave arrangements, 6 months sick leave on full pay,then 6 months on half pay. The C.W.U. are trying to con us the public that their members have been badly put to. Things have gone down hill with this lot since they ceased to be "The Royal Mail ". In the days when postmen were crown employees people had respect for "their" post man, mail delivered twice a day in all weathers, 3 pickups per day from postboxes.Respect from customers in return for respect from the postman. Those were the days when the post office gave a service,now you're lucky if they can be bothered delivering within a week. I have no sympathy from these pampered employees, They should be dismissed for breach of contract. The postal service should be privatised with restrictions on price and guarantees of prompt delivery, then we may get the service and promptness that we have been denied for so long !
YES I DO They get average of £17,000 a year and the national average is £24,000
Yes.
well its screwing me up i sell on ebay and i just cant post anything its terrible.
To a certain extent. But having no point for 4/5 days in a row is ridiculous.
has the post office lost a lot of postage due to emails and cant afford to pay more maybe it is a dying trade being replaced by modern tech
jack2007,what planet are you on?a dam good wage?do you work for royal mail?well my hubby does,he gets up at 4am snow,rain,hail,thunder...he finishes at 4pm,yes 4pm....he has rent to pay bills to pay,3 young kids to keep in clothes and food petrol for the car to get to WORK,council tax,and all other bills that comes with the home and family,he gets £200 per week.....STILL A GOOD WAGE FOR PART TIME HOURS?EH?12 hour shifts are not part time hours are they?so get your effin facts right you know nothing
full support from me, I was on the picket line tonight. no sign of union officials just the staff from the mail centre. here's hoping Crozier, Leighton and co buck up their ideas before they leave in December and broker a decent deal with the cwu which gives the industry some hope for the future.
They have mu full support having been a postie. How a 60 hour week which is what many of them actually work is part time hours i don't know . As for the pay 17,000 a year is well below the average. If you want to look at whos to blame look no further the leighton and crozier not the people that are trying to save the industry from these people. If a few more people stood up for themsleves instead of moaning and doing nothing maybe thsi country would be in the mess its in.
yes i do ,they are on the front line for all public service workers on crap wages with know sign of pay rise ,inflation at 5%,wage rise 2% says it all really.how can MP's awared themselve big pay rises and tell everybody else not to have one, good luck to all posties in your strike