Postal Letter

How would you resolve the post Strikes?

My suggestion is to sack all the strikers and employ some of the millions who are on the dole. Their spokesperson said the strikes are about saving the postal service, however if he were to tell the truth instead of lie he would say the reason for the strike is that postal workers who are employed for eight hours, being paid for eight hours, are being asked by their employers to work eight hours. How outrageous asking people to work the hours they are paid for. The truth of it all is that the strikers will ensure that when the Conservatives take power the postal service will be privatised and that will be good news for every hard working person who are currently suffering bad postal services but very bad news for the dinosaurs.. Bruce M, pushing letters through letter boxes seems a very easy way to earn a living, although given that all that Royal Mail want you to do is the eight hours you are paid for, I guess the job must be easier than I thought. Jory I think you may have the answer. Ss I say cant wait for it to be privatised, then they will have to work their eight hours, not knock of early and do another job. elmbeard, the will be able to force out the current management when its privatised, although then half of them will loose the cushy job they now have Derek B you say half of them do overtime, it would help if they worked the hours they were paid for, there would be no need for overtime then, still I guess that would be too much to ask.

Public Comments

1. The unions are still in cloud cuckoo land. Labour have to give in eventually though, or risk losing the funds they depend on
2. yes good idea lets go back about 50 years and sack legal strikers. hate to tell you mate but most people who start with royal mail these days soon get their eyes open to just what they are expected to do by bullying incompetent management. they last about 3 days. go do the job yourself then perhaps people like me will respect your opinion. many many good non radical workers in royal mail are now prepared to strike. what does that tell you about this company. the yes vote for strike action will be overwhelming. most in this country don't want to work mate, or do you know different so not much chance of them doing this job. over the years i have seen them all. hey i just have to put mail in a mail box easy. most as i say leave within days or have to turn up in court for dumping the mail.
3. Royal mail hires too many immigrants and they can't be trusted, i know theres a lot of native post men/women that can't be trusted either but i'm talking about the majority of the immigrant workforce here. Yeah sack all the native workers and give the jobs to natives who are willing to work. Theres nothing i hate the sight of more than a immigrant postal worker. We've 3 work my estate, i've yet to get my post because the twats can't read or work out odd from even. Its a job i would jump at, but unfortunately i'm too white and too Irish to qualify.
4. Well you could do that but then you'd lose billions in court cases and pay offs, not to mention benefit payments. Postal workers do the overtime as its the only way they can subsidise their earnings and support their families; here's a thought their employers could pay them a decent basic wage and then they wouldn't need the ot pay. P.s. the postal service has already been largely privatised which is why the service has become so bad.
5. Why not put them in the stocks.....or we could bring back workhouses......or slavery, then we wouldn't have to pay them at all. After all, every single one of them is a workshy, benefit cheating, alcoholic junkie. Let's build fences around their council house estates and only let them out to do a hard days work. Its 2009! We're not in this recession because of the postal workers. Wake up.
6. Privatise the entire postal service !!
7. A couple of years ago, I put my elderly mother on Post Office HomePhone. Recently, she moved to the upstairs flat and needed her phone line transferred, and gave her a date several days after the move when the engineer would turn up. On the date, nobody did, and my mother was stranded upstairs without a phone. When I tried to ring the Customer Care Line, after an hour of a machine voice apologising for not answering, I got though to an operative who refused to discuss my mother's plight with me. He said that as a Post Office customer myself, I ought to know about the Data Protection Act, and that my mother ought to ring in herself - he even said that they would not charge for the 0845 call if she rang from her Post Office phone. Well, if this is how they treat their customers, we can only guess how they treat their staff! I worked as a postman in the early 1980s when it was still a public service, but going back to visit my former colleagues, I was appalled how americanized the whole place had become in the meantime. They simply do not care, as long as the executives get their bonuses. The problem with working hours set in when they cancelled the second delivery. This meant that there was not enough to do after the first to justify a full working day. This meant either part-time unsocial hours, or split shifts with all the extra cost and time of getting to and from work twice in a day. I do not believe anyone has worked this through adequately. The answer would be surely to diversify and give posties other work to fill their time. This however is anathema to modern management practice, which likes to compartmentalise everything ready for floating on the market place. Modern managers care only about their bonuses and nothing for either their staff or their customers. So my sympathy goes out the strikers if somehow they could force current management out or replace them with those with a better attitude that might actually save the business.
8. I totally agree with you. Our postman is so incompetent that the neighbours are passing mail between each other as never a day goes by without him putting something through the wrong door. He wouldn't last 2 minutes in a private company.