View Full Version : UK postal strikes may continue
HellCat
08-02-2007, 07:29 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6926790.stm
For a range of reasons, I find it hard to support this. Nothing against workers standing up for their rights but from alot of first hand exeprience I know Royal Mail workers can be extremely fickle.
Conan-san
08-03-2007, 02:51 AM
I have no sympathy. I have a NHS low income application in the mail and I'm sure that I won't get it before I get my new fillings, leaving me £26 short (and as a student, damn that smarts).
Frank Castle
08-03-2007, 03:10 AM
They really should take a cue from U.S. postal workers and just shoot up a McDonald's to solve their problems because that worked so well...oh wait no it didn't.:D
Conan-san
08-03-2007, 03:14 AM
They really should take a cue from U.S. postal workers and just shoot up a McDonald's to solve their problems because that worked so well...oh wait no it didn't.:DIf a half ass (now dead) terrorist and his doctor chort got the seven bells knocked out of them when they tried something, what makes you think we wouldn't kick the seven bells out of a postal worker?
Frank Castle
08-03-2007, 03:20 AM
If a half ass (now dead) terrorist and his doctor chort got the seven bells knocked out of them when they tried something, what makes you think we wouldn't kick the seven bells out of a postal worker?
Seven balls? What are you guys putting in your water across the ocean? Anywho, physical abnormalities aside, I'm not doubting that you guys wouldn't take too kindly to a murderous postal worker, but you push these guys too far and something will happen no matter how safe you think things may be.
Conan-san
08-03-2007, 03:39 AM
Seven balls? What are you guys putting in your water across the ocean? Anywho, physical abnormalities aside, I'm not doubting that you guys wouldn't take too kindly to a murderous postal worker, but you push these guys too far and something will happen no matter how safe you think things may be.I said bells, it's a euphimisum for the term kicking the seven shades of [excriment] out of someone. In otherwords, to give them a thrashing of a lifetime.
Frank Castle
08-03-2007, 03:44 AM
Oh that's good to know. Do you know why there's 7 bells or shades? Certainly 1 or 2 could probably be enough. But to stay on topic, getting the mail everyday rocks. Except junk mail, that's just crap.
HellCat
08-03-2007, 04:49 AM
Getting the backlog cleared up will probably be hell. I've been waiting for 4 parcels in the middle of this and I finally received one of them...the last, sent out a week after the others.
Do they expect public support for this? The whole thing seems to rely on holding the company to ransom.
Conan-san
08-03-2007, 08:04 AM
Do they expect public support for this? The whole thing seems to rely on holding the company to ransom.realy, the royal mail is another one of those things, like the bbfc which is a decent Idea mared by a mix of stupidity and strong-arming.
I got peed with them during the last strike in July.
*sigh*
I have a parcel from amazon that i hoped would arrive before i left for my holiday on Monday (yes you guys wont have to put up with me for a week)
I hope it finally comes tomorrow, cus if i know my dad he will open it up even though its in my name :shrug:
We've had problems with it at work - having a client constantly ringing up to ask you where his cheque is gets tiresome after a while.
It's not as if the Post Office even offers a good service. At home, we sometimes don't get our post until the middle of the afternoon. Very irritating.
HellCat
08-03-2007, 07:09 PM
Our post usually comes early morning. Parcels are usually dropped over the back gate. Works out pretty well, especially since if you're waiting for something it's nice to know before you go out rather then spend all day wondering.
I hope this backlog gets cleared properly. About 2 months ago a parcel I was waiting on got lost (2 rare Gundam kits I bought on eBay). I'd hate for that to happen with anything else I'm waiting on.
Conan-san
08-04-2007, 04:21 AM
Typicaly, ours shows up about miday. Though once exam result season rolls by, you'd be lucky to get it before 2pm.
Frozen
08-04-2007, 07:12 PM
We've had postal strikes? I honestly hadn't noticed. The Post Office service is that bad these days I couldn't tell the difference... :confused:
HellCat
08-04-2007, 07:17 PM
We've had postal strikes? I honestly hadn't noticed. The Post Office service is that bad these days I couldn't tell the difference... :confused:
Oho!
Jon T
08-05-2007, 09:43 AM
I hope this backlog gets cleared properly. About 2 months ago a parcel I was waiting on got lost (2 rare Gundam kits I bought on eBay). I'd hate for that to happen with anything else I'm waiting on.
I'm in more or less exactly the same position with stuff specifically bought off eBay. One parcel was MIA for two months (I like to give things a chance!) before I finally asked the seller for a refund. He willingly refunded me, but subsequently told me the parcel had actually been returned back to him in the US. The most annoying part, is that it actually had UK stampings on it, so it actually made it over here, before the incompetence of the UK system got it returned to the US! :(
Now I'm in yet another similar position with an eBay package containing no less than 5 DVDs missing for (again) nearly 2 months. Next week I'll simply ask yet another seller for a refund, but I'm 90% sure it'll turn out that that parcel also made it over here, where it also seemingly hit a rubber wall. It doesn't take too many skills to sort out letters and parcels, so that's probably why the Post Office management isn't caving in. They'll simply recruit new, possibly more competent, people.
Given what the current service has been like in recent months, quite a lot of the current staff obviously don't deserve to be paid at all!
HellCat
08-05-2007, 09:58 AM
I actually had similar happen a while ago. An Australian based seller who helped me by tracking down some figurines from Japan. After she mailed it, they returned it. She let me know and sent it out again and it got through fine. Ugh :shrug:
Jon T
10-04-2007, 07:44 AM
Bumped for the new 48-hour postal strikes starting today from noon and again on Monday, effectively stopping most mail until next Thursday! Surely any sympathy they might have courted has gone by now - lots of businesses are going to be hit quite hard by this.
Not to mention all the DVDs and collectibles that I and no doubt many others here have ordered that are going to be held up by this bunch of jokers! The day their anachronistic union comes to their senses, the better it will be for everyone - so many postage strikes for so long is simply bad for the country.
HellCat
10-04-2007, 08:00 AM
Huh. I wonder if a certain something will have come today.
I agree, I don't think they're going to get much if any support from the public. Have they even done anything to try and get support from them? The whole fact they have to bribe their employees with giveaways just to keep them focussed doesn't get much sympathy from me.
Conan-san
10-07-2007, 05:28 PM
I sence some opotuinsitc Strike-line breaking in my future if this keeps up.
If I don't get my damn mail, i'll take thier damn jobs.
HellCat
10-07-2007, 05:32 PM
I think they're running out of options. Very little of the population support either the workers or the post office. The workers are coming very close to losing their jobs now. At the same time, Royal Mail can't really risk losing so many workers. This isn't like when the firefighters went on strike. They had a very valid argument. If you've ever seen those documentaries Channel 4 made or been related to one, you'll know the postmen are mostly lazy buggers.
Conan-san
10-08-2007, 04:22 AM
I think they're running out of options. Very little of the population support either the workers or the post office. The workers are coming very close to losing their jobs now. At the same time, Royal Mail can't really risk losing so many workers. This isn't like when the firefighters went on strike. They had a very valid argument. If you've ever seen those documentaries Channel 4 made or been related to one, you'll know the postmen are mostly lazy buggers.Yep, I'ma gonna charge mah job sniping lazor.
HellCat
10-12-2007, 10:05 AM
I'm pretty annoyed. Three days back and none of the parcels I've been waiting on have arrived. This especially annoys me because on the first day back my sister received about 5 different things from the shopping channel. With further strikes coming, they'd bloody better arrive tomorrow.
Same here. Plenty of things still havent came yet which shipped before or during the strike (in the case of during it was the first day or so)
With these cretins apprantly delaying my owning of Spider-Man 3 on DVD, not to mention the ridicolous amount of post I'll have waiting for me on Monday, I'm glad the relevant laymakers decided that there strike won't be happening on Monday and Tuesday.
I still can't believe the cheek of the postal workers - they've caused mass amounts of inconvineance and want higher wages for providing a pretty lously service? Honestly.
If they do get thier bigger pay packets, I honestly hope that the system is improved - being rewardeded for laziness and taking a few unscheduled days off doesn't seem like a fair trade.
HellCat
10-13-2007, 05:05 AM
The only sympathetic part I've heard is that apparently Royal Mail are trying to bump another 5 years of service on their retirement age. In general though, they really don't have a leg to stand on.
Like last time, I got a parcel today...the last one that was sent out. That means a DVD and some models (2 of which they'll never produce again) are still trapped :sad:
Harvey Two Face
10-13-2007, 06:39 AM
Posties shouldn't be allowed to strike because they're holding up a very important national service.
HellCat
10-13-2007, 06:45 AM
Posties shouldn't be allowed to strike because they're holding up a very important national service.
Now there's the rub. I believe just about any worker has the right to strike because if you believe conditions are terrible you deserve a noticed voice. Problem is when folks strike for petty reasons.
Conan-san
10-13-2007, 07:07 AM
I'd say the Royal Mail should be pulled into the 21st Centruy by it's nose and to hell with it's complaints.
HellCat
10-17-2007, 05:31 AM
My sister got a letter this morning dated 30th September.....I'm suddenly scared.
Conan-san
10-17-2007, 08:57 AM
By the nose, people BYTHE FRICKIN' NOSE!
Whilst we're at it, we shold punch the BBFC into the 21'st century too.
HellCat
10-17-2007, 10:28 AM
Supposedly they're getting a pay rise. It's been a few years but last I heard they don't exactly make bad money anyway. I'm worried this will start a trend, them doing a crap job and yet getting paid more and more.
To be fair, our local postie is a nice guy.
Everyone can relax, my Spider-Man 3 DVD arrived yesterday!
I got cut under the nail opening the package though. Coincidence? I think not.
Everyone can relax, my Spider-Man 3 DVD arrived yesterday!
Mine hasnt :(
Despite shipping before Shaun of the Dead (HD DVD), which came on Monday.
:confused:
HellCat
10-20-2007, 04:58 AM
No parcels make HC....something something....
Juu-kuchi
10-20-2007, 02:59 PM
No parcels make HC....something something.... Surly?
HellCat
10-21-2007, 09:12 AM
In my area at least they seem to be getting the letters out of the way first. Except for the parcel which arrived last Saturday (which was probably perfectly timed to arrive in the country just as they started back), it's been letters only all week. Hopefully they'll be good news tomorrow onwards.
Alucard
10-23-2007, 05:42 PM
Ordered a Vampire Hunter D book from a UK distributor during the Postal Strikes.... And It still hasn't arrived:mad:
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