Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
Not many doing the same by the looks of it. Ezj going up, TUI going down. Only matter of time before TUI catches up though.
Anger , but what genre will it be ? Mystery, comedy, horror or all three LOL.
Misheard? The chair said tracking device known as a PVA. Don't you think Simon should have said sorry, did you mean a PDA? Which sound almost the same. This CEO is a joke.
Performance and outlook
Posties not poties lol . Bloody phone.
Hopefully,anger, you can now see the sort of boss we're up against as posties. We're not all lazy and wanting more money. We just don't trust or want this twonk of a 'leader' leading our jobs into a gig economy style of job and hopefully now you can see that you can't trust a word he says. Not sure how its all going to spin out but a good start would be replacing the muppit for someone who can work with us and the Union for the good of the business, poties and shareholders. Thompson does none of the above.
Spot on isleworth. The only way these 'revisions' stand a chance of working is if they don't have to be all delivered every day. I'm on a hybrid rural who does about an hrs worth of LAT's when I get back to the office. The van share in a neighbouring village worked to time yesterday, the manager put their one hr they left onto me instead of my pkts. In the coming revision I'm told the same van share pairing will be getting half my rural delivery put into their duty. That's about 1hr 45min of just van delivery (farms and firms) . So in conclusion, yesterday I took 1 hr off them (30 min each) and in the revision they'll be doing that plus 1hr45 (approximately 50 mins for each) although that will involve the walker doing 2 loops while the driver does the farms. Which means they'll be consistently 1 hr 20 over and yesterday wasn't that busy. My duty is going btw. They really are clueless.
Normally with good results, things tend to go down. Hope not.
Possibly true, apart from the donuts bit. Our vans are all fwd as far as I know. Pretty hard to do donuts in a fwd van, especially one without the power needed to pull the skin off a rice pudding.
Anger, you're surprisingly ill informed of what we have and have not been offered. By the way we were never 'offered' 2% . It was brought in by EA , like it or lump it, that's all you are getting. Why would it be prudent to hand out what would amount to £1000 per postie, in a dividend on 6th September 22 when the finances of the company were so bad (loosing £1m a day)? Oh yeah, it wouldn't, even if it were from profits from the previous year. If you earned £50k last yr but lost your job this yr, would you still carry on spending the same because you earned it last yr?
Anger, I'm aware that no Divi this yr however, 13.3p/share was paid out on 6th September , half way through a yr that they gave us 2% pay rise as they couldn't afford any more. As well as payments to managers for coming in during strikes and also settling the managers dispute with a rise.
Anger. But there's money to pay a dividend and managers bonusses?
They do employ 10x more people worldwide than Royal Mail though. Unlike Royal Mail, they hired the staff to cope with increased demand during the covid boom. They don't need them now. As is RM usual policy, we muddled on mostly coping on overtime or leaving walks undelivered therefore have less or no scope to loose jobs.
Islesworth. Absolutely not, most are claiming extended most days. I'm baffled too. We had a lot of agency doing pkts before Xmas. Office wasn't stacked up although most were doing one side one day other side the other. Leaving a lot of oversized to the agency. I did notice a xmas card date stamped 6/12 today so maybe there is a stack of mail somewhere in the North of England that hasn't been sorted yet. Was bit more normal today but still quite light letters and pkts. I'm as baffled as you.
Totally clear. Everyone been finished well early last two days.
We were a good 40% down yesterday, maybe that's what they're talking about. On one day a yr we're 40% down so we'll set that as our model day lol. Seriously though yesterday was the lightest day I have seen for a very very long time. I missed out entire sections where I always have mail! Don't know where the heck they're hiding it all.
Redceo, yeah it's always good to have a mix on these chats but when someone who's never done the job calls all posties lazy, something has got to be said.
I agree that change has to happen but the way the current management are railroading it in without even consultation of the people who do the job is ridiculous. We have seen over the years many ideas they come up with that simply don't work and had they actually asks the people in the job, we would have told them and thus avoided wasting money. For example, had we keep bikes for delivery and gradually increased pkt driver deliveries we would have been so much more efficient and it's something that they are actually back tracking on now, increasing pkt delivery drivers. How efficient is two in a van share? I'll tell you. You always end up working to the slowest of the pairs pace. When we were all on bikes obviously you worked to your own pace. 12 yrs of excessive vans damaging our top line and the environment. The cost of our fleet is immense compared to when we had bikes, as well as the cost to our joints walking 10+miles a day now. Our current business model with the USO is now broken, we cannot compete with it around our ankles like a ball and chain when parcel delivery companies run free of this obligation. Yes maybe many older posties are stuck in the past but we just want treating with dignity and respect, something the current crop of RM management by and large do not do. No idea how this is all going to play out.
Dilly. It's surprising that all the experts like you have never done a day's work as a postie, or even have a grasp of how the whole business operates.
You underestimate the CWU. They will not settle without a big compromise from RM. That doesn't look likely. The will re ballot again. Whether there's an appetite for striking still from the workers is another matter. The CWU will definitely not agree to any 'deal' Simon has put on the table so far, that I can guarantee. You can screenshot that one too.
The year is not ending well! How much longer till travel becomes investable again? Really thought we were back on the right road couple of months ago.