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AngerSharkz, your comment that "they just get one view point" is totally untrue. Sure, we receive communications from the CWU via post and social media but we are also bombarded with communications from Thompson, Macaulay and McPherson via post, our work magazine, email and the Royal Mail Workplace app so all employees have been exposed to propaganda from both sides.

A quote from the song lyrics of one of my favourite bands and written by arguably one of the best three rock drummers in the history of rock music....
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill.
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Freewill.

Rick, the current strike action is about pay only.
115,000 CWU members were balloted.
There was a 77% turnout (88,550 members)
97.6% of the 88,500 members voted yes (86,425 members).
Given that Royal Mail employs around 145,000 employees, those who voted yes account for almost 60% of the entire workforce. Now if you were a candidate standing in a local by-election and received 60% of the vote then you would be very pleased.
The turnout on strike action days has been small and certainly much less than 30% in offices (it was around 5% in my office) but that's not because the workforce that didn't vote or voted against the motion are being somewhat harassed or bullied (Royal Mail have set up a whistleblowers helpline on this plus all staff should have received a communication via their line manager), it's perhaps because they understand the democratic process.
If you take the Brexit vote, there were 46,500,001 eligible votes, 33,577,342 people voted (72.21%) of which 17,410,742 (51.89%) voted to leave. This means that the motion was carried on 39.1% of the eligible votes.
Democracy my boy, democracy.....

Game Boy Advanced?
Or
https://www.gbaservices.com/

I think that you will find that the reason it's all gone quiet is due to the death of our Queen.
Rees-Mogg is probably too busy being fitted out for a new mourning suit and top hat to worry about anything else?

mhudson, "lol , complain to who?"

ceo.office@royalmail.com

mhudson, this is known as fraud.
Have you or did you report this?

JMC66, my comment regarding my postie "wasting his youth" by going to university was a tongue in cheek response to Maximus from earlier in the thread.

Maximus, this is a forum for information share which will hopefully enable the Maximus's of the world to turn a quick buck. You are receiving all the information and help that you could possibly desire. I hope that you will say thank you to the Royal Mail workers.....

Maximus, I can sea that the seperation of GLS meens a grate deal to yew sew I am happy for ewe.
In my opinion, it could be a good thing for RM UK a d force the UK Government and BoD to get their priorities in order regarding the UK postal administration.

Maximus, surely you mean "would from the trees"?

Maximus's comment that "unfortunately to be a postman you don’t need to be that educated,so a lot of workers that carnt do anything else ended up on the mail many years ago" was quite telling.
I would imagine that he has no idea as to the level of qualifications that many posties actually hold. For instance, my postie wasted his youth getting a Desmond at University, however circumstances (and his future wife) led him to working for RM and he has been quite content since joining. For many, it's all about the work/life balance and earning just enough to keep the bailiffs away.
Incidentally, it's "can't"..... A bit like Brian from Playschool.....lol

JB, having spent the '80s, '90s and noughties working sixty plus hours a week in order to buy a house and raise a family as a single income household, I can assure you that there's nothing wrong with my work ethic. I was however interested to know the thoughts of people who have never worked for RM as the general feedback that I'm getting from some posters is that we are all lazy, bone idle, stuck in the '70s militants which as both of us know is clearly not the case.

Maximus, I have read on this forum that posties are nothing more than glorified paper boys and girls. Why would they possibly be self motivated and forward thinking? Surely they just turn up and deliver the items that are on their round, after all that's what they are paid to do?

mhudson, it's a pity that the BoD don't have your vision?

Arsenal, surely the work ethic is driven by the management team? If your managers are lacking then the workforce will exploit this. Sadly, human nature dictates this.

Maximus, armed with your in depth knowledge of RM UK, you must be laughing at those long term holders that have been buying on the way down or have bought in at a much higher price?

mhudson, what do you mean by "needs selling off to compete"? What would you sell off and to whom?

AngerSharkz, admittedly the population of Germany is 20% more than that of the UK and as Maximus put it, DHL is a juggernaut, so why hasn't the RM UK BoD had the vision to make RM the UK juggernaut?
The bod get paid the big bucks to come up with a vision and take the workforce with them but sadly three RM CEOs have failed to do this.

Whilst we are on the subject.... DHL.....
https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2022/august/sainsbury-s-facing-summer-shortages-as-dhl-workers-strike-over-second-class-treatment/