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I’ve just asked one of my old workmates; he’s not accepting it.

Happy days Les, enjoy. And the Gooners are STILL top of the league, what a present for you! But it pains me to say Man ****ty will overtake you soon.

Hm, weekly post: it’d work for me. So if we usually get say, 7 items of mail a week (some people get far more) you’d propose it all getting delivered on one day per week? It’s a shame the general public aren’t allowed to visit a delivery office to see exactly how many letters posties have to deliver as this idea would be almost impossible to occur.

teslo@ when I was working (retired 2018) most of the posties weren’t interested in the shares and it’s price. They used to laugh when the price fell. I told them all to fill their boots at the IPO but only myself and the Dom bought the full amount:3030 shares. Afterwards a few did do the sharesave scheme. Generally in my view posties don’t understand the importance of the share price. I keep in touch with an old colleague and when I tell him if Kretinsky takes over they’ll all be in trouble he just laughs it off.

DenFos, with respect, have you ever done the job? I did it for 27 years and it got progressively harder. There’s no time to chat with customers any more, there’s so many items that have to be scanned. Give it a try, if you can, maybe ask your own postie could you tag along with him one day.

I’m suddenly seeing lots of ads on here. How do I get rid?

Daccord what’s your post to do with the original message? It should have a separate heading. And also what has your message to do with Eurasia Mining? Don’t bother answering as you’re going straight in the green bin with all the other numpties.

Who knows but I think of Ian Duncan Smith when I hear IDS!

Hi Red. Yes there’ll probably be some big changes soon. I’ve taken part in earlier disputes mainly because I never used to worry about money (and crossing any picket lines would have alienated me even more with my fellow posties. I did drive expensive cars and wore a Rolex to work etc) and not getting paid for not working seemed fair to me. But ultimately striking didn’t help anyone and seemed pointless to me.

Royal Mail did change its name a few years ago to Consignia. Lasted about 6 months before they changed it back. This new name is equally ridiculous. I’m glad I’m retired.

Ah, a civilised chat board…..

@teslo, it USED to be money for old rope at RM. I remember once getting 6 hours overtime for doing three 2nd deliveries that took me 2 hours. We used to get 4 hours overtime for delivering half a walk, then our manager suddenly decided he was only going to pay 2 and a half hours. That was when I stopped doing overtime. It’s definitely not as easy as it used to be and I’ve been retired for 4 years.

Eh?

Well said Aspenwood.

Haha! I do wonder what she sees in me. I pinch myself every morning to make sure I’m not dreaming and I’m not still delivering crap in north Manchester. Her income makes my mind boggle; her bonus this year was £16k ( I do tell her we used to get £200 at Xmas).

Hi Red. My legal eagle is still here. She’s bought (me) a bungalow here now. I’m still a kept man. Not interested in getting another Porsche, I’m more into riding my bike. Only got my original 3030 RM shares (the maximum we were guaranteed to buy at the outset) left.

Dowsie, your grammar is shocking! You can’t complain about someone else’s spelling when you can’t write a proper sentence.

I used to be a postman (as my moniker implies and did have a few Porsches; but that’s another story) and management started saying letters were reducing from around 2010 I think. We were all puzzled my these statements as there were still tons of letters coming through. Packets started increasing around 2015 with almost all items with barcodes (meaning little farty ones from China) needing scanning at the point of delivery. I was lucky enough to retire just before Xmas 2018 as I really didn’t fancy another festive period delivering (well, attempting as the recipients were almost never in, which became very frustrating) post. As regards to the current dispute in the past management always gave in and settled but in this case I’m not sure.

That’s 2 in my green bin so far this morning. The same person maybe?

Yes, Barrett, it makes you wonder if there’s a group who decide they’ll have a run on a particular share ( EUA this time). I do wish they’d tell us when it’s going to happen so we can play too.