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I've not seen anything recently from the CWU suggesting they want letter writing promoted, anybody who works on the frontlines can see for themselves that letters are decreasing in number but small packets and parcels are taking their places.
The chairs latest suggestion is that the CWU are refusing to work past 4pm on H&S grounds, however, all their are questioning is whether it's safe for lone woman to be delivering mail on foot in the dark, as parcel deliveries are already taking place in the dark, with the CWU approval.
£400,000,000 + £400M, where are you getting that figure from given that specials and tracked parcels would still have to be delivered on a Saturday?
I started at 6:30 today and was out of the delivery office at just gone 8:30 after prepping two rounds on what is a quiet summer Saturday, 2hrs 30 mins seems reasonable for peak. It's hard to believe senior management aren't aware of that given it's happening in 100's of delivery offices across the UK on a daily basis.
The latest is that senior management have now taken on our concerns and are going to discuss it further with the CWU
It's slightly disrespectful suggesting RM employees are lemmings when 97.5% of them have voted for IA, as matters stand if all the proposals are implemented staff will have to leave anyway, do it comes down to leave voluntary or be made redundant and receive a reasonable pay off, with so may disgruntled long serving staff playing the redundancy card doesn't seem the wisest move.
I guess you missed the part where the CEO suggested he's wants his staff to work Sunday's as they are twice as efficient as temp staff?
Also where are RM going to find all these agency staff from, the final nail in that argument is that they are presently paid more per hour than RM staff!!
If RM are incurring worryingly high losses then why are they spend £m's on a pointless uniform update, I can't recall many staff complaining about the old uniform, and also on moving most of the fleet to electric vans, when the likes of Amazon are still purchasing ICE vans?
They already have done it but what's the betting they are given the easiest walk in the office on a nice quiet day, with only 1 day's mail?
or make it has hard as possible if they realised that it would lead to 10K redundancies who would most likely join the dole queue given their age? I do wonder if any genuine customer i.e. those not hand picked by RM, does suggest that they don't want a mail delivery on Saturday, but they do on Monday, Tuesday etc.
"green" is the reason being given but as only 6% of post is apparently moved by air, then it seems more likely Royal Mail just want to move the mail deliveries to later in the day, so that it can be delivered with the "next day" parcels as they usually arrive mid morning, rather than send them out on separate delivery runs.
Perhaps as mail drops and parcels increase in years to come that may make sense but I can't see it does at present. No other company would try and deliver letters to addresses in the dark, or, probably, 30C temperatures in mid afternoons.
If post won't be arriving until 9am in the future then how do you anticipate deliveries will also be starting at 9am? It takes roughly 2 hours to sort the post and load the van/trolley, so the earliest rounds will start is 11am, I wonder what businessess who've always had their post delivered by mid morning will think when it arrives mid afternoon, just when their own postal staff are finishing for the day.
The worse aspect is that on peak days posties could be expected to be out delivering mail until late in the evening, when most businesses are closed anyway.
Posties generally feel angry the way they are being treated by RM, it seems they've taken a lead from PO Ferries!
Out of interest have you ever tried walking 20K+ a day whilst pushing a trolley loaded with post? I've not come across one "stiff" postman/woman.
Let's hope they are fully trained and not like the agency staff PO Ferries employed! It'll be interesting to see if the agency staff are brace enough to break the picket lines
Amazon have a constant stream of new recruits doing the sorting (I'm not sure what happens if they ever run out as the supply can't be that large?) who are paid the minimum wage and probably have minimal sickness benefits etc, RMG have experience posties doing the sorting before they start their rounds, not sure about efficiency but it's easy to see which is the cheaper option.
I'm assuming there's so few unrepresented cases as in the past it was easy to just instruct a solicitor to pursue a claim even if you weren't injured, it's slightly different now if you have to do all the paperwork yourself knowing all the you are doing it you are pursuing a fraudulent claim or, if you have suffered a minor whiplash injury, it's simply not now worth all the effort for just a few hundred pounds. Although I can't see the general public being too impressed if they past on the savings to their shareholders rather than their policyholders.
DLG have written EL/PL business for years under their DL4B brand?
If DLG was a serious takeover target I'm sure the price wouldn't be continually dropping, Morgan Stanley have now cut their target price by 20p from 370 to 350.