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postal strike
strapping young lad:
it affects everyone... eg red letters sent out about non-payment or something
passport deliveries
credit/debit card dispatches
car tax (if you do it online)
the list goes on
utter poo, it may be self regulating but its not doing a good job of it, rather reactive imo.
im waiting for post that are quite urgent but alas i have to wait until the staff decide to stop throwing their dummies out of their prams!
Thrasher:
It's not like the other "vital" services that went on strike didn't have back-ups.
I don't recall a backlog of fires ..... :shock:
P.S. I hear that the blood donor service is relying on *postal* reminders .... and we only have something like 6 days supply left?
V8MoneyPit:
I really find it hard to understand how anyone striking can genuinely think it will make any difference to them. The way I see it, it can only make things worse.
Thrasher:
There will be *more* work when they get back, which no doubt will be charged as overtime :roll:
No sympathy.
Yoshi:
Thrasher, Post Office is privatised, but is not actually Royal Mail. The main problem is the unions in this case. Royal Mail have offered to raise the wages and its been refused because its not done how the union wants it.
Now the other problem is they are striking about is job cuts. How is costing a company £20m a day going to make it easier for the company to not have to lay off 40,000 staff when they go broke.
The union are the cause of the problem here, no-one else. If they had kept their beaks out then the job cuts would be minimised and pay raised by an ammount over the next 2 years.
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