so Royal Mail is going down the tubes then

royal mail will be able to diversify and grow the business. For example why can't the postman read meters

why are recorded delivery delivered during the day when most people are at work? Post privatization these will be done on an evening

 

Good luck with your new work colleagues

 

It's about growing the business. Protecting livelyhoods

 

1. Because post meter's don't exist
2. Because recorded delivery is largely used to send mail to businesses.
3. Will all the businesses have to open their offices during the evening for your new radical evening recorded delivery idea?

 

I thought it was about looking like a tit again

 

What happens is something like the following. However it is one of the reasons first and second class stamps are different colours. The different colours are spotted by a machine and the letters sorted by class or mail - and another machine reads the post code and they are sorted into areas - and if the machine can't read the post code then a person helps out - starting with the first class.

When all this has been done they start loading these groups onto lorries - with the priority letters - or first class letters being loaded first.

At a certain point in the night - the lorry has to leave - to make sure the first class post gets there.

If the lorry is too full - or the time runs out - the second class sits there in the sorting office until the next day.

Often, however, there is enough room and there is enough time - so very often it takes the same time for a first class as a second class.

 

And exploiting the the workforce for as much profit as they can squeeze before giving it back as a broken industry ala east coast trains and the other utility companies they're trying to offload.

 

Do a good enough job of that yourself

 

As I say I have just been made redundant from one of those companies

 

expect industrial action next month,
the cwu are pushing us this way, we will get probably slated for this as been greedy,
from an employees point of view, our pensions have been altered, don't ask me how, they just did when the deficit was taken over,
we are still owed money from the last agreement,
these free shares we will get cannot be sold for 3 years or 5 years if you don't want to be taxed on them, i guess that anyone leaving before 2017 would get nothing,
we were all given "colleague shares" years ago, think i had around 2k, and when they became eligible to cash in they were deemed worthless, i know these are different to the shares currently on offer, but most expect the same result
RM want to offer a 3 year pay deal, which you may think sounds ok,
but in those terms is to make any form of industrial action illegal thus rendering the cwu useless (they already are!) so basically they could do what they want later,
cut holidays, shorter contracted hours, no sick pay, no saturdays except special delivers, 1/6 of the workforce could be culled once they wrangle out of the uso
basically anyone coming into the business are on temp contracts with very few rights, some at our d/o got nearly 3 years service on these terms

 

The staff will overwhelmingly vote to strike and reject the bribe of shares.....you going to be a scab then

 

How?

 

Share options and sharesave schemes

 

Deluded. Brainwashed. Poor fool.

 

Are you seriously saying that doesn't happen and didn't happen with previous sell offs . Cos I know for a fact it did

 

Go on then, I'll bite. In which privatised company did the average worker make £100k?

 

Gas, electricity, water. I know this as a fact

 

What I don't understand is who uses letter post anyway? About 90% of the post I get goes directly from the letter box to the blue bin without being even looked at. At work 10 years ago we used to drop off big bags of letters every day, now there are possibly 2 or 3 per day and on many days nothing.

I can't remember the last time I posted a letter, can't see the point of it these days.

 

Granted the bigwigs made even more. Best thing that ever happened for the man on the shopfloor

Also this would be over a 5year period as that's how long the sharesave scheme would operate

 

It'll be like the buses oh that's not a popular route we can't deliver mail there you can come and collect it instead...