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Original poster

is my friend ureasonable for starting a royal mail petition personally i dont think so

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lillaura123 · 03/08/2007 21:35

my friend started a petition on the 10 downing street website about Royal Mail
to Stop them Striking all the time.Please sign it here is the link to sign.
petitions.pm.gov.uk/RoyalMailStrikes/

since we have started signing she has suffered from horrible comments from posties etc - come on girls please help and sign up xx

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Aitch · 05/08/2007 00:44

you really are the biggest bone-head i've seen in a long time, lilaura.

UCM · 05/08/2007 00:44

No I thought you were talking bollox, is that followers language then?

Aitch got fed up, but I kept up, so I can chalk one up on her as from now Yayyyyyyyy.

Aitch · 05/08/2007 00:45

i told you to fuck right off. but you didn't. please re-assure me that at least you don't vote.

UCM · 05/08/2007 00:45

Aaaah Aitch, you returned was really hoping the be the person with the most perseverance tonight. Bloody fuck.

themoon66 · 05/08/2007 00:46

'i really couldnt care - my views are still the same oh and once again baaaaaaaaaaa that means goodnight in followers language but youd probably know that already '

So you say you want discussion and education, but you don't really, do you?

Lileth · 05/08/2007 00:46

There is a vast difference between being a crowd follower and being able to follow and disseminate reasoned argument.

I think you may find it useful to work on being able to make this distinction in future.

Original poster
lillaura123 · 05/08/2007 00:46

if it went to fortnightly deliveries we would go elsewhere and make some other big boss very rich and RM big boss very sad - the alternative companies will then need more employees making vacancy for postamen out of work

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1legmummy · 05/08/2007 00:47

oh my god!! what a load of rude bitches save a few) have you all taken time to read this from start to finish?

I thought we were all parents there for each other for advice and sometimes to share opinions with

UCM · 05/08/2007 00:47

Baaaaaaaaaaa then Laura. Now I know you aint a sheep. You might try talking to sheepgomeep, she will know about this?

Now I will say goodnight in an orderly fashion.

Goodnight Laura. I hope that you and your family fare well.

Aitch · 05/08/2007 00:47

i am just going to bed. i can't believe that someone can acknowledge that they, through no fault of their own (other than a depletion of strength of the teachers' unions, perhaps?) had a 'crap education' and yet refuse to listen to people who might know what they're talking about...

TheQueenOfQuotes · 05/08/2007 00:48

and I presume, seen as though YOU would work if you DH couldn't find a well paid job, that you've got all the qualifications and experience nessecary to find a job that would pay as much as he earns now??

UCM - I am more experienced that you - I have 3 children, and I'm 28 .

elkiedee · 05/08/2007 00:49

I agree with all those who see the right to strike as important.

lillaura123, I don't agree with you on the strike. However, regarding housing, I don't know what the housing officers are thinking of in cancelling your application in such circumstances. I have some advice for you, based on an understanding of how these things can work in my 10 years experience of working as a secretary in 6 different areas within 2 local authorities. And as a political activist who has had the dubious pleasure of encountering various elected representatives - MPs and councillors - over some years

I would suggest:

Phone the relevant section and make it clear you will be complaining, formally. Try to speak to the manager if you can. But stay polite to anyone you speak to, particularly as often you will be talking on the phone to someone who is not the one making decisions.

Make a formal complaint and ask them to reinstate you with at least equal priority to where you were at the list, or a commitment to offer you the next suitable property under the circumstances. You should be able to do this via the Council's website - as clearly you have internet access - if you're unable to go in and visit the relevant office in person.

Go to a local councillor's surgery.

Contact your MP - most have an email contact address that you should be able to find out online, or there will be a local party office or something that you can phone.

Councillors and MPs can contact the local council officers, eg the housing department, about your case and try and intervene on your behalf. Although I don't always think it's fair, we do feel under more pressure to jump when a councillor raises an issue.

But don't blame the posties because you have a bad experience elsewhere.

Original poster
lillaura123 · 05/08/2007 00:49

followers yes like a pack of school girls all choosing the same shoes cause they are fashionalble - any way off to bed got kids to get up for and wnat a clear head to make the most of the day with them

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UCM · 05/08/2007 00:49

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themoon66 · 05/08/2007 00:49

'Defend Postal Services
The South West TUC has expressed full support for the CWU in its dispute with the Royal Mail. Nigel Costley, Regional Secretary South West TUC said: 'This dispute is about protecting the public postal services and deserves all our support.'

The above is quote from the TUC website. It IS ABOUT PROTECTING THE PUBLIC POSTAL SERVICES.

If we do not support this, how the hell are we going to have any sort of serious postal service in the years to come?

Pan · 05/08/2007 00:50

MN at it's best.......that WAS pretty exposive, even by MN standards!!!

TheQueenOfQuotes · 05/08/2007 00:51

hang on a minute - you don't want to rely on tax credits (even though you are probably ENTITLED to them), and you don't want to live on your giro........BUT you're happy to take council housing? If you've got enough money to be able to save - why not rent privately???

Lileth · 05/08/2007 00:51

Ah well, no post on Sundays.

1legmummy · 05/08/2007 00:52

I was stating my opinion did I use your name?? I did say save a few and maybe you are in that few - I think not after hearing your language - what a lovely person you must be.

I did not call anyone names only said that I thoght MOST of the threads were rude

deary me - I did hit a nerve didnt I?

TheQueenOfQuotes · 05/08/2007 00:53

"followers yes like a pack of school girls all choosing the same shoes cause they are fashionalble"

I'm no follower - did you look at my links - or are you too scared to see what our grandparents/greatgrandparents fought so hard for???

UCM · 05/08/2007 00:54

Ah Pan again, have you read it all or are you just being silly by missing the x as I missed the r

UCM · 05/08/2007 00:55

And Pan, I have spent the best part of the last two hours trying in vain to be nice............I blardy give up.

Aitch · 05/08/2007 00:55

btw, if your DH is earning so much how come you are taking social housing from under the noses of poorly-paid workers who can't get it? shoudln't you, with your right-wing views, be a member of the homeowning classes? or can't you afford it, like so many others, because your leaderene and keith joseph exploded the council house system, selling them off specifically to make people wish to defend their mortgages and break unions? there's no shame in it, but for the record it was right-wing thinking that brought about these horrific house price rises.

TheQueenOfQuotes · 05/08/2007 00:55

ha - Aitch - beat you to it - see my previous post

Aitch · 05/08/2007 00:57

lol! just read it.
the whole thing smells of shite to me. as do these sem-literate 'newbies' who think we're all bullies...