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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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filchthemildmanneredjanitor · 06/08/2007 10:28

well the fact that more one person is commenting on your lack of knowledge and bad grammar just means that more than one person is annoyed by it!!!!!

this is not 11 years at school love!
and if you are that bothered by it stop posting on the thread!!! that's the thing about mumsnet! it's entirely optional and you can turn the computer off at any time!!!

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lillaura123 · 06/08/2007 10:29

the issue on postal strike is kind of been made clear now i understand and take on board all other opinions but i still keep to mine - the issue now on this particular thread has been changed due to petty personal comments ... which i apologise for as i dont see why a convo aboutpostal strikes has been turned into something else

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lillaura123 · 06/08/2007 10:30

i know i can but still everytime i log into mumsnet now i see yet another comment about me - dont see that being fair - surely these peole are just as capable of turning it off and not answering as i am ?

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filchthemildmanneredjanitor · 06/08/2007 10:30

but we aren't bothered by it! you are the one who is annoyed by it!!!

littlelapininhercar · 06/08/2007 10:32

the comment about ignorance breeding ignorance was OTT, I agree, but I don't think the occasional obnoxious comment constitutes bullying. You have been giving as good as you get, IMO . Oblomov and my point was that by flinging words like bullying around at the earliest instance, you devalue that word.

And before you get huffy, it wasn't actually you that said it initially, so that comment is not specifically aimed at you.

littlelapininhercar · 06/08/2007 10:34

LOL, lillaura - go on another thread ! There are thooousands (and I promise we are not talking about you on them )

Oblomov · 06/08/2007 10:42

I have re-read thread. I think it god a bit nasty really. Quite personal. Not good.
Bullying. No. But not nice.

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lillaura123 · 06/08/2007 10:43

i am on other threads, and i usully enjoy mumsnet, i have never experienced any of this on here b4.

i too dont see the prob with occasional comment but it was just over and over again which i didnt like . which is why i gave as good as i got .

and yes i might b the only one bothered by it but that was due to the fact that t was all aimed at me - would anyone be annoyed??

obtw has it occured to anyone that more than one person has been on this thread it seemed horrible and like bullying and from what ive seen most of the people that have said that have not agreed on my views of the postal strike and do not feel the need to be nasty due to difference of opinions

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filchthemildmanneredjanitor · 06/08/2007 10:47

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tjacksonpfc · 06/08/2007 10:47

"i think it is very poor of him to being doing the work of people who are striking.

scab i believe is the term for people like that."

i dont agree with that at all my dp is suporting the strikes but as he is nto a union member if he went out on strike he would be suspended for a week without pay and at the end of the day we cant afford that so he has to go out and deliver the mail so filtchthemildmannordjanitor. i think before you make comments like the above you should look into things first. just because there are posties still delivering on strike day doesnt mean they arent supporting the strike there just may be other reasons why they arent on strike.

tjacksonpfc · 06/08/2007 10:53

"feckin hell I missed that.

no laura, your postie is not bravely doing the work of those who are out of strike

he is a SCAB who is too bloody spineless to take the risk of striking himself, but will then roll over and take the benefits accrued by the strikers."

i take it then fillydoratonks your dp is a postie who is on strike if not i think you should keep your opinions to yourself as you dont no people personal circumstances as to why there dps arent striking try earing £240 a week and having a £675 per month rent and 2 dcs to look after nad then being asked to go out on strike and loose some of that money atr least other posties are more understaning of peoples situations.

filchthemildmanneredjanitor · 06/08/2007 10:56

but he will accept the benefits that are won by other people striking??

and none of the striking postmen will experience hardship because of the strike?

doing what you believe in isn't always easy.

PSCMUM · 06/08/2007 10:58

Right to strike is fundamental! Cannot believe anyone is so blind as to think its more important that you / your friend get your credit card statements on time, than that postal workers get decent pay, working conditions and are not treated like rubbish! Wake up and think more about your fellow human beings - the postal workers - and less about your selves. Honestly. Some people. Its enough to make me go and join the posties on the picket line! Do you by any teeny chance vote Tory?!

filchthemildmanneredjanitor · 06/08/2007 10:59

i would bet a substantial amount of money that some people on this thread don't vote at all.

Oblomov · 06/08/2007 11:03

This thread is getting unreal. We can't go around calling eachother ( or eachothers dp's / dh's) scabs. This is not o.k.

tearsndtantrums · 06/08/2007 11:08

workers have the right to strike yet they dont have to.

in our current finacial situation if my partners workplace went on strike he would still be working we cannot afford for him to strike and whilst fighting the cause is great its even better to actually have a home and food to come home to.

there is nothing scabby about working through a strike especially if your not in a position to go without full or even no pay.

PSCMUM · 06/08/2007 11:10

You can still go to work during a strike and you can support the strike in other ways - like talking to people about how important it is and what the issues are. But I thik fundamentally striking is so important, and the rights won by striking will be won by those who strike, for all of the workers, including those who didn't strike. I'm not sure how I feel about that. But I certainly am not going to criticse people for needing to work to put food on the table - but they shoud lbe active in support of their fellow workers who are striking in other ways. I think!.

tjacksonpfc · 06/08/2007 11:18

filtchthemildmannoredjanitor how have you worked out that none of the postmen will experiance harship though striking because my dp isnt a union member which he thought he was but the one in his office who sorted it lost the paper work then if he goes out on strike he will loose 1 days pay and be suspended for a week with out pay so he will loose about £320 all together when you are paying rent of £675 how are you supossed to live thats with out other bills and everything else. my dp is going in delivering his mail and coming home he has been asked to deliver the mail of the posties that are on strike and has refused as he will clock up loads of overtime by doing that and he is not willing to do that as it isnt far on the posties that have striked. have you actually got somone in your family on strike or are you lucky enough to have people in secure jobs that they dont need to worry about where the mortgage/rent payemnts are coming from

Bluestocking · 06/08/2007 11:45

PunctuationPrincess! You are desperately needed over here!

tearsndtantrums · 06/08/2007 11:55

please please pleeeeeaaase stop striking so i dont get daily phone calls asking me to lend out money to various friends whose giros have not turned up.

we arent rich, far from it and its driving me maaaaaaaad. just deliver the flaming giros PLEASE lol.

sorry but ive had two phonecalls in the last 20 minutes asking me for a loan. have i won the lottery and not realised it?

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lillaura123 · 06/08/2007 12:35

tears thats not good poor you xx saying that ill probably end up with my mum on the phone too for same reason - funny how people come out of he woodwork all of a sudden ey?

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g21inny · 06/08/2007 12:41

Bluetocking cut the punctuation and Grammar crap for godsake its boring! yawn!

g21inny · 06/08/2007 12:42

sorry spelling wrong there Bluestocking! just incase i get knocked down a grade in this english exam.

expatinscotland · 06/08/2007 12:44

U r bng nasty blue. Respect. Ur a bully. Txt spk hun.

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lillaura123 · 06/08/2007 12:47

y'all bllys nd dapunct. stf dnt bover any1 els so giv it a brk kk - nw stp slggin off da txt tlk - it ent be'n used 4 evry word is it ova wise it wud lk like hw i jus typd dis lol

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