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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

OP posts:
FlameFlamingo · 03/08/2007 21:48

No.

Original poster
lillaura123 · 03/08/2007 21:48

blue dont think there is any need to get personal the reason i put it on AIBU? is because i respect other peoples points of views and wanted to see what everyone thought (discussion rather than debate ) and because i disagree with the strikes shouldnt make me a target for comments about how good or bad my grammer is - apologies for anyone offeneded

OP posts:
themoon66 · 03/08/2007 21:48

I understand that part of the issue is that they are expected to deliver other companies stuff at a loss.

Also, the private companies who are wanting to compete for the business do not actually provide a comparable service, but are not advertising that obviously. So if you live in middle of a rural area and a private company takes over from Royal Mail, you will have to pay to get your mail delivered or go without.

We should support our Royal Mail.

wannaBe · 03/08/2007 21:49

and one day of strike = one day of not getting a pile of junk through my door that will only end up in the recycling anyway. Oh yes, and that's junk that they have no choice about delivering.

expatinscotland · 03/08/2007 21:49

What's your pal's objection to the strikes then, laura, and why are you on here defending this instead of her?

backtobasics · 03/08/2007 21:50

I have a genuine question; Why do we get our mail now at lunchtime as aposed to early morning?

wannaBe · 03/08/2007 21:50

and what exactly does she expect the government to do about it?

elasticsortinghandstand · 03/08/2007 21:51

later deliveries cos they have to start later, thereby losing their extra pay for starting really early in the morning.
bad deal for posties

sparklygothkat · 03/08/2007 21:52

My cousin explained to me that other compancies are taking the mail from banks, compancies etc, and then dropping it at Royal mail where they have to deliver it, but they lose money as RM are not collecting the mail. So a company are making money just to collect it, yet RM have to sort and deliver it for less money

IdrisTheDragon · 03/08/2007 21:52

Why is this being posted in so many topics?

elasticsortinghandstand · 03/08/2007 21:52

companies like TNT

expatinscotland · 03/08/2007 21:53

Hello? Laura?

Why are you here doing this instead of her?

Why isn't she here telling us all why she opposes the strikes?

Did she think we'd all baaa for da Master and sign it just because?

GibbonInARibbon · 03/08/2007 21:53

why is this all over active convos?????????

themoon66 · 03/08/2007 21:53

sparkleygoth... thats what i was saying in my post about them having to sort other companies' stuff at a loss.

backtobasics · 03/08/2007 21:54

I think they should be able to start early. That way people get their mail nice and early and workers get more pay.

nutcracker · 03/08/2007 21:55

My brother is a postie, so I won't be signing the petition thanks.

I will never forget, not long after he started work there and they refused to drop some of his bags out to him and said he had to take them all, eaning he was way over his allowed weight limit, but what could he do.

He rang home just as I was leaving for college, and he was almost in tears. I had to bunk of college, hunt in the garage for the sledge (we'd had heavy snow), and go and meet him and pull his extra bags around his route with him.

He has been there for about 16 years now and they still get treated like shite and are expected to work for crap pay and do more and more for nothing, would you be ok with that ??

hunkermunker · 03/08/2007 21:55

PMSL at the signatories:

Current signatoriesPenny Mapsey, the Petition Creator, joined by:

Donna Frances Jackson
Paul Johnson
Colin Smith(working postie in Didcot)
Geannetta Fellows
Christopher Gilders
melanie allen
Fraser Smith
GU-yeah, it's really annoying!
Elaine White
pat porter
L MacDonald
Laura Wyllie
Sian Jacobs
Mark Dyson
Linda Johnson (the strike can't work, well done Colin!)
Victoria Evans
Jason Thomson
Get your facts right on our troubles before doing this pathetic petition!!!!
Are these all your classmates?
John G Hamnett
Christopher Colborne
One dense ill-informed idiot
Miss Informed
will not sign this petion
we know that its posties leaving the sad comments
Lorayn Brown
Liam Pennington
Ian Lancaster
Graham Andrews
Robert Arnold
Jake Shepherd
Vincent Gallagher
this is the first lot of industrial action since 1996. Support your last British company!
Scabs Can Sign
The Worlds Biggest Idiot
kinmadUmorons do not know what you're talking about
support the cwu and give us what we deserve no more dealings behind our backs!!
Victory to the Workers!
TOMMO OF STRIKESVILLE PLEASE FIND OUT THE REAL TRUTH... THANK YOU.
G Raff
scabby Mcscab
No more nonesense from you two
I am a fucktarded scab

jofeb04 · 03/08/2007 21:55

Just been on the other thread. I love my postie.

QueenofBleach · 03/08/2007 21:56

My postie refuses to strike and gets the mail here no later than 8.30 am

expatinscotland · 03/08/2007 21:58

I can't say I give a toss when it comes so long as it gets there.

In the US, it comes when it comes so that's what I'm used to, I guess.

What I'm really used to, however, is being a working poor.

So, no, I won't be signing any petition, let's just say.

browniedropout · 03/08/2007 21:59

TOTALLY WITH POST PEOPLE. ...!! If only we didn't work for such ...bleep bleep bleep companies (IS ANYONE UNTRACABLE? we'd be out there too.

wannaBe · 03/08/2007 22:00

pmsl at the signature list.

Does anyone really get mail that is so important, they have to have it early in the morning? I have internet banking,, thus no need for statements, I can quite do without the credit card offers thank you very much, and the rest will come when it comes and dh opens it when he gets in from work anyway so as long as it's there by 7 pm I really couldn't give a toss.

BigGitDad · 03/08/2007 22:00

I'm with the majority on ths thread. The right to strike is fundamental to democracy as an earlier poster put.

2shoes · 03/08/2007 22:03

as an ex CWU member I would never sign a petition.
strange that some one would think of doing this. have they nothing better to do with their time.

elesbells · 03/08/2007 22:03

i watch my postie in all weathers deliver mail day in day out. he must be at least 60 years old but ill tell you something, he is always smiling, always says good morning (or afternoon, whatever the case may be)and he works hard.

When they strike he still has to post the letters that were not delivered during the strike, so its not like they do it for fun. they are treated like shit whilst the bosses get richer so good luck to them i say.