Is anyone else getting blardy sick of the postal strikes?

[DANCESwithHughJackman]

Before I get jumped on I know they have the right to strike and my brother used to be a postman so I know about the pay/conditions but I have things ordered for the small business I run from home and they aren't arriving and next week I'm expecting a really important letter and am not sure if/when I will receive it. I'm really getting sick of it

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They dont get paid for striking so will be losing money because they want more money, better conditions, is that about it? Not being sarky, just want the nub of it. But wont they have to work a lot more to make up for the money they have lost through striking?

To be honest, I do a lot of stuff online and I have a fax machine so it hasn't really affected me that much but in my opinion for the posties to actually strike, they really must be at the end of their tether. Mind you, I knew it would come to this in the end...

Regardless of whether the strike's justified or not, I would like to know why so much stuff goes missing.

During the last strike a parcel i was expecting never turned up. Simple inefficiency or someone helping themselves, I wonder?

And have also just found out the birth cert I sent off for DS's child benefit never turned up. So have no CB, no birth certificate, and have to trust only other copy to f**king useless post system.

Am almost totally out of sympathy because my mail isn't just delayed as result of strikes, it is either stolen or chucked away as far as I can tell.

It is frustrating that so many people rely on it so much.
It is driving me nuts. I had a bill tsken from bank that I knew nothing about cause the letter was in the post. I have been charged by my bank for going over! Now I have to write a letter to get it resolved but don't know how long that will take to be received!!!!
Not to mention all the ebay stuff I am waiting for.

I'm royally pissed off with Crozier and his cronies, tbh. The guys on the coal-face (oh, how appropriate that turn of phrase is) have got f-all choice. They have families to support and they can't just roll over.

The sodding management have screwed the Post Office up one side and down the other, and I just sat opened mouthed while I watched a 'funny' advert set in a Post Office, calling it 'The People's Post Office'

WTF-ity-F????????

They're closing Post Offices round here, eating their workers pensions and working conditions for breakfast, and they're the frigging 'people's post office'?

Crozier, censored , comrade.

I'm in Liverpool and TBH it's only just beginning to pee me off now after no post for over a week and still the strike continues here.

we don't get a lot of post but I don't know how small businesses will be coping.

Also not had any cards through for poor DD2 who's birthday was last week.

Bet the posties are a tad annoyed too, with chistmas coming they could be doing without this loss of pay.

I'm a smal business & it's affecting me no end as I rely on banking cheques as they come in to keep my cash flow going. It was staff pay-day last week & I had to go to the PO & take out some family allowance to deposit as cash into my business account!! I will claim it back eventually but that's not the point.

Now I support the PO workers grievances but I could bash everyones heads together. Unions have to plan ahead a bit more & initiate discusssions with management regularly to keep dialogue open & prevent any imposition of changes out of the blue. They also have to accept that the RM is a business & has to be made more efficient. Similarly the RM has to realise it can't go steaming in with imposed changes without planning more long term, discussing the options, & looking at ways of implementing changes jointly with the workers.

We're fighting a battle at the moment to keep our PO open it is vital to our small rural community- the strikes could not have come at a worse time as the RM is losing business big time.

If people can find a cost-effecive speedier way of delivering their packets/parcels/documents they will not go back to posting them.

PS- just got my mail!

How come they can sort the bloody junk mail but not the personal/business stuff -ah yes they get paid for junk mail don't they?