Comments on: Local posties row Royal Mail over ‘scab’ jobs

By: letter-sender

letter-sender — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:20:39 +0000

I love the Royal Mail;

When I used to work for them someone put up a notice that read: “pay peanuts, get monkeys”, bit crude, but on-message!

@Carl, Couldn’t agree with you more, too many people are using the word consumer these days instead of customer, implying us humans are some kind of all-consuming monsters*!

* keeping meaning to re-see how The Matrix put this (!)

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By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:08:53 +0000

It is typically misleading to suggest the posties don’t want to work. On the contrary they are striking to protect their jobs and the postal service as it is. If there is no deal with Royal Mail management and Crozier and the Govt get their way we’ll end up with a service more expensive, less customer-oriented (unless you can afford to pay for it) and far from universal, eg if you live in remote areas you will either find your service restricted or charged for. Why anyone in their right mind would trust Royal Mail and the Govt is beyond me, but still we have the usual gob-shites arguing that workers should expect less cos there’s a recession and the public should expect their services to be slashed to pay for the bank bail-outs. They say “we are all in it together”, but bank bonuses and executive pay carry on as usual.

Bottom line – if you want a universal, public Postal Service, support the posties.

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By: kris

kris — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:11:00 +0000

Talk about shooting yourself in the head. Do these idiots not know there is a recession and upcoming election? Looking forward to a re-run of the Winter of Discontent.

Newsflash: we don’t need the Royal Mail. If it cannot deliver, for whatever reason, we are going to look elsewhere to get the job done.

Honestly, if you don’t want your job, there are thousands who do.

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