No Christmas parcels.

[A500leroy]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50059531

[Spare tyre]

They’ll suffer when people find out how easy it is to drop parcels off at the CO op for a fraction of the cost

[Troubleatmill]

I recall when British Leyland etc went on strike - and we found that those Japanese cars started in winter, were reliable etc.
Hmmm.....

[MDMetal]

Indeed RM only have the share they do as people haven't bothered to look for other options, the moment they do that share isn't coming back!

[miniman]

This is literally turkeys voting for Christmas. Good grief!

[Glasgowrob]

letters no one else seems to compete with but the parcel market.

their going to lose a lot of business is this where we see amazon logistics make a big push i wonder and start taking other peoples stuff

[FourWheelDrift]

Yay! No junk mail.

[ferrisbueller]

miniman said:

This is literally turkeys voting for Christmas. Good grief!

This.

[abzmike]

Can’t see posties going on all out stroke before Christmas - think of all that overtime they’d miss.
(To be fair the service we get from our local guys is very good)

[anonymous-user]

Suicidal

[anonymous-user]

ferrisbueller said:

miniman said:

This is literally turkeys voting for Christmas. Good grief!

This.

+1, after they started striking regularly last time I started paying all my bills using online banking, can't remember the last time I used a stamp to pay any regular bill.

Maybe they have forgotten they were sold to a private company..

[FourWheelDrift]

I have a regular delivery via DPD, I never send letters or anything by post and all my accounts are online too.

[The Li-ion King]

FourWheelDrift said:

I have a regular delivery via DPD, I never send letters or anything by post and all my accounts are online too.

I guess Katie Price's next Court Summons will be late unless they switch to DHL...

I always aim for Click & Collect from Argos when it comes to eBay, the waiting in line with ID to collect from the Sorting Office is soul destroying. I would have thought in this age of competition, this is the last thing Royal Fail need

[valiant]

No one really has the infrastructure to do the ‘last mile’ delivery of letters as the post office has. I think it was TNT who tried to compete in London which is an incredibly condensed area compared to the rest of the country and even with zero hour, minimum wage casual labour, they were unable to make it work for 70p a letter and gave up.

Whether or not you use Royal Mail plenty do with almost 70m letters a day being posted although this is a decline of what used to be posted it does prove that plenty do use and rely on the service.

Remember, this is just a ballot. It is used as a tool to force both unions and management to get around the table and thrash things out. A strike ballot does not automatically mean a strike. From what I’ve read it seems that management are trying to renege on a recently agreed agreement that gave safeguards to staff over pay, pensions and working conditions. If the workers can’t trust the management to honour their word, is it any wonder they feel disenfranchised?

[anonymous-user]

abzmike said:

Can’t see posties going on all out stroke before Christmas - think of all that overtime they’d miss.
(To be fair the service we get from our local guys is very good)

Neither can I some of them may be wkers but not all

[abzmike]

techiedave said:

Neither can I some of them may be wkers but not all

oops...

[grumbledoak]

I can't remember when Royal Mail last successfully delivered me a parcel. I've been to collect loads at the local Post Office. They might as well take them straight there. Last mile, my arse.

[Jockman]

valiant said:

Remember, this is just a ballot. It is used as a tool to force both unions and management to get around the table and thrash things out. A strike ballot does not automatically mean a strike. From what I’ve read it seems that management are trying to renege on a recently agreed agreement that gave safeguards to staff over pay, pensions and working conditions. If the workers can’t trust the management to honour their word, is it any wonder they feel disenfranchised?

This is my understanding too.

[abzmike]

grumbledoak said:

I can't remember when Royal Mail last successfully delivered me a parcel. I've been to collect loads at the local Post Office. They might as well take them straight there. Last mile, my arse.

Is that because they can't find your address, or becasue you're not in?

[Gecko1978]

The issue seems to be the CWU say RM have gone back on what was agreed, if this is true then of course they can strike (it will speed up the demise of RM but that is another issue). But somehow like with TFL I get the feeling management ask for x in return for y then don't get x but are expected to deliver y in this case a shorter working week in return for increased efficiency.