Yeah its a bastard. I am waiting for a lot of internet shopping to arrive, kinda wanted it before the weekend. Well if it doesnt arrive today or tomorrow i will have to wait :hopeless:

I hope they can sort it out though as postal strikes are just a major pain in the arse.

there is more than one courier for large items..

OTOH it is a pain but as someone who once worked for Royal Mail I I can fully understand why they are striking and it is their democratic right to do so.

I don’t think the EU should have forced european countries to open up their postal services to competition in the first place, what has happened is that the competitors are cherry picking the easy business mail in cities and dumping stuff like mail delivery in remote areas on the original state controlled postal authorities, so of course if Royal Mail or a similar postal authority in another country is trying to compete its impossible as its not a level playing field!

In fact since competition was introduced the price of stamps has gone up at least once if not twice – the number of deliveries has gone from two to one and post arrives a lot later than before.. :you_crazy

All small items that i ordered, when i paid it said it was being sent by Royal Mail. Ah well i suppose i can wait.

Oh I can understand why they are going to strike, I don’t blame them really. Its Royal Mail who seem to be the pain in the arse not the staff who are striking, If Royal Mail actually were reasonable and sorted their act out we wouldn’t have issues like this again.

I am sure we have had strikes in our local sorting office a few times recently, again because of how Royal Mail treated their staff.

You could almost be forgiven that it is already in effect!

LOL 😉

I must say ‘my’ postie is spot on,
IMHO Its just another case of the ‘system’ at fault

and with my recent mulitple purchases of camping gear off ebay he’s prob alot fitter this week :groucho:

Argh-its my mums birthday on Friday-hope her card arives on time!!!

My postie is an A+ chap – the only thing he hates is when I get tunes delivered :groucho: as they dont fit through my letter box….

never had a problem at home or at work, and I work out in the sticks…

my office is one of 3 converted barns, split into at least 6 businesses, but all on the same postcode, which Royal Mail also appear to share with an industrial estate across the other side of the A12!!!! :you_crazy:you_crazy:you_crazy

This is as you would expect a posties nightmare.

One day I ordered some bicycle parts, and had them delivered to work but forgot to put the company name.

I was expecting to have to go back to the depot in Ipswich to retrieve these – but our local postie somehow managed to locate which one of these buildings I was in and deliver the package (and I usually arrive at the office later than the post does, so its unlikely he has seen me in the village).

To this day I still don’t know how he managed this ..

A few, but they don’t always park their bikes outside the buildings they work in… its not immediately obvious that the package would have contained bike parts, plus staff in the other companies on the site also own bicycles so theres still a chance of misdelivery..

It was only a few months after I’d moved to the office as well, and in these days of email I rarely get a letter delivered to the office..

I suppose he must have actually taken the trouble to actually call round all the units and find out which one I was in, but that shows the real community spirit a lot of posties still have today….

Wish the strikers the best, i hope that bastard Crozier gets whats coming to him. I find what he said here pretty funny: “We are losing business because we have failed to change and modernise – and as a result, our costs and therefore our prices are higher than those that rivals are charging in the intensely competitive business mail market, which makes up 90% of all postings, That’s the issue everyone in Royal Mail has to face and why we are so ready to continue talking with the union about the need to modernise.”

I find all these words rather worrying out of a service that should be for the people. And they only want the union (CWU) to modernise because its still got quite a few millitant trade unionists within it. It may be reformist (What union isn’t?) but its still a threat to the increasingly pro business governments we’re facing today, its one of the last big unions.