Sadly my company will be moving away from Royal Mail with this announcement.
EDIT: Getting downvoted, but this is literally the intended purposes of the strikes. They won’t have any effect until businesses start pulling their business from Royal Mail.
Has a ex postie, I really don’t blame them. When I was there. The management were scumbags, lied at every opportunity and keep making the rounds bigger and bigger, when they’re already too big. They used the same excuse that mail is dropping. While ignoring the fact that parcels are going through the roof and take a lot longer to deliver.
I will say one thing though. Alot of posties don’t help with the situation. Loads never taken thier breaks, started early everyday (unpaid) so they could get done on time. (Or finish early and make thier round look like it’s not big enough). But this was also due to management bullying and posties too scared to say no.
I don’t work there no more but I’ll show my support on the picket line when I have time 👍
My son handed in his resignation today. He said it was drastic measures for a drastic situation.
During strike action, the RMail is willing to pay agency workers a much higher hourly rate. They also reward managers handsomely for working during strike action. The backlog of post is enormous but the company isn’t doing anything proactive. The company has gone to shit.
This is going to kill non-Amazon retailers. It’s a very unfortunate side-effect of legitimate action, but if people can’t trust non-Amazon retailers to be able to deliver for Christmas, they’ll simply shop with Amazon instead.
That’s a RIP, just sent off my passport for renewal. Hopefully it gets through before the shutdown.
So their service may speed up? Excellent, I sent my Christmas cards this week hoping they arrive in time.
* 24 hours from 4am on October 13 until October 14 (Pay)
* 24 hours from 4am on October 20 until October 21st (Change)
* 24 hours from 4am on October 25 until October 26 (Change)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 2 until November 3 (All network)
* 24 hours from 4am November 3 until November 4 (All Processing, Area Distribution, International, Collections, Admin and MDEC)
* 24 hours from 4am November 4 until November 5 (All Deliveries)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 8 until November 9 (All Network)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 9 until November 10 (Processing, Area Distribution, International, Collections, Admin and MDEC)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 10 until November 11 (All Deliveries)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 14 until November 15 (All Network)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 15 until November 16 (Processing, Area Distribution, International, Collections, Admin and MDEC)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 16 until November 17 (All Deliveries)
Black Friday week:
* 24 hours from 4am on November 23 until November 24 (All Network)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 24 until November 25 (All Processing, Area Distribution, Collections, International, Admin and MDEC)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 25 until November 26 (All Deliveries)
* 24 hours all out on Cyber Monday, November 28 until November 29 (Everyone)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 31 until December 1 (All Network)
* 24 hours from 4am on December 1 until December 2 (All Processing, Area Distribution, Collections, International, Admin and MDEC)
* 24 hours from 4am on December 2 until December 3 (All Deliveries)
Wow, these are brutal. I’m fully in support of this action, but this is going to hurt a lot of people and small businesses. Though disruption is the point
But how is TV licensing going to contact me?
We have a company that relies on RM picking up every day so 19 day’s mean we will also move our business otherwise we won’t have a company either……
The UK warehouse fulfilling orders for my ex-employer (fairly large online retailer) is moving to DHL be cause of RM unreliability. According to old colleagues I keep in touch with
Small business owner here.
If you’re a business owner working with RM, just spare 2 minutes off your time and send them an e-mail tomorrow, kindly reminding them to get their shit together, pay people their right dues or you’ll have to find a new partner to work with.
My main income comes through e-commerce and I use RM for 95% of the packets I send out.
Not looking forward to this at all. But I support them doing it.
Id jump ship if there was an alternative that could do a small packet for £1 though. No question.
But these strikes plus the pound dropping to nearly the same as a dollar? Fuck I might be done by end of year.
Given the shocking lack of regular deliveries where I live, I doubt I’ll notice the difference.
Royal Mail Group made £758 million profit in FY 2021-2022.
£416 million of that comes from Royal Mail.
I’m fully behind these strikes and our union, but damn it’s going to hurt me in the wallet hard. Christmas this year is going to be tight.
I see a steady trickle of fellow posties handing in their notice over time, and I’ve also been looking about for somewhere to jump ship to. I really don’t want anything to do with the proposed changes to how we work (Mon to Sunday working days, shifts late into the evening etc.) they’re just not compatible with family life.
Postie here, I’m on my way out. Got a bit more work to do on my TEFL and as soon as I’ve got enough online work I’m bailing. It’s a real shame, I loved being a postie, but the job has gone to complete shit. For everyone saying “oh it’s 25k a year to put paper through doors, how hard can it be?”
I’ve had 3 full weekends off this year. I walk 15 miles a day, in all weathers. Our days off around Christmas? Christmas Day and Boxing Day. 600 houses per round. We’re attacked by dogs, bullied by managers and abused by customers. It’s become a job for donkeys, destroying our physical health (knees are absolutely fucked, I’m in my early 30s) and I’m too knackered at the end of the day to do anything other than sleep, eat, then wake up the next day and do it again. It’s no life at all.
Public sector been taking a flogging, just incredible movement by the working class folks power to all them.
When postal workers went on strike in the 80s companies started using fax and the volume of business letters never recovered. They need to be careful that they don’t do something similar again.
Well done to them. They perform an important and difficult job. Made all the harder by profiteering by their new owners. It’s about time they took a stand.
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Good on them. The media will try to make them look like fools. Just watch.
My Sister works for RM and has received a letter from them basically saying the strikes will KILL Royal Mail and force them to make job cuts etc and basically blaming the union for it.
The company is so out of touch with their employees it’s unreal.
Aaaaaah fuck, my passport forms are currently in the mail. I’m all for industrial action, but talk about time sensitive.
This is terrible news. Who will deliver the Letters of No Confidence?
Is there a part of UK that isn’t striking? Everyday I seem to hear about some new department taking striking action, is it really getting that bad?
Evri has been really good for me and my small business although I do vary between Evri and RM.
When I use Evri to send, I do it via Parcel2Go rather than Evri directly. If a parcel does to walkies or something else happens, it’s then down to P2G to chase and you can speak to them online 24/7
And you might find P2G slightly cheaper as well.
I try to avoid Yodel because, in my area at least, they are REALLY slow and my packages that I send seem to sit in the local distribution centre for days at a time.
Going to have to step up the search for an alternative to sending small packages 1st class. It’s getting ever more expensive and been meaning to look around, even considering DPD for cheap stuff given the costs aren’t that far apart now
So this strike is to align the pay increase with cost of living.
Does that mean my pay should also be raised by the same percent.. unfortunately I don’t get the option to strike.
Also what happens when the cost of living goes down..will they take a pay cut ?
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Sadly my company will be moving away from Royal Mail with this announcement.
EDIT: Getting downvoted, but this is literally the intended purposes of the strikes. They won’t have any effect until businesses start pulling their business from Royal Mail.
Has a ex postie, I really don’t blame them. When I was there. The management were scumbags, lied at every opportunity and keep making the rounds bigger and bigger, when they’re already too big. They used the same excuse that mail is dropping. While ignoring the fact that parcels are going through the roof and take a lot longer to deliver.
I will say one thing though. Alot of posties don’t help with the situation. Loads never taken thier breaks, started early everyday (unpaid) so they could get done on time. (Or finish early and make thier round look like it’s not big enough). But this was also due to management bullying and posties too scared to say no.
I don’t work there no more but I’ll show my support on the picket line when I have time 👍
My son handed in his resignation today. He said it was drastic measures for a drastic situation.
During strike action, the RMail is willing to pay agency workers a much higher hourly rate. They also reward managers handsomely for working during strike action. The backlog of post is enormous but the company isn’t doing anything proactive. The company has gone to shit.
This is going to kill non-Amazon retailers. It’s a very unfortunate side-effect of legitimate action, but if people can’t trust non-Amazon retailers to be able to deliver for Christmas, they’ll simply shop with Amazon instead.
That’s a RIP, just sent off my passport for renewal. Hopefully it gets through before the shutdown.
So their service may speed up? Excellent, I sent my Christmas cards this week hoping they arrive in time.
From [The Metro](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/27/royal-mail-workers-to-stage-19-further-strikes-over-next-two-months-17462981/), the strike dates are:
* 24 hours from 4am on October 13 until October 14 (Pay)
* 24 hours from 4am on October 20 until October 21st (Change)
* 24 hours from 4am on October 25 until October 26 (Change)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 2 until November 3 (All network)
* 24 hours from 4am November 3 until November 4 (All Processing, Area Distribution, International, Collections, Admin and MDEC)
* 24 hours from 4am November 4 until November 5 (All Deliveries)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 8 until November 9 (All Network)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 9 until November 10 (Processing, Area Distribution, International, Collections, Admin and MDEC)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 10 until November 11 (All Deliveries)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 14 until November 15 (All Network)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 15 until November 16 (Processing, Area Distribution, International, Collections, Admin and MDEC)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 16 until November 17 (All Deliveries)
Black Friday week:
* 24 hours from 4am on November 23 until November 24 (All Network)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 24 until November 25 (All Processing, Area Distribution, Collections, International, Admin and MDEC)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 25 until November 26 (All Deliveries)
* 24 hours all out on Cyber Monday, November 28 until November 29 (Everyone)
* 24 hours from 4am on November 31 until December 1 (All Network)
* 24 hours from 4am on December 1 until December 2 (All Processing, Area Distribution, Collections, International, Admin and MDEC)
* 24 hours from 4am on December 2 until December 3 (All Deliveries)
Wow, these are brutal. I’m fully in support of this action, but this is going to hurt a lot of people and small businesses. Though disruption is the point
But how is TV licensing going to contact me?
We have a company that relies on RM picking up every day so 19 day’s mean we will also move our business otherwise we won’t have a company either……
The UK warehouse fulfilling orders for my ex-employer (fairly large online retailer) is moving to DHL be cause of RM unreliability. According to old colleagues I keep in touch with
Small business owner here.
If you’re a business owner working with RM, just spare 2 minutes off your time and send them an e-mail tomorrow, kindly reminding them to get their shit together, pay people their right dues or you’ll have to find a new partner to work with.
My main income comes through e-commerce and I use RM for 95% of the packets I send out.
Not looking forward to this at all. But I support them doing it.
Id jump ship if there was an alternative that could do a small packet for £1 though. No question.
But these strikes plus the pound dropping to nearly the same as a dollar? Fuck I might be done by end of year.
Given the shocking lack of regular deliveries where I live, I doubt I’ll notice the difference.
https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/RMG/full-year-results-2021-22/15459094
Royal Mail Group made £758 million profit in FY 2021-2022.
£416 million of that comes from Royal Mail.
I’m fully behind these strikes and our union, but damn it’s going to hurt me in the wallet hard. Christmas this year is going to be tight.
I see a steady trickle of fellow posties handing in their notice over time, and I’ve also been looking about for somewhere to jump ship to. I really don’t want anything to do with the proposed changes to how we work (Mon to Sunday working days, shifts late into the evening etc.) they’re just not compatible with family life.
Postie here, I’m on my way out. Got a bit more work to do on my TEFL and as soon as I’ve got enough online work I’m bailing. It’s a real shame, I loved being a postie, but the job has gone to complete shit. For everyone saying “oh it’s 25k a year to put paper through doors, how hard can it be?”
I’ve had 3 full weekends off this year. I walk 15 miles a day, in all weathers. Our days off around Christmas? Christmas Day and Boxing Day. 600 houses per round. We’re attacked by dogs, bullied by managers and abused by customers. It’s become a job for donkeys, destroying our physical health (knees are absolutely fucked, I’m in my early 30s) and I’m too knackered at the end of the day to do anything other than sleep, eat, then wake up the next day and do it again. It’s no life at all.
Public sector been taking a flogging, just incredible movement by the working class folks power to all them.
When postal workers went on strike in the 80s companies started using fax and the volume of business letters never recovered. They need to be careful that they don’t do something similar again.
Well done to them. They perform an important and difficult job. Made all the harder by profiteering by their new owners. It’s about time they took a stand.
.
Good on them. The media will try to make them look like fools. Just watch.
My Sister works for RM and has received a letter from them basically saying the strikes will KILL Royal Mail and force them to make job cuts etc and basically blaming the union for it.
The company is so out of touch with their employees it’s unreal.
Aaaaaah fuck, my passport forms are currently in the mail. I’m all for industrial action, but talk about time sensitive.
This is terrible news. Who will deliver the Letters of No Confidence?
Is there a part of UK that isn’t striking? Everyday I seem to hear about some new department taking striking action, is it really getting that bad?
Evri has been really good for me and my small business although I do vary between Evri and RM.
When I use Evri to send, I do it via Parcel2Go rather than Evri directly. If a parcel does to walkies or something else happens, it’s then down to P2G to chase and you can speak to them online 24/7
And you might find P2G slightly cheaper as well.
I try to avoid Yodel because, in my area at least, they are REALLY slow and my packages that I send seem to sit in the local distribution centre for days at a time.
Going to have to step up the search for an alternative to sending small packages 1st class. It’s getting ever more expensive and been meaning to look around, even considering DPD for cheap stuff given the costs aren’t that far apart now
So this strike is to align the pay increase with cost of living.
Does that mean my pay should also be raised by the same percent.. unfortunately I don’t get the option to strike.
Also what happens when the cost of living goes down..will they take a pay cut ?