Does feel like striking in this instance is counter productive. The average person doesn’t need RM these days, majority of stuff can be sent online
And small businesses are turning away from them as they’re so unreliable its hurting them and their customers
If Royal Mail disappeared overnight, I doubt we would miss it. All they deliver to me is junk mail. Anything of value is conducted over the internet, not by “snail mail.”
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Astroturfed within 40 minutes, must be a new record.
RM is fundamentally designed as a publicly owned company. It’s corporate structure wasn’t built with profit in mind like Evri or DPD etc, therefore its margins are incredibly low and a payrise of 10% would mean the company would have its profits slashed by ~90%
Unfortunately RM is no longer a sustainable business and the strikes, though I support the strikers, are driving the process.
The government should not have sold the royal mail and the blame rests mainly at their feet.
It’s an unfortunate situation for all parties and a shame to see such an old institution die this way.
Source: Royal mail spent £6.6 billion on staffing, a 10% rise would cost £660 million, Royal Mail made a £758 million profit meaning the remaining profit would be £98 million.
I back RM frontline staff. DPD n MYHERMES are crap I’ll take RM any day. The owners are greedy Fcuk them
All they deliver to me is stuff I throw away without opening. They have no real function anymore. Get rid.
Screw royal mail.
People can work in Aldi I guess
I know this sub loves a strike. But out of interest how much exactly should what is essentially an unskilled job in an arguably dying sector pay?
>The union representing 112,000 frontline Royal Mail staff is increasingly “gambling with their members’ futures”, a company source has told Sky News
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>the source declared that loss-making Royal Mail was “bleeding” cash and could not afford to raise its “best and final” wage offer beyond the £400m collective hike that was on the table.
Union is gambling by rejecting unfair pay offers?
RM isn’t gambling by offering unfair pay offers for months and realising the losses of the resulting strikes make a reasonable pay offer workable anymore?
Interesting take.
I see posties going around and thinking to myself they should have electric scooters…. Only like 8mph but like to whip up the Rd make it easier for them
But if Royal Mail strike, who will relentlessly deliver all my reams of shiny unsolicited crap from BT, Sky, Domino’s Pizza, Subway, Virgin Media,…
I’ll be going through significantly fewer bin bags, has anyone thought of the poor bin bag companies?
Another reason they are in this state is that they are a total shit show and don’t know how to run a business and what day of the week it is. Been trying for many months to open a business account and each time you speak to someone, its a different excuse.
We will send you a starter pack – sent a bag of bags
We will re send the starter pack – sent a roll of labels
We will re send the starter pack – send a bag of bag ties
Total shower of shit
Strange position to take, threatening their staff’s futures, considering that RM wants to take their employee’s futures away in the first place. That’s why there’s strikes.
It’s a profitable business. Increased pay is definitely affordable. It’s just that the idiots who purchased the Royal Mail in a corrupt deal thought they could gut it and make easy money.
Yeah good luck firing people and expecting to get replacements. RM is finished.
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Does feel like striking in this instance is counter productive. The average person doesn’t need RM these days, majority of stuff can be sent online
And small businesses are turning away from them as they’re so unreliable its hurting them and their customers
If Royal Mail disappeared overnight, I doubt we would miss it. All they deliver to me is junk mail. Anything of value is conducted over the internet, not by “snail mail.”
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Astroturfed within 40 minutes, must be a new record.
RM is fundamentally designed as a publicly owned company. It’s corporate structure wasn’t built with profit in mind like Evri or DPD etc, therefore its margins are incredibly low and a payrise of 10% would mean the company would have its profits slashed by ~90%
Unfortunately RM is no longer a sustainable business and the strikes, though I support the strikers, are driving the process.
The government should not have sold the royal mail and the blame rests mainly at their feet.
It’s an unfortunate situation for all parties and a shame to see such an old institution die this way.
Source: Royal mail spent £6.6 billion on staffing, a 10% rise would cost £660 million, Royal Mail made a £758 million profit meaning the remaining profit would be £98 million.
I back RM frontline staff. DPD n MYHERMES are crap I’ll take RM any day. The owners are greedy Fcuk them
All they deliver to me is stuff I throw away without opening. They have no real function anymore. Get rid.
Screw royal mail.
People can work in Aldi I guess
I know this sub loves a strike. But out of interest how much exactly should what is essentially an unskilled job in an arguably dying sector pay?
>The union representing 112,000 frontline Royal Mail staff is increasingly “gambling with their members’ futures”, a company source has told Sky News
>
>the source declared that loss-making Royal Mail was “bleeding” cash and could not afford to raise its “best and final” wage offer beyond the £400m collective hike that was on the table.
Union is gambling by rejecting unfair pay offers?
RM isn’t gambling by offering unfair pay offers for months and realising the losses of the resulting strikes make a reasonable pay offer workable anymore?
Interesting take.
I see posties going around and thinking to myself they should have electric scooters…. Only like 8mph but like to whip up the Rd make it easier for them
But if Royal Mail strike, who will relentlessly deliver all my reams of shiny unsolicited crap from BT, Sky, Domino’s Pizza, Subway, Virgin Media,…
I’ll be going through significantly fewer bin bags, has anyone thought of the poor bin bag companies?
Another reason they are in this state is that they are a total shit show and don’t know how to run a business and what day of the week it is. Been trying for many months to open a business account and each time you speak to someone, its a different excuse.
We will send you a starter pack – sent a bag of bags
We will re send the starter pack – sent a roll of labels
We will re send the starter pack – send a bag of bag ties
Total shower of shit
Strange position to take, threatening their staff’s futures, considering that RM wants to take their employee’s futures away in the first place. That’s why there’s strikes.
It’s a profitable business. Increased pay is definitely affordable. It’s just that the idiots who purchased the Royal Mail in a corrupt deal thought they could gut it and make easy money.
Yeah good luck firing people and expecting to get replacements. RM is finished.