Uk Postal Strike

[LeperMessiah26]

Understandable? Whats understandable about them holding the country to ransom when they feel like they want more money?!!

Tell that to the person who is waiting for Cancer results,or such as...oh,we couldnt deliver that,as we dont earn enough!!

Everyone wants more money...the posties want to think themselves lucky they are not earning minimum wage like i do....£5.35 to be responsible for peoples lives...puts it in perspective doesnt it?

They deliver post...not on time i may add....never smile or say anything to you....and they think they are heroes!!

Bunch of Greedy tossers is all i can say...

My main gripe other than the above..is that when they win...and they will....it gives them free reign to do it whenever they want.....dont pay us? we Strike....simple...and the Government will back down...so they will keep doing it whenever they feel like it...where will it stop?

[metmum]

There not on as much money as you seem to think they are and my post is always delivered on time. Maybe you have a crap postman. I know the recent deal works out about £5 more in their pay packet a week at the moment but the condition is they take on extra hours and so many will lose their jobs. When they worked the pay deal out with the extra hours, it actually meant they would be £30 per week worse off. Nobody is going to vote for a pay cut of that much.

Also I don't know abut your area but in this area the majority of the PO will be shut. The Government keep baning on about having respect for your community but in a lot of the small towns and villages the PO is the community.

And the Government very rarely back, it sometimes looks like they have but they then sneak things in. My husband's a social worker and they went on strike last year because the Government wanted to change their pensions. They supposedly backed down but they changed them bit by bit and changed the wording of the deal, so their actually back to where they were last year. This is all about selling off the PO service to a private company. You watch one of their mates will make a ridiculous offer for it.

[WildarmsRogue]

Strikes are terrible sometimes. My friend's school was on strike for months and never had to go to school but still graduated due to an excess amount of complaints of not obtaining a diploma.

[wolfway]

this sux. i bought an item from ebay, after more than a week wondering why it is not here yet... but now i read that they've been on a strike the whole week..

stupid strikes. i was in paris with my school this week, and had to (literally) walk about 1/3 of paris' diameter in a few hours, because t he fucking metros didn't work properly. now this

[metmum]

There still behind as well. Been speaking to our postie this week who is livid because the sorting offices are taking there time to catch up, they have not put on extra people or anything like that, so he's getting it in the neck even though he can't do anything about it. He reckons it could be 3 weeks before they catch up at the rate they're going.