If you don't get mail on a non strike day ?

[wdo1256]

Dear Customer

In my office, as punishment for going on strike, nobody is allowed to claim any overtime for delivering mail later than there finishing time.
This means that due to the volume of mail that in some cases people are taking out half a delivery on the first day after the strike and the second half the next day and gradually working in the mail over the week before the next strike.
Rather than pay postmen/women overtime, which would be one or two hours,
They are added further delaying to mail. This is a part of Royal Mail’s customer care plan.


On my delivery many customers have asked my reason for going on strike.
I have written them down and hope that you can take time to read it.
Beware it is long.



Reason’s for voting yes

I would firstly like to apologise to members of the public for the inconvenience caused by the industrial action and state that this is the last resort. Nobody wants to strike, I have children and know that this xmas won’t be great but I tell them that you have to stand up to bullies.

There are many reasons why I voted yes, such as the change of pension from a final salary scheme. Royal Mail took a pensions holiday while staff continued paying into it and Adam Crozier and the top 150 managers have made sure that they do not have the same pension as me.

Feelings between staff and management have deteriorated over the past 18 months as changes are being forced without much thought.
Deliveries have been increased by a system called Pegasus, which has been used incorrectly as a tool to cut jobs and in many cases make the walks impossible to complete in the 3 and a half hour time scale.
Most postal staff on deliveries don’t finish as early as is suggested in the Hooper report. This report was correct when it was made a few years ago.

In my office, we have had the following changes since 2007;
We start later than before.
We no longer sort mail during the night.
We work short and long days and absorb extra walks during the summer when mail volumes are light.
We have lost 5% - 10% of actual duties and a number of full time duties have been reduced to part time.
All new starters are part time and no one has been made full time for a number of years.
I would lie if I said that my office has embraced these changes, but we have accepted them, and try to carry out this new way of working to the best of our abilities.
After all these changes, Royal Mail has informed my office that next year our office needs to cut its’ budget /workforce by another 8%.
We have incurred enough cuts over the past 3 years and cannot take another one.

Part of the deal in 2007 was that modernisation of the business would also be included. We are still waiting for the walk sequencing mail which would reduce the time spent sorting the mail in the morning. As we are still waiting for this new machinery I spend a majority of my time on the IPS (inward primary sorting). With so few full time staff left I’m sorting mail on the IPS longer each morning up to 2hr 30mins. Leading up to Christmas this amount of time will be longer. All this before I get the chance to start sorting mail for my individual walk. This leads me to finishing over my scheduled finishing time.

When I try to book overtime the manager will try to bully or intimidated me, he threatens me, it’s so bad in my office that people who finish later than their finishing time will not go into the office as they don’t want the conflict.
Managers resort to bullying tactics because they are under pressure to keep their budgets to a minimum. The people at the top demand a reduction in the budget from every office up and down the country. By the time this message gets down to the delivery office they will do anything to keep their budget low. It’s a case of easier to be a bully than be bullied. Plus I suspect that a healthy bonus along the line acts as a good incentive.
Managers have been suspended for manipulated quality of service figures. They discovered where the panellist live and then ensured that they receive a first class service while everyone else in the area suffers. Is this the bonus culture creeping in?

I can’t see a good future for the public if Royal Mail senior managers get their way changing the company into one solely to generate profits for bonus. They shout 10% cuts each year without thinking about the impact when it filters down.


Most people get their mail delivered later than the old second delivery. No Sunday collections, the cull of the local post office. Packets are left for ages as they are not included in any quality checks. Also who introduced the charge of £1 for an underpaid item by 1p.



This company has lacked investment for a number of years and is paying the price as we are miles behind other countries.
We have Adam Crozier who is the second highest paid civil servant in the country who can only say modernisation and we want staff to work their hours. How can a PR man from the FA who was into image and WAGs be qualified to run a national company? He got into Royal Mail through his friendship with Allan Leighton.
Is he so high up that he can’t or won’t hear what his staff are saying regarding bullying, Or is bullying staff OK as long as it gets results?

The government can bail out banks to the tune of billions but won’t put money into a business that they own and have taken profits from. Mr Mandelson spends his time repeating parrot fashion statements from Royal Mail, still bitter and twisted that he didn’t get his way with the part privatisation plan.

Last year Royal Mail made 321 million in profits without most of the new technology such as the new walk sequencing mail. Future profits once the new machinery is in place would be beneficial to the government, not an investment group if part privatised.

Regards and thank you for your time

[Pat Ostman]

The government can bail out banks to the tune of billions

Change to trillions

[tailfly12]

Well written.

[postmanx]

Very Good going up on notice board first thing !!! anyone agree this is what most of us are putting up with!!