Thompson's letter to the public

[Halfhappy]

You won’t be able to do 4 days forever as the competitors will have hoovered up all the work by then.

Royal Mail's share if the parcel market is 3 times the size of its next 3 competitors combined. I think it'll take a big hoover.

[Seymour Buts]

Says no compulsory redundancies. Change of mind? Just fibbing? Or VR over subscribed?

I don't understand how it even goes as far as compulsory redundancies....

It sounds like a lot of people applied for VR and not that many are getting it. This is based on comments on here and the VR Poll we have running on another thread - I get it - there's only been 300 votes so far in that poll, but it probably gives a reasonably accurate representation of the state of play with VR....

So how does this even go as far as CR? Anyone that understands redundancy processes please reply....

I wonder if it'll even come to VR to be honest. If 10,000 is the number they're after they recruit that every year and currently have about 11,000 agency staff, so there's plenty to trim (cost free) before anybody gets a payout. It's scaremongering I suspect.

[qwerty2]

The competitors seem to be struggling to cope round our area

Yea I agree they are just ringing doorbell jumping in van then driving off, not even waiting to see if someone’s in!! And the amount of parcels on doorsteps is ridiculous and some left in the rain….
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-63890146

[kazardaimenu]

Will there be a new best and final offer? Sounds like he still wants us out at night delivering biscuits. He also doesn’t mention the absolute shite terms the new recruits are offered.

[kazardaimenu]

You won’t be able to do 4 days forever as the competitors will have hoovered up all the work by then.

Who is out delivering business mail?

[BuddyElf]

Does the 11000 include managers?

[luddite]

COM stated in his motivational speech this morning that he had around 30 out of the 45 duties covered for tomorrow's strike. Sickening. Sections of my office I'm the only one striking amongst grown men giggling like school kids how they're going on the piss all weekend, buying the latest games console, clothes, watches etc. Boasting about all the O/T they're getting clearing the backlog.
f**k 'em, used to be a great place to work now I dread going in.

[kazardaimenu]

Does the 11000 include managers?

Without a doubt.

[posted]

For the strike breakers, bear in mind they're probably counting other parts of the business as well, not just delivery (to fudge the numbers even more).

I know for example that there are a fair few people in Customer Service who came in on the last two days, and there are probably those in all the other back office roles coming in.

So it could very well be there's 11,000 people in, but like half of those are in roles that don't deliver or process any mail.

I thought same too but this time, probably after all the criticism, they've specifically stated 11,000 OPGs.

[Seagull1983]

COM stated in his motivational speech this morning that he had around 30 out of the 45 duties covered for tomorrow's strike. Sickening. Sections of my office I'm the only one striking amongst grown men giggling like school kids how they're going on the piss all weekend, buying the latest games console, clothes, watches etc. Boasting about all the O/T they're getting clearing the backlog.
f**k 'em, used to be a great place to work now I dread going in.

Yeah I’m in same boat. All the strike breakers laughing and joking, talking about the works Christmas do ! Horrible behaviour, and the worst part of it is that they are totally blind to what’s going on. Pathetic.

[POSTPERSON50]

COM stated in his motivational speech this morning that he had around 30 out of the 45 duties covered for tomorrow's strike. Sickening. Sections of my office I'm the only one striking amongst grown men giggling like school kids how they're going on the piss all weekend, buying the latest games console, clothes, watches etc. Boasting about all the O/T they're getting clearing the backlog.
f**k 'em, used to be a great place to work now I dread going in.

Yeah I’m in same boat. All the strike breakers laughing and joking, talking about the works Christmas do ! Horrible behaviour, and the worst part of it is that they are totally blind to what’s going on. Pathetic.

Remember, some people would sell their granny for a grand.

Nationwide though, it's been a very commendable effort with a huge majority supporting the strikes and staying out.

[daveyeff]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFbfagX6/ our manager say strikes are not impacting. i think he's talking bollox

[pieoftheday]

an-open-letter-to-our-customers-8-december-2022.pdf is it showing?

It is now

[enskied]

Does the 11000 include managers?

It includes every one off sick, on maternity/paternity on a day off. It includes you having a piss in a bush

[k979aaa]

Did he write it himself or did he copy it of a white board or just Dictate again like he is use to!