Postal move may hit jobs, say opponents

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AN EASTWOOD postal worker has slammed plans to privatise the Royal Mail given the green light this week.


A bill was passed by the House of Commons on Wednesday, January 12, to privatise up to 90 per cent of the Royal Mail.

MPs voted in favour of the Coalition government’s proposal but opponents claim it will mean job losses and the closure of Post Offices around the UK.

The Bill will now be passed to the House of Lords for further scrutiny.

Andrew Green, who is the Communication Workers’ Union official for the Eastwood sorting depot, took a petition with 1,500 names from Nottinghamshire residents to 10 Downing Street on the day of the vote.

And union spokesman Darren Glebocki said: “This Government has no public mandate or popular support for the break up and sell off of our postal services.

“These privatisation plans will result in the separation of the Royal Mail from the Post Office network, which would be a fatal step for many local Post Offices.”

Eastwood’s Labour MP Gloria De Piero has backed the union’s fight and welcomed the group of local postal workers to the House of Commons when they handed over the petition.

After meeting the delegation Gloria, who voted against the proposals, said: “I’m deeply concerned about the impact locally in Eastwood.

“People and businesses across our community rely on a decent and efficient service from the Royal Mail, which I fear would be threatened by the dash to profit.

“Selling the whole of the Royal Mail to a private firm could endanger jobs of local postal workers in Eastwood.”

But Broxtowe MP Anna Soubry backed the plans in the vote saying she believed it was the only way to secure the future of Royal Mail and the ‘universal postal system’ – which guarantees deliveries six days a week for the same price anywhere in the country.

“This was also the conclusion of the last Labour Government before the election so it is a bit of a surprise to see their policy change so much,” she added.

“The universal postal service is guaranteed through this which for me was critical. And under the plans the Government has guaranteed the pensions of the postal workers and their pension fund was in serious deficit.

“We’ve also given the commitment that Post Offices will be maintained so we don’t have the sort of widescale closure programme that happened under Labour, certainly in Broxtowe which lost three.”

Delivery firms TNT and DHL have been hinted as possible candidates to take over Royal Mail services, including postal delivery.

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I fugging hate the Labour party. Bollix to the lot of them! Having said that, I don't much like this new shower of coalition sh*t, either -- bunch o' t*ss*rs! And as for the the Tories, it looks very much like they are killing the same turkey twice, i.e. letting the Libdems taste real power, while openly stuffing them from the front and rear.

Mostly every government, or so it seems (to me), has shown us that they are less able to run a country for the benefit of its citizens, without the banks steering them from the rear, and even less so in a service / business capacity. Now, it has been mentioned that a more likely candidate for privatisation would be that of UK Mail.

Personally, I don't agree with the idea that we should be privatised by any of our already established competitors. We're a service, after all. We're not MacDonald's or some service station, we're a helping hand, joining in with all sorts of people, groups, organisations, businesses or whatever. There isn't one product that we're trying to sell. It's a service. It's already out there, and all we would like to do is better it, but we can't because Royal Mail is being run into a wall -- a bit like how crash dummies are.

This, or any other government doesn't give a tinker's t*ss. They haven't got an original idea between them. They're all w*nk*rs, the lot of 'em.

Having said that (about privatisation), it might be an idea not to be privatised entirely by one competitor, or broken up district by district, say, but to perhaps create a 'super conglomerate' that might want to take on a service for everyone rather than cherry-picking the fug out of all and sundry.

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spot on my friend , we are the cogs in the wheel.
however, they are all married to the capitalist system , profits for our friends in high places first and formost.....

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But Broxtowe MP Anna Soubry backed the plans in the vote saying she believed it was the only way to secure the future of Royal Mail and the ‘universal postal system’ – which guarantees deliveries six days a week for the same price anywhere in the country.

If the MP read the Postal bill she would see that six day collections are not garanteed in the long term! her statement makes no sense!

[TrueBlueTerrier]

But Broxtowe MP Anna Soubry backed the plans in the vote saying she believed it was the only way to secure the future of Royal Mail and the ‘universal postal system’ – which guarantees deliveries six days a week for the same price anywhere in the country.

If the MP read the Postal bill she would see that six day collections are not garanteed in the long term! her statement makes no sense!

Lets says that this particular MP has a certain level of "previous" on matters dealing with the postal bill. She certainly spins it to suit her point of view thats for certain.

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Oh it's the old pants on fire MP again.
Good memory teebs.

[Sippin40oz]

lol though she was just being dumb didnt realise she was such a devient politician!