Campaign aims to halt Royal Mail privatisation

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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POSTAL workers appealed to shoppers and workers in Sheffield city centre to support their campaign against privatisation of the Royal Mail.

Representatives of the Communication Workers' Union are driving from John O'Groats to Land's End delivering a giant postcard to protest at the plans.

They took a break from the mission to park up outside Sheffield Town Hall and speak to passersby about the controversial proposals.

The posties are stopping at as many towns and cities as they can while making the journey south to tell the public their concerns about the plans.

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[Phantom]

This is 2 years old init?

[BT2010]

This is 2 years old init?

not quite but it will be soon

[TrueBlueTerrier]

[Privatisationisgood]

Given that I have, yet again, just been told that rules are rules and that customer service is second to said rules, why shouldn't privatisation happen? Competition is good and would help get rid of the dead wood who think "customer service" is the foulest phrase imaginable.

[POSTMAN]

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Given that I have, yet again, just been told that rules are rules and that customer service is second to said rules, why shouldn't privatisation happen? Competition is good and would help get rid of the dead wood who think "customer service" is the foulest phrase imaginable.

Unfortunately whilst welcome this post does not really explain why you think privatisation is good. Okay you have had a problem, but as you have not explained what the problem was or how it was handled then it is difficult to place it any context and decide whether it's a symptom of the drive towards privatisation, or a symptom of a moribund inflexible megalithic organisation digging its heels in. However, my own position is described in the next paragraph.

From a postie that has been here for only 8 years I have frankly found that the further we have moved towards privatisation then the more the rules are enforced and Posties sacked for not following them. For instance posties who knew their customers knew where it was safe to leave parcels, and which neighbours they trusted to take parcels in. Now we are not allowed to use these safe places, and even leaving it with a neighbour is frowned upon and yes Posties have been sacked for doing this.