Update on Royal Mail and CWU in run up to General Election

[Mr Rush]

Postmen and women received an average of £267 for election mail delivery in the 2017 General Election.

I don't believe that figure reported as an average. Isn't it likely that areas getting 6p per item are throwing off the average when many may be as low as 2p? The mean value would actually represent what most people got.

Sounds like bollox to me too, 1300 calls total on our "buddy" duty,we shared the payments (2p/item at our office) equally and was more like £120 each !

For the EU election this year, I did over 800 doors on a 3.5 hour duty with 5 sets of unaddressed leaflets at 6p an item. Even though you had more calls than me, the substantially higher rate I was on throws the average off in favour of a figure that fits Royal Mail's PR. You'd get the same skewed result if you looked at the average earnings of RM eployees - Rico's gravitational field pulls the figure upwards.

[Celgar]

The payment values you get for delivering poll cards & election materials are negotiated locally by your union rep so it depends on how good a negotiator your rep is. I think we got five or six pence per item last time but can't remember exactly. I'm not looking forward to doing them at Xmas time at all but it is obvious that the house of parliament is at a stalemate so it had to be either an election or a second referendum. Both of these choices could result in ending up back where we are now. It really is a proper mess.

That's misinformation. The payments where negotiated years ago by whoever was the rep at that time and have stayed the same for years. Said on here before they are totally unfair. It should be the same payment per item for every office.

A number of years ago the Christmas bonuses were different in every DO depending on what the local rep could negotiate. It is different now of course with everyone getting the same.