Heads up - Royal Mail strikes in November called off.

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Just for those worried about postal services being disrupted next month.

Planned strikes by Royal Mail workers over the next two weeks have been called off following an apparent legal challenge by the company.
The Communications Workers Union (CWU) said on Sunday it had withdrawn walkouts due on 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10 November.

 

[the black fox]

But there planning a bigger strike , shoot yourself in the foot strike really .. they will lose customers through it and that’s a viscous circle

 

[welshwizard645]

Planning Black Friday and Cyber Monday strikes. That and with the price of stamps rising significantly, means fewer people using Royal Mail.

It's like Turkeys voting for Christmas.

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

Coming on top of the Horizon disaster, it's another indication that splitting up and privatising the GPO was a really bad idea.

 

[Milo King]

The Horizon problem was a Post Office issue.

The Post office and Royal Mail are two different companies.

The Post office is not involved with this dispute.

 

[robj20]

We've stopped using them completely at work I imagine others are doing the same.

Shame there is no recourse either my son missed an important hospital appointment due to delayed post. Its unacceptable for such a crucial service.
Wish the NHS would also send emails.

 

[welshwizard645]

We've stopped using them completely at work I imagine others are doing the same.

Shame there is no recourse either my son missed an important hospital appointment due to delayed post. Its unacceptable for such a crucial service.
Wish the NHS would also send emails.

I got an appointment letter this morning dated 8 September for 19th October for a diabetic eye screen. Having only just been 2 weeks ago I started panicking that I was going blind before noticing the date.....

 

[Sangoma]

But there planning a bigger strike , shoot yourself in the foot strike really .. they will lose customers through it and that’s a viscous circle

They have already, we order a lot online, and most people have changed to couriers, so much so the postie commented that we hadn't had many parcels lately, and I said we have, just not from RM.

It's a pity, we had been gradually going back to them since they started parcel pick-ups, but now won't use them again.

Rather like BA, we will never use them again, they always go on strike in the summer holidays, and even if they have nothing planned, it is just not worth the risk.

Only KLM now

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

The Horizon problem was a Post Office issue.

The Post office and Royal Mail are two different companies.

The Post office is not involved with this dispute.

Perhaps, if you read what I wrote, you'd have understood that I was talking about the General Post Office (GPO): the organisation that provided postal and telecommunications services until 1969.

Renamed as The Post Office and converted to a state owned company, it was dismembered by Thatcher and her cronies into British Telecommunications, with the remainder becoming (eventually) Royal Mail and Post Office Counters.

My general point was that the system had worked fine since 1516 and then the tories came along and messed it up, as they so often do.

 

[Pound Coin]

Perhaps, if you read what I wrote, you'd have understood that I was talking about the General Post Office (GPO): the organisation that provided postal and telecommunications services until 1969.

Renamed as The Post Office and converted to a state owned company, it was dismembered by Thatcher and her cronies into British Telecommunications, with the remainder becoming (eventually) Royal Mail and Post Office Counters.

My general point was that the system had worked fine since 1516 and then the tories came along and messed it up, as they so often do.

It is astounding that a system the used people on horses and on foot to provide the service isn't still doing that now.

(I think it is the wrong general point. The general point is that attempting to make money in this way messes up services.)

 

[ecoleman]

Planning Black Friday and Cyber Monday strikes. That and with the price of stamps rising significantly, means fewer people using Royal Mail.

It's like Turkeys voting for Christmas.

It certainly is.

We've continued to use them during the strike action since they started in September in the hopes that they sort out their issues and get back to work but with no movement in negotiations, we are now getting quotes from other couriers. I know from a business forum that I'm a member of that many business are doing the same thing now. We've had enough. Prices are continually going up but the service is getting worse and worse.

We spend what I would call a significant amount of money with Royal Mail each year and yet we are a only small business. If they don't sort their s*** out soon, they'll become irrelevant and disappear.