Post Office plays hardball in wage negotiations - tells union it will retrench 6,000 workers

I don't have sympathy for post office workers. The current situation is the result of that prolonged strike in 2014. Months without deliveries will be the final nail in the coffin of an already dying entity
 
deweyzeph said:
It's not just mismanagement, the Post Office has become completely irrelevant in this digital age.
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In this digital age, "The Royal Mail" has remained an absolute gem in the UK. A working postal service has great benefits
 
Why is it that every Post Office has its door held open by a box of Typex paper?

Then you need to walk around and look at all the bits of cardboard sticky taped to the wall to see what's working or not working.

And then the kicker, when you get to the front of the queue you need to fight with an empty bic ballpoint that has been strapped to a piece of string to squeeze out one last bit of ink.
 
r00igev@@r said:
Why is it that every Post Office has its door held open by a box of Typex paper?

Then you need to walk around and look at all the bits of cardboard sticky taped to the wall to see what's working or not working.

And then the kicker, when you get to the front of the queue you need to fight with an empty bic ballpoint that has been strapped to a piece of string to squeeze out one last bit of ink.
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You dont take your own pen? :eek:
 
deweyzeph said:
It's not just mismanagement, the Post Office has become completely irrelevant in this digital age.
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Royal Mail in the UK still delivers 29 million letters a day.

Personally I would be happy to never receive another physical letter again but most countries still use their regular post office for parcells.
 
Cray said:
Royal Mail in the UK still delivers 29 million letters a day.

Personally I would be happy to never receive another physical letter again but most countries still use their regular post office for parcells.
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@deweyzeph is fortunate to live in Wakanda. Unfortunately Joe Soap living in the sticks in rural SA doesn't have access to emails via a super fast fibre connection. His parcels don't get delivered by drone either :(
 
Cray said:
Royal Mail in the UK still delivers 29 million letters a day.

Personally I would be happy to never receive another physical letter again but most countries still use their regular post office for parcells.
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That SHOULD have been the Post Offices main thrust over a decade ago... be the preferred choice for delivery of parcels below a certain size. Not legislate the requirement but make the service work and cheap (but cost reflective for the PO) so that it would make no sense to use a courier company. And the PO had all the opportunities to do that given their network of branches and sorting centres and and and... but as is usually the case with anything the ANC touches, they just fscked it up.
 
Heart breaking! I remember collecting the post from the post office in a box. I had a saving book! So sad. One by one.
 
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