The answer to virtually any post related costumer service complaint – overworked and understaffed. Don't moan about the postie, it's almost certainly the company's fault. Modernisation? Bloody disaster.

Post service excellent here. 'What's he bought this time?' whenever a CRC parcel comes 🙂 And if needs signature and not in pick it up in town, even on Saturday.

Try parcel force if you want a bad service, on different occaisions:

Signed for when nobody at home
Delivered to wrong address
Someone elses parcel delivered to me
45 min drive to depot to find its not there

Postal Service here is pretty good…post OFFICE on the other hand is awful – theyve reduced 4 dowin into one and know its so busy that its become useless in the day – massive massive queues.

Be terrible if the RM are privatised. Brilliant, brilliant service.

Reasons to strike? Not sure, but dont let it go the way of the FBU strike where the service comes iut in a worse situation than before

Modernisation = more profit?

Is that in the public intrest? It was a public service after all…

Somebody will be better off after all this, but you can bet it won't be the general public or the employees of RM.

The vultures are circling.

Mr Agreeable – Member
Funny you should mention bin-men, that's a classic example of an essential service that's been put out to tender to private companies.

This is happening in Edinburgh at the moment. The binmen went on strike and then onto work-to-rule, so the Council have put it out to tender. They've striked themselves out of jobs, what a bunch of muppets!

Our postman's a c*nt

Letters are now left sitting on the doormats of all the flats in our block instead of bothering to put them through the letterboxes.

Parcels are never delivered unless they're guaranteed before Xam/pm. If it's recorded delivery or just a general parcel, he turns up a day after they were supposed to be delivered with a card saying he tried to deliver it the day before. If you catch him putting the card through the door and ask for the parcel he just mumbles about it being at the depot and runs off.

C*nt.

My next door neighbour is also the local postie. In reply to the comments in this thread about late deliveries etc, this all came about because of management modernisation. The proposed modernisation is about cutting front line postal staff, changes to working hours and changes to the pension. One of the main issues the CWU has is the redundancies – practically all of them will be posties – not management, when most of the management couldn't run a bath. They're also concerned about the changes to their pension plan as management want to move all existing final salary pension workers on to the new defined benefits system.

They've striked themselves out of jobs

Issues with your grammar aside, this is the classic example of the "prisoner's dilemma" that someone mentioned on the overtime thread. If someone else is willing to do your job for £5 an hour and no perks, does that mean you should accept the same conditions?