I can see a few posties on the picket line on TV but we've had letters and a parcel delivered to our home address this morning.
In fact, the parcel was an item ordered from Bournemouth on Tuesday, delivered to Stockport this morning. Yet more excellent service despite the grim faces on the telly.
Anybody else having normal service?

Spoke to our postie this morning, she told me that 'the depot's are out today, we're out tomorrow'.

I needed four hands to count how many times I got asked "thought you were on strike" this morning. Personally I blame the news for not giving you the full story – Mail centres today (indoor staff)/Deliveries tomorrow (outdoor staff).
And to the binmen who's narrowmindedness compelled then to shout "scab" at me from the comfort of their cab, F*** off and get your facts right.
At least save it until tomorrow.

"the binmen who's narrowmindedness compelled then to shout "scab" at me from the comfort of their cab"

I didn't open the mail when it arrived to day for fear of a similar response from the cat.

I'll go and see what CRC have sent me now that's cleared up.

I needed four hands to count how many times I got asked "thought you were on strike" this morning.

Just learn binary, you'll go all the way up to 31 on one hand 😉

*edited to remove dunce mistake, we don't have 8 digits on one hand CK!

Just learn binary, you'll go all the way up to 31 on one hand

😆 😆

Sadly this is how I looked at school when binary reared it's head… 😕

There are 10 types of people in the world.

Those that understand binary and those that don't

Clever!

Processing and distribution are out today from 4am untill 4am tomorrow then the grafters(deliverys) take over,looks like its going to be a busy Saturday,thank god its my day off and I,m in Afan ripping it up!!!!!

Shame that the people that go in are going to prolonge the strike and have to suffer the cold shoulder treatment when there colleagues come back after taking action.We will have a stronger office to fend off cuts in hours when we get back, feel sorry for the weak offices that will be torn to shreds in 2010.

suffer the cold shoulder treatment when there colleagues come back after taking action

Quite the opposite in our office. Less than 25% are CWU members.

Rich, not sure what size office you work from but the CWU have done nothing for us (35 staff) over the years. Yes they agree pay deals but that's about it. At a local level we might as well not exist. All the recent changes – pegasus, later starts, lapsing duties have been pushed forward by the CWU. They even stood in front of us and blatantly lied to us telling us that all these changes were national. Turns out they're not, hence the strikes.

Sitting on the other side of the fence though, I was appalled to find out last night that no one from senior Royal Mail management has been present at the talks. It's OK for them to sit on their arses sending letters telling us how damaging strikes are, but they don't seem to want to get any more involved.

My day off saturday too, thanks goodness, and a weeks AL next week which couldn't come at a better time.

Just in from my 7 hour stint, 19 snuck in, some before we got there,out of an office of 106( Not a militant office)Mood was good feeling as though we had the morale high ground and the sun shone,over dosed on the tea and bacon butties.
Majority of the public were supportive,ready to go back to the picket @ 3pm.

They were all freezing their nuts off outside our sorting office at 5am this morning. Big thumbs up from the warmth of the car of course.

they were outside the chiswick branch this mornin the temp was having a mare finding the parcels for pick up

i did notice a copy of socialist worker in teh back pocket of one striking postie

I never knew there was such in Chiswick. The place looks like a latte drinkers' club.