02-10-2009, 12:31 PM
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Postal service
The headlines on our local newspaper today say we should post our Christmas cards now to ensure delivery for Christmas!
Our postal workers have been on strike on and off since July and the public's patience is wearing thin.http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homep...l/article.html
Important hospital and other appointments and documents are not being delivered and may be going astray ......not what you'd expect in the 21st century
I have three birthdays this month and am in two minds whether to post birthday cards or not ......it just isn't the same receiving a card after one's birthday
I assume these strikes are covering all the UK, how is it in your area?
02-10-2009, 01:10 PM
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Re: Postal service
No strikes here but the service is poor. It's 1.10 now and we haven't had today's delivery. Don't know how people can run businesses like that.It's not the postie's fault - our lad is lovely but he is being mucked about like crazy with his hours. He used to work early till lunchtime, allowing his wife to work in the afternoons whilst he watched the children - they've had to change their lives completely. I',m not sure who is supposed to be gaining from this - with the threat that first class postage will go to 33p ............
02-10-2009, 01:53 PM
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Re: Postal service
Originally Posted by dinahsmum
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No strikes here but the service is poor. It's 1.10 now and we haven't had today's delivery. Don't know how people can run businesses like that.It's not the postie's fault - our lad is lovely but he is being mucked about like crazy with his hours. He used to work early till lunchtime, allowing his wife to work in the afternoons whilst he watched the children - they've had to change their lives completely. I',m not sure who is supposed to be gaining from this - with the threat that first class postage will go to 33p ............
I think you'll find 1st Class Post is 39p now, DM.
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/j...diaId=89000749
02-10-2009, 02:21 PM
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By striking the postal workers are surely digging there own graves by prompting the population to find alternative methods of delivering letters and parcels.My post doesn't arrive until after lunch.
Years ago when Dad was working for a particular company in Derbyshire it wasn't uncommon for him to receive a package by the second post which had been posted in Glasgow that morning .
The postal service is a shadow of what it used to be.
02-10-2009, 04:28 PM
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Not that it's any consolation, but the post here isn't what it used to be either. When I was growing up, we had two residential deliveries and three business ones: 8 and 11 am and 2 pm. Now it's one only; I often don't get mail at home until after 5 pm!! And rateswill be going up again for first class mail ...
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