Bristol postal workers are dealing with a bad situation
I am a postman who works in Bristol mail centre and am replying to an item in the Post.
We all know we need to modernise to stay afloat in a business which has lost 10 per cent of its trade to email and competition.
Royal Mail managers made employees change their breaks to annoy and upset staff, not for operational reasons like they say, but for their own reasons, which are to make staff have to leave their jobs, which means that they have to leave before voluntary redundancies, saving them thousands of pounds, which will go down in the bonuses of bosses, with people leaving through retirement and being sacked.
These duties are not being replaced, thus there is an increased workload for the people left. When we explain this, we are told that you're lucky to have a job.
If you don't like it, we know someone that will.
We know that we're lucky to have jobs in the present climate but Royal Mail, like other firms, are abusing the situation at a whim. Royal Mail managers refuse to address the problems of people not working properly and pick on the people that do. No one wants to go on strike but we're fighting for our rights, which by each week are being changed by management, who seem to find this hilarious at our plight, knowing they're getting high bonuses at our plight, demeaning us at any given chance.
We've now got so many bosses in the mail centre walking around doing nothing it's unbelievable. What a waste of money.
An item appeared in the Post from a gentleman who criticised Royal Mail managers for their inept actions. I and many others would like to say thank you to this gentleman, who actually realised it is not the workforce to blame.
On top of this, we all try to keep our heads up and try hard to supply a good service to the public.
After all, that's why we are there. Our job is to earn a living and supply a good service to you all.
If this is happening to Bristol mail centre, then I guess it must be happening in every mail centre in the country. All I can say is, good luck to every man and woman in Royal Mail.
From a very concerned postman.
3 Comments
by Vic, Bristol
Friday, September 25 2009, 1:16PM
“The situation at the Royal Mail just reinforces the importance of an active and strong trade union. In recent time it has never been more so important as it is now.
There has been a decline in trade union membership generally in this country over recent years, possibly linked to boom times in the economic cycle. Workers should join a union now before it's too late.
The traditional support of the Labour Party by the unions is being seriously re-considered. The more informed and moderate unions are already in discussion with the Conservatives; they can see the future.
If this country had more people in unions, then it would act as a natural check on those in politics and business who would seek to gain at the expense and misery of others.
Join now.”
by Steve, Filton
Thursday, September 24 2009, 10:28PM
“I know you are angry but don't vote ~Tory. They have to wipe out the post office as you know it.”
by Norm, Bristol
Wednesday, September 23 2009, 11:16AM
“It's all part of the destroying Great Britain campaign. Two wars couldn't do it but ever since Margaret Thatcher broke the backbone of the working class who made this country, successive governments have tried to emulate her acheievements. This government run by an unelected crook called Mandelson (yes he does pull Gordans strings) wishes to appease their European bed partners by further destroying all the things that put the Great into Britain. Now it is the turn of the Royal Mail simply because there are overseas competitors chomping at the bit for a piece of the action and partially because we have a government not representative of the British people in any shape or form and the future looks bleak.
The Labour Party died with John Smith, the identities of all paties all merged into one and we now have a parasite government feeding off every scrap they can before running off to sunny climes for a wealthy retirement. It used to be called treason, now its accepted as the norm and it will always be the working class who will suffer for it.”