“man on the inside,

you are talking utter rubbish. it is not the union that is speeding up the end of this company it is a management team that is inept and rotten from the top downwards. all that about london posties finishing two hours early every day is rubbish. i saw this with my own eyes when i was up there with friends and post was regularly arriving at 2 or 3 in the afternoons. magagement regulalry bully and intimidate people in to working past their time without paying overtime because they've made duties so big that people are struggling to get them done within their time. why otherwise would the royal mail have rejected the unions call for a independent enquiry in to bullying in royal mail if they had nothing to hide?

as for the vote, if people don't use their right to vote the you have to assume that proportionately they would have to vote the same way as those that did. just for the record though i know a number of people that didn't vote but still came out on strike. because they know that due bungling management incompetence we will be on the dole if we lose this dispute-strike or no strike, the management are to blame for this dispute as they seem determined to take every oportunity to provoke us. they were warned continuously about industrial action from about 18 months ago if they continued to attack our terms and conditions, but they continued to bury their heads in the sand and we were left with little choice. liking it and lumping it was not an option because their business plan would have driven all the business to the competition. we have got royal mail around the negotiating table thanks to the fact that union members have had enough of being put upon by the idiots that run royal mail. they're finally startin to see sense, but how long this will last for god only knows”

“Ray, Bristol. Like I said THIS YEAR, you yourself qouted last years figures. Just to remind you the two you mention also turned the company around so all four parts of it made a profit for the first time in twenty years. Face Facts, Joe Public are not prepared to use tax payers money to prop up this company anymore, it needs to stand and compete on its own, The CWU are just speeding up the end. And clearly you support them all on the dole. Well Done.”

“Man on the inside ( I doubt it ) you say "nobody in the bussines has had a pay rise this year"being on the inside, I am surprised that you forgot that your boss,Adam Crozier's total package last year was 1.25 million pounds,and for overseeing the worst service offered to the public for 20 years,last year he recieved a performance bonus of £469,000,his salary rose by 26% to 629,000 pounds,and recieved a pension and benefits payment of £158,000,I am aware these figures sound like a game of monopoly,but when your job is to run Royal mail into the ground,ready for the City fat cats to make a killing,these are the figures you recieve.”

“Where's Anne when you need here?”

“Sssshhhhh LD...don't mention the 'A' word!

She'll only appear on here banging on about slander/libel, making up random unlrealted statistics and then finally copy and pasting the whole of CWU website onto this section!”

“To answer Marks question as to why Bristol has had so many strikes, Militant Union Mark. Trying to make a name for themselves in HQ. They object to any change and support London where postman still go home early and dont work full hours. Royal Mail are not asking for Blood, Nobody in the business has had a pay rise this year, nobody is getting a bonus. Most of us are just glad to be in work. And the vast majority didnt support a national strike or the strikes in Bristol. Some offices the vote was won by one vote, which then brought the operation to its knees. Shameful way to behave to customers and the public, and the CWU still push for a four day week, Crazy. They argue bullying by Managers but then offer no evidence to the company to support this. The CWU will kill this company for the sake of trying to score political points and that is all they will achieve. The workers on the dole. Royal Mail has never made anyone redundant. It actually pays a lot of money for people to go part time or leave the business. Maybe redundancy would make most of them realise what they have, a job that pays around £80 a day.”

“Mark - I'm sure Anne will be here in a minute to tell you”

“Excuse my ignorance, but can someone tell me please what the difference between the many recent strikes held in the Bristol region and this national strike is ?

Wondering why we have been hit by so many strikes in this region already, when the national vote has only just taken place”

“I hope they posted the offer in the mail!!

Do they really not think that their actions could mean the end of the postal service completely?”

“So now we know,when Royal Mail managment reach their objetive in running down the service ready for privatisation,firms such as DHL will charge us £5.20 to post a letter,support Royal Mail management at your peril.”