[S.A.J]

Who else is ped off with royal mail workers at the mo??

I AM!!

I must have at least £5-600 worth of cheques stuck in the system. Not much money has come in since last Tuesday and not expecting much till the weekend at the earliest!

With more strike action planned right up till Christmas I might have to give up my evenings again and go out collecting just to get some money in!!

Rant over with!!

[matt]

how long are they on strike for ?? ? ?

[supernova77]

Yeah I'm in the same situation... It's a nightmare. I'm skint at the moment 

Andy

[S.A.J]

how long are they on strike for ?? ? ?

They are supposed to be back to work tomorrow from 12pm, with a weeks worth of post to get through!

More strike action planned for next week according to the news reports

[nat]

i have some caught up in the system, i also have 2 big ones from commercial customers so hopefully i can have them by the end of the week, they rekon it could take up to 3/4 weeks to get some post....bloody crazy!!

[Moderator David@stives]

I have a couple of grand stuck in the post, at least i cant spend it while its there

[williamx]

Try telephoning your customer the night befoire you clean them and get them to leave a cheque or cash under a mat or something.

 

[johnny_h]

the less we rely on the post the better i got a couple of hundred quid out there gonna get my customers to stop sending cheques it will  either have to be left out or paid via the net from now on 

[Russell Macdonald]

Who else is ped off with royal mail workers at the mo??

I AM!!

I must have at least £5-600 worth of cheques stuck in the system. Not much money has come in since last Tuesday and not expecting much till the weekend at the earliest!

With more strike action planned right up till Christmas I might have to give up my evenings again and go out collecting just to get some money in!!

Rant over with!!

If you was a posty & was told they are going to take £20,000 out of you pension i'm sure you
would be unhappy & strike. Oh & by the way, the managers pension is safe.

[Paul Coleman]

Who else is ped off with royal mail workers at the mo??

I AM!!

I must have at least £5-600 worth of cheques stuck in the system. Not much money has come in since last Tuesday and not expecting much till the weekend at the earliest!

With more strike action planned right up till Christmas I might have to give up my evenings again and go out collecting just to get some money in!!

Rant over with!!

I've got a few hundred pounds worth stuck there as well.  If this goes on for a while, I will make an extra effort to get myt customers paying electronically.  That will be a bit of regular business lost forever to the postal system.  So my bit isn't much but multiply that by the number of small businesses in this country and it stacks up to quite a bit.

However, I don't blame the workers.  I've worked in environments like that and I know the sort of stuff that goes on.  It can be taken very personally between workers and management.  Sometimes the original issues get forgotten about and it just becomes a way of both sides trying to save face.
I think Japan has (had?) a better way.  Arbitration was a step of first resort rather than last resort.  The management would put their offer and strings to the arbitrators.  The workers would put theirs.  The arbitrators would then have to choose one or the other.  It ensured that everyone was fairly reasonable with their demands.  Of course for it to work, the arbitrators would have to be very carefully selected and would have to be trusted by both sides.

[nat]

Who else is ped off with royal mail workers at the mo??

I AM!!

I must have at least £5-600 worth of cheques stuck in the system. Not much money has come in since last Tuesday and not expecting much till the weekend at the earliest!

With more strike action planned right up till Christmas I might have to give up my evenings again and go out collecting just to get some money in!!

Rant over with!!

If you was a posty & was told they are going to take £20,000 out of you pension i'm sure you
would be unhappy & strike. Oh & by the way, the managers pension is safe.

Its not Macc, my uncle is a reginal manager and he is having to take a 20000 cut, he is also working in sorting post at the mo as well to try and keep things moving a little (with other higher staff obviously, not on his own  )

[Sir Squeaky]

I can't believe some of you have so much in the post.

Is no-one ever in where you live?
I might have a couple of tenners on the way if I'm lucky.

Then again, I might not.
I can't remember who owes what, but it's never more than £100.

[CLEANING MAN]

sack the lot   

[Paul Coleman]

I can't believe some of you have so much in the post.

Is no-one ever in where you live?
I might have a couple of tenners on the way if I'm lucky.

Then again, I might not.
I can't remember who owes what, but it's never more than £100.

Blimey that's good going Roger.  I have been owed as much as a grand before but more typically it's 3 - 500.

[MNWC]

Im waiting for loads of supplies ive been waiting for some more filters for my ro for over a week now.....

my particle filter is going chocolate brown.... :

Marcus 

[nat]

i have edited this as i don't want to look like i'm gloating, shouldn't of added figures my appolgies

[matt]

I can't believe some of you have so much in the post.

Is no-one ever in where you live?
I might have a couple of tenners on the way if I'm lucky.

Then again, I might not.
I can't remember who owes what, but it's never more than £100.

Rog, you of course dont earn 500 quid a day, when you join the big earners, you'll know how it is 

[Russell Macdonald]

Who else is ped off with royal mail workers at the mo??

I AM!!

I must have at least £5-600 worth of cheques stuck in the system. Not much money has come in since last Tuesday and not expecting much till the weekend at the earliest!

With more strike action planned right up till Christmas I might have to give up my evenings again and go out collecting just to get some money in!!

Rant over with!!

If you was a posty & was told they are going to take £20,000 out of you pension i'm sure you
would be unhappy & strike. Oh & by the way, the managers pension is safe.

Its not Macc, my uncle is a reginal manager and he is having to take a 20000 cut, he is also working in sorting post at the mo as well to try and keep things moving a little (with other higher staff obviously, not on his own  )

Ok, sorry, i've been corrected.  

I would say no & strike too.

I've now got about £1000 out.  

Funny though how the MP's pension fund was short not long ago & they & the government
voted the tax payer will make up the short fall.  

[Feen]

Personally, I don't have much outstanding. However, I will try to get more electronic payments in the next few weeks. As someone said, this will be business lost to the Royal Mail forever. Not entirely a good thing that. Just think how cheap and convenient this service is at times. Imagine your Granny lives on Skye and you want to send her a picture of your kids. She hasn't got a computer. 30 or 40p gets it there. If this goes on too long, the whole system will break down. For ever. BTW I'm entirely on the side of the workers here. It seems to me the management have another agenda.

[Grafters Cleaning Services]

same here, no cheques for 3 days