...to set up their own Postal Service.

Why work for someone at all if they treat you like shit?

My recent Amazon deliveries have arrived via Citylink, and the service has been utterly, UTTERLY crap. Even though I know they haven't been within miles of my home (I would see them from my workroom window) deliveries NEVER arrive on the day that their tracking website promises. Instead, they post a message that 'delivery was attempted but there was no-one there to receive the package'

Our General Manager said that when we opened, 95% of our deliveries were carried out by RM. It's now significantly less than 50% and dropping fast. The last time the posties threw a strop we used other carriers on a temporary basis. They did such a good job that we renewed their contract and told RM to get to.

I had a note through the door to pick up a parcel last week and went to the collection office the next morning before work.

Had to queue in a line of ten punters.

Four RM staff standing chatting about "professional standards" they must adhere to - not serving anyone.

One RM staff sitting by a phone - phone rings "I can't help you Sir, there are clients in the office who must take priority", puts phone down, does nothing, waits, phone rings "I can't help.....".

Only ONE of six RM staff actually doing any work. Five doing nothing but talking about it.

I get to the front of the queue - guy looks art my card and without looking for the parcel "You can't collect that yet - it's not been 24 hours"; I reply "it's been about 23 hours, please look, the package may be here"; response, "no sir, I'm not looking, you have to wait 24 hours".

Me..."OK, I'll come back tomorrow". RM staff "No Sir, we're on strike tomorrow".

Took me almost a week to get my parcel.

At the moment in my bit of sunny London we're still suffering from all the previous RM messing about over the past few weeks. In the past 4 weeks I've only got one copy of Autosport and that wasn't even the oldest one. I calculate that we're still running at least a week behind. And if that isn't bad enough, we only seem to get post every other day. Though something strange is afoot as last Sunday there was a delivery!

Had problems with ShittyLink before. One day they tried to deliver something and I wasn't in, so they left a card. The next day they tried again and left a card, though this time I was in! So then I called and said I'd pick it up from the depot the next day (Saturday). So off I went to pick it up from the depot... and was told it was on the van. So I waited around a few hours at home until I was pretty sure their delivery slot was up (1pm) and went out. Got back to find a card again.

So then waited in all day, and saw a van go past with the driver giving my side of the street a bare glance. That was then described by the online tracking as an attempted delivery. So I called up and asked how someone can attempt a delivery without even slowing down, as their excuse was that the driver couldn't find the doorbell. Well no-one else has ever had that problem. So a few hours later said driver shows up with the parcel, but feigns ignorance when I congratulated him on learning how to use a doorbell.

If you (like me) have suffered at the hands of Royal Mail - come join us on http://www.rubbishroyalmail.co.uk

My business has been all but ruined by the Royal Mail strikes - I deal heavily in low value items that can't easily (or cheaply!) be couriered.

It's a new forum, so posting is encouraged - there are no ads also. I won't make a penny of of this!

See you there,

MailHater

Why dont amazon go to hermes they use self employed couriers who leave a card with there own number on for re-delivery, they also will not leave on doorstep in veiw of everyone !!!!!!!!!!!

We post men (sorry persons) are not striking over pay if we were going to do that we would have done so months ago when we were told that we were having a pay freeze which funnily happened at the same time that managers were getting bonuses between four and nine thousand depending on their grade.

We are striking to protect the service which due to insane cost cutting exercises and chaos management is gradually going down hill. This is Royal Mails modernisation, the staff and the union want proper modernisation which includes equipment that works, not the scooters, rickshaws (yes really) and huge trolleys (what happens when a push chair comes the other way) that some idiot who has never done the job before has designed and wasted thousands on.

Our office has just gone through some modernisation using a computer system that changes all of the walks and cuts some out (you get the result you want depending on the information you put in). This system is supposed to make our walks to full capacity so no one has spare time (no one has anyway) yet, we have already had our saving figures for next year meaning more job hours cut from the office. If we have already been cut to the bone who does the extra work?!?

As for delayed mail building up in offices around the country this is strike mail, now the staff want to get it out as soon as possible but unfortunately the management view point is leave it there we have already been fined for that so no rush.

All any postie wants to do is go out get the job done and have one day without fiddled figures harrasment and ignorant press and people commenting on something that they really have no clue about.