Thursday - September 10, 2009

OH GREAT … MORE STRIKING BY THE POSTAL UNION.

Not bad enough my mail forwarding service in CA. which we have paid $130.00 a year for is lax and send us mail with rebate check more then A YEAR OUT OF DATE. (2007) Not bad enough that our mail forwarding service sends us a jury summons ... JAN. 2008 and mostly no doubt because the dummy never thought to write AIR MAIL on the envelope ... not bad enough all that crap.

Now there’s this.  And I haven’t a clue yet but will check, how it will affect mail leaving the country.
Like I really need the aggro at the freeken moment.

I know this bit of local news won’t interest the many here at BMEWS and so I don’t expect many if any comments. I’m just a mite frustrated and thought I’d take the angst out here. Grumble.

Oh right. That check for a refund we had was for $153.00 and we had 90 days to cash it. It is dated April of 2007. Nice, huh?  Grumble!

Millions of letters stuck in the post as unions create strike rota to keep country’s deliveries paralysed

By Sean Poulter
Last updated at 11:01 AM on 10th September 2009

Tens of millions of letters are sitting undelivered after rolling strikes brought chaos to the postal system.

Some 20,000 Royal Mail workers are on strike, paralysing parts of the network.

The backlog in London alone could run to 20million items. Some families have not received deliveries for ten days.

Millions of items are said to be sitting in sorting offices in the Bristol area, 500,000 in Peterborough and 250,000 in Leeds.

The walkouts will be stepped up over the next few days to affect a vast swathe of the country.

Union leaders claim the backlog is already bigger than in the last national strike in 2007, which cost businesses an estimated £300million.

The strikes are causing serious hardship and inconvenience to consumers and businesses.

Those waiting for credit card statements are receiving them so late they are being hit with penalty charges.

Utility bills are being delayed, bringing warnings of disconnection and legal action. Small firms are unable to complete orders and have been particularly badly hit.

Wildcat strikes have led to a build-up of mail in sorting offices

The postal workers have been going out on strike on a rota basis, with the result that at least one part of the national system is always at a standstill.

This minimises the loss of pay for those involved while maximising the disruption.

They accuse Royal Mail of provoking the action by ‘bullying’ staff over its cost-cutting modernisation plans.

But the company denies this and insists the cuts are vital to stave off losses.

It also says it is time to end a series of costly Spanish Practices dating back to the 1970s, such as allowing a postman to go home if he finishes his round early.

Also in the firing line are automatic overtime if mail volumes reach a certain level, guaranteed overtime at Christmas, and the right to refuse to work outside particular rounds or postcodes.

GREAT MAIL STRIKE OF 09 BUT STAY TUNED FOR MORE AS UNIONS BARE TEETH

Posted by peiper     on 09/10/2009 at 06:05 AM   
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