Tut tut Royal Mail,bitchy bitchy,how low can you go.
Ha,busted,one unlucky DSM has had his,'i love you guys','we've screwed our part of London' e-mail leaked.
Another one you couldn't make up,Mark Higson has written to Royal Mail managers informing them that 'Providing critical support has a priority over all other work in the business!',and that 'You will recall, I wrote to you back in September, explaining that two days' support per week would be the minimum expected level. The need to provide a service for customers relying on us means this can no longer be optional.'
You actually couldn't make this stuff up,dear old Mark Higson Managing Director,Royal Mail Letters has written back to Dave Ward and to be honest,it seems we are going through a pointless 'Dear John' exercise.
Dave Ward yesterday wrote to Mark Higson Managing Director,Royal Mail Letters offering a deal to avoid strike action,saying that 'The offer would help restore customer confidence at a crucial time for the Royal Mail while addressing outstanding problems of job security, work levels, bullying, and reward.'
Postal workers across the UK have voted 3-1 in favour for 'National Industrial action over Royal Mail's failure to reach a national agreement covering the protection of jobs,pay,terms and conditions and the cessation of managerial executive action including all matters arisising out of or in consequence of that dispute'
Government ministers pension funds have gone up from £6.8M last year to nearly £9M this year.It seems the Liberal Democrats have 'unearthed' official figures this week.The increase it seems is due to changes to accounting rules which means the full value is being revealed for the first time.
Damn and blast,seems us posties in London have been found out,managers up and down the country in WTL sessions have let the cat out of the bag.
Thousands of postal workers are set to go on strike this Friday, Saturday and Monday.
I knew it wouldn't last,my last news story was on how Royal Mail are fighting the competition,yes shock horror a news story on RMC praising Royal Mail.
Our so called competitors are throwing strops over Royal Mail's announcement that the price of Mailsort 3 will be reduced by 3%.
Dave Joyce, The CWU National Health, Safety and Environment Officer has written to Royal Mail regarding 'Royal Mail implementing Pegasus Geo Route Revisions and work absorption by executive action without the proper meaningful involvement and consultation with CWU Safety Representatives.'
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The Postal Executive have agreed that a timetable for a national industrial action ballot will be issued when they meet on the 4th August.
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It's all doom and gloom at the moment,but help is at hand as some managers have taken up the mantle in a big way to move the business forward.
Notices were served this afternoon to Royal Mail informing them that the London membership will be taking 3 days strike action next week.
The Union have served Royal Mail with 138 notices for strike action in London next Friday into Saturday.
London posties have delivered a massive yes vote for strike action in pursuance of a national agreement.
The Government's Postal Services Bill has cleared its third reading in the House of Lords and will now pass to the House of Commons.
The Business and Enterprise Committee web forum on the future of the Post Office has now closed
London are being balloted for strike action along with 50 other offices around the country over Royal Mail's cuts in services to the public and their jobs, terms and conditions.
Dave ward has written to Royal Mail HR Director Dale Haddon outlining our pay claim which is due on the 1st April,but in time honored fashion not a penny of it will be spent on easter eggs,but probably baubles and tinsel.
Google street view was launched this week in the UK and RMC users have been busy looking for anything Royal Mail related.
It's been revealed that Mandy has bunged his hoard of cash in a secret trust along with 4 other ministers.
Hmmm TNT are at it again,word is they're threatening to sack 10,000 workers in the Netherlands if they do not accept between 5-15% pay cuts.
Ok,this is getting silly,i'm sure some of this is being made up.
The leech that is TNT seems to be moving fast towards the dodgiest postal operator in the world award.
The door could be open for the FULL privatisation of Royal Mail and the Tories are wetting themselves after examining the Bill in detail.
Crozier's new found friends The Mirror have revealed that the Royal Mail CEO has "built up a Royal Mail pension pot of £1.1million."
More than 30,000 Belgian postal workers will stage an all-out national strike today (Mon 2nd Mar) in protest at privatisation, jobs losses,and a likely squeeze on pay and liberalisation of Europe's mail market in 2011 reports the Guardian.
Peter Mandelson spent £391,000 last year of tax payers money doing up offices for him and his junior ministers at the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory reform according to a report in the Sunday Express.
Government departments since 2002 have used private postal and delivery firms for their mail needs and have payed out nearly £47M to them in the process.
The Leech that is TNT has been successfully opposing the opening-up of its own domestic market while campaigning for full competition in Britain.
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has published the Postal Services Bill, which confirms moves for a partial sell-off of Royal Mail.
Lord Mandelson has introduced the Bill to part privatise the Royal Mail in The House of Lords a day earlier than expected, telling peers it would "make provision for the restructuring of the Royal Mail Group and of the Royal Mail pension plan"
Jane Newell, chairman of the Royal Mail pension trustees, admitted that the company is 'effectively bust' and cannot afford to plug the black hole in its pension fund,which is between £6bn-£9bn depending on what you read.
Privatisation plans for Royal Mail will be introduced in Parliament on Thursday,the issue has caused deep concern at the heart of Government with some Cabinet ministers urging Mr Brown to ditch the plans altogether.
Incredibly Royal Mail CEO Adam Crozier has allegedly lied to a Daily Mirror reporter over Royal Mail cost cutting plans.
Ironic,as i'm writing this there is that very popular TV show on now,where perhaps in the next few days Royal Mail postal workers could give them a run for their money.
Seems RMC could have a rival at last in the message board stakes as The Business and Enterprise Committee has launched a web forum on the future of the Post Office.
Donald Brydon is the new chairman of Royal Mail and has been appointed for three years from March 26 on a salary of £200,000 a year.He has a reputation as a bruiser,and was also called a "a thug" while defending market research group Taylor Nelson Sofres from a £1bn hostile takeover approach when he was chairman.
Mr Brydon said: "The Royal Mail is one of Britain's great organisations and I am honoured to be ask to lead it in the next phase of its continuing modernisation."
The CWU hopes that 'Donald Brydon will be able to adapt to the challenges of the postal sector and succeed to modernise a wholly publicly owned Royal Mail.'
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Leighton and Crozier due to leave,CV's to write,Royal Mail profits up,the £1M a day loss a distant memory,all four arms of Royal Mail making a profit for the 1st time in 20 years,you couldn't make it up...... could you?
So much news so many headlines,where do i start.
Dave Ward has written to Adam Crozier to offer Royal Mail an opportunity to sit down with the Union and reach a new collective agreement on modernisation.
