Google:The posties friend

Google street view was launched this week in the UK and RMC users have been busy looking for anything Royal Mail related.

Pouch boxes,posties on their rounds,Royal Mail buildings and vans have all been found.

But one user has found something quite unbelievable and shows that Google,really is the posties friend.

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Mandelson hides his ca$h

It's been revealed that Mandy has bunged his hoard of cash in a secret trust along with 4 other ministers.

And that he will also receive a European Commission pension at the age of 65 for around 4 years work.

Accountants believe that Lord Mandelson must have assets worth at least £500,000 and probably more than £1 million to make it worthwhile setting up a complicated trust.

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TNT accused of bullying workforce

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.

TNT are promising not to make any compulsory redundancies for three years but only if workers take the cut.

A spokeswoman for TNT declined to say whether the group would use similar tactics to cut British postal workers' pay if it bought a 30% stake in Royal Mail.

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Crozier attacks TNT for poaching

Ok,this is getting silly,i'm sure some of this is being made up.

Our leechy friends TNT have been trying to poach the big clients of our parcel arm GLS claiming that they might as well come to TNT as GLS will be owned by TNT anyway soon.

Adam Crozier has sent an e-mail to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (Berr) demanding that TNT are prevented from further damaging Royal Mail.

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Dodgy TNT in tax scam

The leech that is TNT seems to be moving fast towards the dodgiest postal operator in the world award.

Not only have they scammed the delay in opening their postal market in their own country,and stopped the minimum wage for postal workers in Germany,they have now been forced to pay back tens of millions of pounds in unpaid tax and have admitted that its staff acted illegally.

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49.9%

The door could be open for the FULL privatisation of Royal Mail and the Tories are wetting themselves after examining the Bill in detail.

The bill has a paragraph which says "a company is publicly owned if the Crown owned more than half of it (directly or indirectly)" ,which would mean a future Conservative Government would be able to privatise up to 49.9% of the Royal Mail without further legislation.

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Crozier's £1M pension pot

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."

And that "Royal Mail have also paid at least £1million in to a private pension scheme for him since he joined in 2003. And have also made payments to him of at least £348,000 in lieu of other pension contributions."

Crozier is one of only 150 Royal Mail managers granted entry to the gold plated pension scheme.

Our own pension scheme had a '13-year pension holiday' which has played a big part of the state it is in now.

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Belgian postal workers strike against privatisation

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.

The strike will be followed by two further days of disruption as Belgian unions are incensed that Danish Post is selling its 24.9% stake in La Poste to private equity firm CVC Partners for €373m (£330m) – earning a profit of more than €200m in three years.

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Mandelson'£ £391,000 office makeover

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.

£20,000 was spent on his office before he came back to the cabinet but Mandy wasn't impressed and spent a further £57,000 redoing it to his liking.

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Government gives £47M to Royal Mail's competitors

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.

Even Lord Mandelson’s department has contracts with DHL and international couriers Lewis Day,along with the likes of HM Revenue & Customs,the Department for Work and Pensions and the Foreign Office who have multi million pound contracts with the likes of TNT and UK Mail.

Due to pricing regulations set by 'another' Government department,Royal Mail lose out because they are not allowed to under cut the private firms.

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