| From: | Stephen Pike |
| Date: | 21 May 2001 at 21:45:27 |
| Subject: | Re: Postal deliveries (Was Re: Issue #20) |
Hi ,
On 29-Apr-01, you wrote:
> In a message on 29-Apr-01 09:07:35, Don Cox wrote to Neil:
>
>>>> In Victorian times, there was a teatime delivery too.
and deliveries on Christmas day and sunday's :-(
>> Maybe the teatime deliveries should be revived just for Amigactive
>> subscriptions ?
Would you like to start work at 5am to 10am then go home and then back to
work say about 4pm to 6pm 6 days a week? i certanly don't!
> Our deliveries here are any time between 08:30 and 16:00 depending
> on weather, postmen sickness, strikes, and the mood of the moment.
Being a Postman/women is not an easy job as most people think, we're out
in all weather catch all sorts of bugs, get attacked by dogs, people and
generaly anything that takes a dislike to us at the time!
Managers treat you like shit,all we are to them is a pay number, as long as
the mail goes out in the morning they're happy.
> Gone are the days when the same postman did a route for the whole
> of his working life and knew the names (and dogs) of everyone on
> that route. Nowadays it's unusual to see the same postman two days
> running. It's all part of modern "management" methods:- treat
> workers as "work units".
Excuse me but you are wrong, when i started working for Royal Mail 15 years
ago, we had groups of 3 or 4 duties, which we would rotate on a weekly
basis, this gave us knowledge of 4 duties for when there was sickness.
We now have fixed duties that we have to do every day whether its snowing
raining or hot and sunny, and now the knowledge has gone and we still work six days a week.
> Must stop before this becomes a 10-page rant.
don't get me started on the Post Office because i'll be here all sodding
night, don't get me wrong i love the job, its just the idiots running it i
dislike.
We try our best to deliver the mail to all of you, but we get crap from
customers managers and now the government who ARE going to PRIVATISE us,
i don't know whether that is a good thing, but be sure people WILL lose jobs
and deliverie may well suffer.
Do you reckon they're gonna deliver to the rural areas if we lose the towns
that subsidise the rural deliveries, i don't think so, also there will be
zones like on the under ground so the further or more zones you go through
the more its gonna cost!
Well i think thats my rant over for now, sorry for the OT.
Regards, Steve
A member of G.A.G - Gloucestershire Amiga Group.
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