Strikes

nonemouse

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
North yorks
Looks as though the posties are going to come out as well. Good job I say. Should make everyone realise how totally irrelevant a daily postal service is. I would get rid of 50 % of the posties and go for every 2nd or 3rd day delivery. Why do we need a daily service?

BB
Your luck if you get a daily service, our local sorting office has been short staffed, from precovid times, we are doing well if we get 3 deliveries a week (in fact in December it was down to one delivery a week ) the amount of mis directed post is rediculous, some days I’ve had more post to send back than actually was here.
father still likes to read farmers guardian so we get that via post, it used always arrive on a Friday, then it got that it would be Saturday, now we rarely get any post on a Saturday and it could be Tuesday or Wednesday before it arrives.
 

Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
80% of the stuff that gets put in my post box is junk, generic marketing pamphlets, Its a weekly occurrence to get a Domino's pizza offer and the nearest one is miles away!!

To be honest I empty the farm office post box maybe twice a week, and thats doing well.

As a supplier to a processor who makes mozzarella for Dominoes, you wash your mouth out .... fine job those flyers
 

Hindsight

Member
Location
Lincolnshire
Well I am going to go against the tone of many replies so far. We here in South Lincolnshire have excellent post staff. Friendly, helpful and reliable deliveries. Be a sad day when our UK Post Office and Royal Mail goes the inevitable way of the last years but that is inevitable progress. And same folk on here chastising the Royal Mail will be saying the family farm and small dairy herds should be preserved for the fabric of rural society and, well, because they should. hey ho.
 

Dry Rot

Member
Livestock Farmer
When my mate's girl friend asked me what I was working at these days (1970s) I told her I was working for the government in communications. Then my mate snorted and let it be known I was a relief Christmas postman. barsteward! I got a row from the regular postie for getting back to the office too early. "Go and get a coffee or something". But it was an educational experience. How did dogs know I was a postman? I didn't have the uniform. Dogs really don't like posties. They arrive, dog barks, they go away. Dog wins. These days they all carry treats and are taught canine psychology. If only they'd teach the dog owning public some canine psychology! (That's my thought for today).
 

Paddington

Member
Location
Soggy Shropshire
Had an order from Amazon go astray, they said it had been delivered, Royal Mail said it had been delivered, but we hadn't got it. Mentioned the fact to our postman. He went down to his van and a minute later came back with the tracking information on the parcel, it had been sent to a farm of the same name a few miles away by a new postman that morning. They would contact the owner and get the parcel sent back to the sorting office to be redelivered in a day or so. An hour later he was back with our parcel, he had braved two collies to get to the farm postbox, seen our address on the parcel and brought it back to us. Hero !
 

DaveGrohl

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Cumbria
80% of the stuff that gets put in my post box is junk, generic marketing pamphlets, Its a weekly occurrence to get a Domino's pizza offer and the nearest one is miles away!!

To be honest I empty the farm office post box maybe twice a week, and thats doing well.
Yes but it’ll be carbon neutral junk mail.

Always make me laugh when I receive an e-mail from a company and they say think carefully before you print this out. It’s invariably a form they want me to print, sign, scan and e-mail back to them or a 106 page terms and conditions doc or some such.
 
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Bramble

Member
Contrast the rail industry against the airline industry. Both received a lot of furlough cash over COVID, the airline industry laid off staff and now don’t have enough (public desperation for holidays), the rail industry retained staff and now have too many (commuters now working from home).

A re-training opportunity - do you fancy your next flight to be captained by an ex train driver?
 
Contrast the rail industry against the airline industry. Both received a lot of furlough cash over COVID, the airline industry laid off staff and now don’t have enough (public desperation for holidays), the rail industry retained staff and now have too many (commuters now working from home).

A re-training opportunity - do you fancy your next flight to be captained by an ex train driver?

Train drivers are paid similarly to airline pilots and have similar training and restrictions on their work. I've no sympathy for the airlines, they laid staff off in droves, they can frankly get fudged in my opinion. I do like to see fudge-you capitalism getting fudged in reverse by a shortage of workers. A big correction between the rich and the rest of us is long overdue.
 

Farma Parma

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
No Sympathy whatsoever if they dont like the v good wages then change jobs.
As for Trains ive even lesser use for them so wont bother me if they all parked up for weeks.
Live where you work zero commute.
And its still cheaper too make that instant choice to go too a lot of places by jumping in a car
Yes i know fuel is getting dearer but the Train isnt everything its meant to be iam afraid.
Thankfully ive no need to get into major cities as a rule so my Car does everything i ever need
 

SteveHants

Member
Livestock Farmer
Train drivers are paid similarly to airline pilots and have similar training and restrictions on their work. I've no sympathy for the airlines, they laid staff off in droves, they can frankly get fudged in my opinion. I do like to see fudge-you capitalism getting fudged in reverse by a shortage of workers. A big correction between the rich and the rest of us is long overdue.
Except, of course - it aint the drivers on strike. They are mostly in Aslef.

It's the ancilliary workers on strike (who, along with the drivers would have been key workers and would have worked during lots of the pandemic).
 

Farma Parma

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
and as for demanding huge pay increases what boat did they get off?
when the Nurses cant get anything like it i think there living an ideal dream of inflation beating wage increases.
 

Jackov Altraids

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon
Well I am going to go against the tone of many replies so far. We here in South Lincolnshire have excellent post staff. Friendly, helpful and reliable deliveries. Be a sad day when our UK Post Office and Royal Mail goes the inevitable way of the last years but that is inevitable progress. And same folk on here chastising the Royal Mail will be saying the family farm and small dairy herds should be preserved for the fabric of rural society and, well, because they should. hey ho.

I don't believe those thoughts are mutually exclusive.
I both love and despair at the Royal Mail.
They face similar problems to small farmers.
They are expected to uphold the highest standards and help the public in whatever capacity they can while doing all the hard work while competitors [often from abroad] cut all the corners to do the job on the cheap.

Likewise, everyone says they love their postman [local farmer] but when they order something [buy from the shop] they select which ever option is cheapest.

They then complain that things are not as good as they used to be. QED.
 
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