Leeds Passes And Royal Mail

[chelynnah]

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Good grief I wish Royal Mail would get their act together. Even with the one day strikes this is ridiculous! Original passes never showed up. Today the replacement passes (which were sent out first class on Monday and are postmarked Monday) have only just arrived this morning.

This is absolutely ridiculous, and not the only thing I know of to have disappeared into the ether for several days (or even weeks) in the last couple of months.

Just grateful they actually DID turn up.

If anyone is posting show entries I'd suggest you spend the extra to ensure they at least get signed for, if not the additional extra to have next day. THat seems to be the only way to ensure things are actually arriving...

Wendy

 

[dolly]

Oxford Mail centre has be on strike all week :blink:

More strikes next week, wednesday and saturday :lol:

 

[TC]

:sweating: At least you have got them on time.

Re the postal strikes - DON'T get me started :rant:

 

[georgina]

glad you got them Wendy

 

[whippetsrus]

It's been bad around us too. Glad your passes turned up. How's the lovely Teya?

 

[chelynnah]

It's been bad around us too.  Glad your passes turned up.   How's the lovely Teya?

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Teya is doing very well, and full of attitude as always (maybe even a bit more attitude since she's due in season soon)!! She send kisses to her brother Al!

Wendy

 

[JAX]

Dont ever worry if your passes have got lost , As long as you have proof of posting or/and they have received payment you will get in , To get passout just go straight to the sec table and she/he will issue you new ones .

More than once ive left passes at home :- " and the men on the gate have usually understood , Even if its meant leaving dogs , going to sec for passes first , just to get in :wacko:

 

[whippetsrus]

It's been bad around us too.  Glad your passes turned up.    How's the lovely Teya?

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Teya is doing very well, and full of attitude as always (maybe even a bit more attitude since she's due in season soon)!! She send kisses to her brother Al!

Wendy

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Pleased to hear she is well. Would love to see some photos of her if you have a mind to post some. :cheers:

 

[dessie]

Good grief I wish Royal Mail would get their act together.  Even with the one day strikes this is ridiculous!  Original passes never showed up.  Today the replacement passes (which were sent out first class on Monday and are postmarked Monday) have only just arrived this morning.
This is absolutely ridiculous, and not the only thing I know of to have disappeared into the ether for several days (or even weeks) in the last couple of months.

Just grateful they actually DID turn up.

If anyone is posting show entries I'd suggest you spend the extra to ensure they at least get signed for, if not the additional extra to have next day.  THat seems to be the only way to ensure things are actually arriving...

Wendy

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Oh! Don't say that! I am waiting for Jeremy's registration certificate which his breeder posted to me last Thursday and I still haven't got it ................ at this rate he will be in Veteran by the time he gets in the ring!!

 

[Mark Roberts]

Our post arrive at 3.50pm yesteday delivered by a child around 6 years old as our postman was just walking around letting all the local kids deliver his letters? might explain why I came home a few wwek back to find our post in the garden OPENED!

 

[Trish]

Our post arrive at 3.50pm yesteday delivered by a child around 6 years old as our postman was just walking around letting all the local kids deliver his letters? might explain why I came home a few wwek back to find our post in the garden OPENED!

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you should report it to the post master,all postmen are not allowed even to walk with civillians,a few years ago our postie was always posting our mail in others houses so i complained and i recieved a large book of first class stamps for my inconvenience and an investigation on the postie who was always walking with a couple of youths.

 

[Bellefire]

i have been waiting for 2 weeks for a show jacket to arrive. i am going to miss my competition tonight because it still hasn't arrived. :rant:

i ordered some fertile eggs for my dad from ebay, and they took over 2 weeks to arrive by special delivery. a complaint is ongoing about that. they are blaming it on the flooding. it also took 2 weeks for my pin number to arrive for my new card too. apparently that was the flooding's fault also.

then, a couple of weeks before that my hubby ordered a game from ebay for his xbox. it need a signature, but the postman posted it through the door without signatures. the dog chewed the envelope and the game, and so a complaint is ongoing for that too! we have a postbox on the wall as our dog is a well known post shredder. our normal postie knows this, but this guy was a replacement as normal postie was on holiday.

it's ridiculous.

Our post arrive at 3.50pm yesteday delivered by a child around 6 years old as our postman was just walking around letting all the local kids deliver his letters? might explain why I came home a few wwek back to find our post in the garden OPENED!

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you should report it to the post master,all postmen are not allowed even to walk with civillians,a few years ago our postie was always posting our mail in others houses so i complained and i recieved a large book of first class stamps for my inconvenience and an investigation on the postie who was always walking with a couple of youths.

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[chelynnah]

It's been bad around us too.  Glad your passes turned up.    How's the lovely Teya?

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Teya is doing very well, and full of attitude as always (maybe even a bit more attitude since she's due in season soon)!! She send kisses to her brother Al!

Wendy

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Pleased to hear she is well. Would love to see some photos of her if you have a mind to post some. :cheers:

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Have put some in General Discussion Whippets - here http://www.k9community.co.uk/forums/index....showtopic=34868

Always happy to share photos. The website is being updated - had to send 18 months worth of photos on CD to my web designer in Canada, so hopefully soon it will be up to date

YIKES to the stories of postal horrors!! I tell you they're not getting much sympathy from the British public when they're taking the mick like they are!

Jax - thanks for letting people know they still can get in in these circumstances. I did confirm with Higham Press that they had my entry, and I had my printout from entering online (which is not only easier, but you have proof that you entered immediately). I always bring the printouts or the certificates of posting to shows. It's just a PITA to have to go that route at a Champ Show, but yes, at least you can still get in.

Wendy

 

[beaker]

Our post arrive at 3.50pm yesteday delivered by a child around 6 years old as our postman was just walking around letting all the local kids deliver his letters? might explain why I came home a few wwek back to find our post in the garden OPENED!

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you MUST get it repoted!!!,

things won't change if people do nowt about it,

if your mail is late, doesn't turn up, is a bit battered when you get it, gets fed to the dog, isn't pushed right through etc, royal mail need to know about it then they can do something about it.

the majority of postie's are decent and hard working but "one bad apple" as they say :angry:

BTW i'm a postie, and would plead with you not to condem postie's for the strikes, we are not doing it on a whim, just fancying a day off here and there, our mail is late to and we loose massive chunks of our normal income as well.(i know it's crude to talk dosh but mine is the only wage coming into the house and last week it was only a little over 100 quid) i live with and look after my mum who is a pensioner and my mentaly handicapped uncle, so if you think ive done this lightly your very very wrong.

if the big fat cats win through it's not just 1000's of jobs lost, it's a reduction of sevices to the customer as well, WE LOOSE AND YOU LOOSE. the business gets privatised, foreign companies take over, TNT, Deutchpost etc, the fat cats get HUGE bonuses when it does (i bet they aren't driving their mums car coz they can't afford their own) they have already crucified the post offices and now they want to do the same to royal mail.

they can whack the price of postage up 25% but can't give us a rise in line with national average yet can fork out 6/7 figure bunuses to the guys that are putting decent posties in the dole queue :rant:

 

[chelynnah]

Hi Beaker

I don't envy you your job in the midst of this, and overall I don't have a problem with the 1 day striikes. In the past they've held mail up maybe a day or so - no big deal and I've always supported it.

This time though I think some people are taking it further and it's affecting far more than a days worth of post. Things posted 1st class and taking over a week or two to arrive? 2 one day strikes don't cause a 2 weeks backlog - maybe a 24-48 hour based on past strikes.

In general customers are willing to put up with a bit of inconvenience, but this time round there seems to be a lot more going on - and basically it feels like it's a bit of a ****-take at some of the sorting offices

Yes in theory I support the action - but it shouldn't be forgotten that the people sending and receiving post are also relying on things being sent for their living as well... In the past the strikes have managed to find a balance. This time it doesn't seem that way.

Wendy

hmmmm - wondering if this should be moved to chat now since it's moved on from the topic.

 

[beaker]

I agree i think certain offices are taking it further than just the one day strikes in that several of the posties won't do overtime either, since some jobs have already gone (more that posties retiring aren't getting replaced) several duties or rounds are done on 'overtime'

so the postie takes his/her own round out and then comes back and takes part or all of another, (often why people get their mail in the afternoon) if this overtime doesn't get done then mail gets 'left in' and builds up

it is risky for the postie to do this as most of us when we first started the job had to sign an agreement saying that if we were asked to do overtime we pretty much HAD to, no choice, you sign coz you want a job.

i understand what you are saying i know it sounds obvious that a 24 hour strike should only take 24/48 hours to recover from but it really isn't that easy, there are supposed to be weight limits to the bags we carry (16 kg) but most rounds are nearly impossible to do without having at least one bag over loaded (i've often had to take out bags close to 20kg) and an average 'round' can easily mean lugging around a least 5 or 6 bags :sweating: so a bulk of late or backlogged mail has to be "trickled in" , i supose the big burly bloke might be able to do it but i know i can't :b

i might have a big nose but i'm not a packhorse :lol:

it's no wonder that the average life expectancy of a postman after retirement is only 2 or 3 years

 

[chelynnah]

Well I DO have to say I don't envy you your jobs, and I do appreciate my postie (when it's my regular).

I'm SURE it must say 'packhorse' somewhere in your job description doesn't it Actually our guys must be lucky down here as they've got the trolley things to push round our area - that must make your jobs easier on the body when you've got those (I would hope it does for your sakes).

Wendy

 

[beaker]

we do really appreciate being appreciated :huggles:

i don't get on with the trolleys (i can 3 point turn a big sherpa van in a country lane but just can't park those things :lol: )i've tipped quite a few over so have given up on them

my osteopath loves me though (w00t)

 

[nicky12]

anyone near leeds been having probs with ther post as i sent a parcel on monday and its still not arrived ? :angry:

 

[Trish]

anyone near leeds been having probs with ther post as i sent a parcel on monday and its still not arrived ? :angry:

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my posts been fine :thumbsup: