royal mail

[Claw75]

As this is a poker forum, and we're talking about the Royal Mail strike, I thought Vicky Coren's comments in the Guardian might be relevant:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/18/victoria-coren-royal-mail

Don't know why, but I expected to read something very different when I clicked on this. Good article imo.

[G1BTW]

I think your 100% right iron.

They are commiting career suicide by making a failing mess of a company that is already hated by the public look even worse.

They shouldnt be aloud to use the name Royal.

So the people that do all the work should just accept the shit and be treated like twats?

Oh and not everyone hates the Royal Mail. I certainly don't. If they ever disappear it's time to say hello to every letter you send costing 5 times as much, probably more.

You say Royal as if you're proud of it Stu. lols.

Agree with Evilpie Matthew Russllinho on this one.

Im not proud of it at all, you know that.
I couldnt care less about the Royals etc but in my crazy world it makes me think they should be like the police and not aloud to strike.

tbf, I did think this was going to be an Ironside post about Prince Charles.

[Colchester Kev]

The Royal Mail is not working .... I wonder why ?

If I post Iron a letter it gets picked up by a bloke in a van and ends up a day or 2 later in the outer fkin Hebrides and then some fella gets in his van or on his bike and pops it through Irons door... and the cheeky buggers want 32pence to do that !!

[Ironside]

The Royal Mail is not working .... I wonder why ?

If I post Iron a letter it gets picked up by a bloke in a van and ends up a day or 2 later in the outer fkin Hebrides and then some fella gets in his van or on his bike and pops it through Irons door... and the cheeky buggers want 32pence to do that !!

my mail rarely takes more than 48 hours from cornwall in fact post in on a tuesday its often here on the wednesday from anywhere in the UK
but yeah 32p is a little too much +EV at about 28.2p imho

[Ironside]

yeah and whn was the last time you sent me a letter kev

ffs i feel loved

[kinboshi]

The Royal Mail is not working .... I wonder why ?

If I post Iron a letter it gets picked up by a bloke in a van and ends up a day or 2 later in the outer fkin Hebrides and then some fella gets in his van or on his bike and pops it through Irons door... and the cheeky buggers want 32pence to do that !!

POTM

That postie writes about how the parts of the mail service that have been 'opened up to competition' are the bits in the middle of the process, the bits that can be profitable.  Meanwhile it's the Royal Mail that has to do the ugly stuff that doesn't offer the profit opportunities. 

Hardly a fair, competitive market?

[EvilPie]

The Royal Mail is not working .... I wonder why ?

If I post Iron a letter it gets picked up by a bloke in a van and ends up a day or 2 later in the outer fkin Hebrides and then some fella gets in his van or on his bike and pops it through Irons door... and the cheeky buggers want 32pence to do that !!

POTM

That postie writes about how the parts of the mail service that have been 'opened up to competition' are the bits in the middle of the process, the bits that can be profitable.  Meanwhile it's the Royal Mail that has to do the ugly stuff that doesn't offer the profit opportunities. 

Hardly a fair, competitive market?

+1

Quit the whinging people. The royal mail as a company may need looking at but the service they provide to ordinary people is unbelievable for the price they charge for it.

If it wasn't for all the legislation hampering them maybe they could run a more profitable business. Let's face it their infrastructure is second to none. They should be able to undercut every company in the country delivering any package anywhere. Unfortunately that isn't allowed because it wouldn't be fair to let a big national company succeed so they are throttled in to submission by rules that don't allow them to make money.

[bolt pp]

it pissed me off where i used to live when they just stopped delivering and didnt tell anyone, the whole area about 200 gaffs and they just stopped then everyone had to go to the postoffice and get mail boxes