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Dont worry the Unions will insist on a silly pay raise and act like it is the '70's again to force it back into the red.
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| Author: | pcernie [ Sun Jul 01, 2012 1:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Royal Mail postal business back in profit after four years |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18645548 Quickly, sell it cheaply with no thought for the future! |
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| Author: | bobbdobbs [ Sun Jul 01, 2012 8:33 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Royal Mail postal business back in profit after four years | |||||||||
Dont worry the Unions will insist on a silly pay raise and act like it is the '70's again to force it back into the red. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:05 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Royal Mail postal business back in profit after four years | ||||||||||||||||||
Exactly what I was thinking. Anyway I'm sure their pension deficit will do that soon too. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:05 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Royal Mail postal business back in profit after four years | ||||||||||||||||||
A lot of the staff who work for Royal Mail aren't unionised any more. They're employed from agencies on a casual basis. Part of the reason they're back in profit is this has allowed them to massively cut their wage bill. I suspect if the unionised staff did go on strike, quite a lot of depots would now be barely disrupted at all. Of course, it also explains why your post now arrives late most days and theft from post has gone through the roof. But neither of those things show on the balance sheet... Jon |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:26 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Royal Mail postal business back in profit after four years | |||||||||
Very true. Early last year I began sending birthday cards in brown envelopes, with printed labels; after cards failed to get through on numerous occasions. None have failed since then. |
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Royal Mail postal business back in profit after four years |
Wow, that would suggest people are still sending cash / vouchers through the mail. How stupid! |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:41 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Royal Mail postal business back in profit after four years | |||||||||
Don't know about that. Derby has always had a massive postal theft problem. It didn't take long to realise that when I first moved here over a decade ago. |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Mon Jul 02, 2012 8:27 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Royal Mail postal business back in profit after four years | |||||||||
I disagree with you there. Our postal system should be secure enough to allow people to stuff a tenner inside a birthday card. Several people still send money to my kids in that fashion. |
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:39 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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That would be nice but, the postal system is secure enough, it's called a Postal Order. That is a system that has been secure for many decades, and now we have internet banking etc. Sending cash to a relative is frankly asking for trouble. I wish the situation was better, but it isn't and never will be. |
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