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There is certainly blame being flung

01:33 PM, Monday 16 November 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

WHY, NEXT WEEK, will postal workers go on strike? Everyone knows the consequences: deliveries stop, Royal Mail’s reputation is shredded and it sinks deeper into financial disrepair, management and workforce have their worst fears about each other confirmed.

But there is no clear explanation as to why it pearl jewelry must be this way or who is responsible.

There is certainly blame being flung around. Royal Mail managers charge the cultured pearl jewelry Communication Workers Union with confrontational Luddism. The company, groaning under the weight of a multibillion-pound pension deficit, is practically insolvent. The business, say managers, needs modernisation otherwise it will collapse. But the workforce rejects efficiency drives obstinately and automatically.

By contrast the union charges the bosses with ruthlessness and dishonesty. The meaning of “modernisation” remains obscure. New technology is part of it, but the real issue is cost controls, which means job losses. Meanwhile, Royal Mail made an operating profit of £321m last year. Chief executive Adam Crozier annually earns at least £1.3m including executive pension and bonuses. Strikes, says the union, are the last resort to protect poorly paid shell pearl jewelry members from redundancy at the hands of managers who have enriched themselves.

Such polarised interpretations leave

01:31 PM, Monday 16 November 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

Such polarised interpretations leave little room for negotiation. And, since opinion is just as divided in the Labour party, the government has essentially given up on biwa pearl the issue. Lord Mandelson’s plan to sell a stake in Royal Mail to a private sector carrier has been abandoned for fear of backbench rebellion.

The Conservatives do not have a public plan for Royal Mail, but it is safe to assume that, if they have a majority in the next parliament, their MPs will not baulk at privatisation.

In that sense, the union is taking a big risk. The worse the pearl necklace disruption to postal services now, the faster public sympathy with postal workers will drain away and the easier it will eventually be to effect redundancies. But since job losses are all that is on offer before the strike, the union sees no alternative.

The union’s methods and language might sound like a throwback to the 1970s, but their purpose – saving livelihoods – is not just political nostalgia. Managers may be right that modernisation is commercially vital, but that process doesn’t put their jobs on the line.

Beyond the confrontational rhetoric is a akoya pearl clear dilemma. Most people see universal, affordable mail delivery as an important public service. But it is not a profitable business. So whoever is in government must either devise a new publicly subsidised model that works, or tell voters they cannot have the service they want. Managers and unions cannot solve that problem. It is the politicians who must show some courage and choose.

bastard postmen won’t jam it through

01:29 PM, Monday 16 November 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

A massive postal strike is due to start this week. Letters will go undelivered, important bills and cheques will be delayed, packages may be lost forever in dusty back offices. The first question to freshwater pearl earrings ask is: how will we know the difference?

But nobody seems to be asking that question. Instead, people seem angry with the postal workers for striking. Everyone is grumbling about the inconvenience, damning the greed and worrying loudly about Christmas deliveries. We hate it when the shops put decorations up in October, yet, somehow, suddenly, now is exactly the shell pearl jewelry right time to start thinking about posting a Nintendo DS to cousin Johnny and complaining that those selfish bastard postmen won’t jam it through the letter box in time.

I can only assume, from the rage, that we think they have nothing to complain about. We must believe the Royal Mail is well managed, with sufficient workers and correctly allocated resources, thus resulting in the strong resemblance between a Swiss clock and the current state of the service.

Please. Before we were distracted by the pearl necklace opportunity to complain about postmen, we complained constantly about the post. The whole service has been totally cocked up. There are no longer two deliveries a day, the local post offices have all closed and “first class” now means “three days if you’re lucky”.

As Neil and I got to know each other

01:28 PM, Monday 16 November 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

Do you know your postman? I used to pearl jewelry know mine. His name was Neil. He was a foot fetishist.

As Neil and I got to know each other, we struck a deal. If I had a parcel, he would bring it at the end of the round, lugging items of occasionally significant weight until the whole shift was over (because I go to bed late and fear a 7am doorbell), on condition that I opened the door and signed for the package barefoot. He didn’t need to touch my feet, nothing like that. It wasn’t weird. He just wanted a quick glimpse of toe, in return for a decent lie-in.

It was a good deal. We were very happy with it. I used to cultured pearl jewelry take a Christmas cake to the sorting office every December.

But Neil is long gone. Our post is not just delivered at a different time every day, it’s delivered by a different person. Often a miserable, underpaid temp, who stuffs all the mail for six flats through the door in one torn and crumpled bundle because he or she is so frightened of being penalised by the manager for not meeting a preposterous delivery target that there is no time even to take the rubber bands off.

In beefing the delivery targets to unmanageable sizes inflatable water games per worker, then sacking postmen for failing to meet them, in axing the second post and generally thumping down the iron fist, the Royal Mail managed this year to make a £321m operating profit. They celebrated by imposing an immediate pay freeze on the workers.

In ignoring what they know people

01:27 PM, Monday 16 November 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

In ignoring what they know people want, they are rivalled only by banks. Banks persist in refusing to be contactable by phone, taking the mickey with the small stuff and paying themselves fat bonuses while we get no interest from them – in any sense. I went into Lloyds TSB and queued for 20 minutes because there was only one shell pearl jewelry window open. When I got to the front, the teller, Dot, said: “Hello Miss Coren.”

Hurray! I thought. After 10 years using this branch, they finally know me! They recognise my face and remember my name!

And then they refused to let me take out the cash I needed, because I couldn’t show proof of identity. This from a bank that is currently advertising its “personal touch”.

They put that in the adverts because they know we want a personal touch. But we don’t get it – not from private companies that should be wooing us, nor public companies that we collectively own. Whether as customers or bosses, we are short-changed.

This is what we should be angry about. Aren’t you? I bloody am. We are treated like tossers. When we read that postal workers are going on strike, we should share their fury and frustration rather than turning ours against them, the gutsy naysayers who are walking out against the sharp end of akoya pearl bad management that affects us all.

They are doing the right thing. They are making the protest that we all should and would if we knew how, rather than just rolling our eyes and miserably putting up with it.

If it does take until Christmas for Royal Mail Group to figure out that the pearl necklace £321m should be ploughed back into securing jobs, increasing wages and making the service better not worse, don’t shoot the messenger. In not delivering, he’s just trying to deliver. Pay your bills online, take the Nintendo round personally and shake hands with a postman on your way.

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