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It's what I hear from active trade unionists.
Yes, there's more to running a service than your rather narrow definition of "efficiency" (which I assume is the most work for the least expenditure). Not everything can be measured by that way.
Ahhhh, here we are. Delivering at 4pm is not a good service. Delivering first class mail before people go to work and 2nd class mail later (the way it used to be) is a good service.
I suggest you read again.
You seem to have missed my point by ten million miles.
Oh well, I'm in a good mood after my hols, so I can't be arsed to argue.
Why am I not surprised. Of course it's a conspiracy and no way are their members to blame for the company's prblems and no way can it be just that the management aren;t any good - no it's clearly all designed by some all powerful cartel to rob their members of jobs.
Seriously, I have much sympathy for the support that Trade Unions can give their members, indeed I have been a mamber. However sometimes I do wonder how far they can get their heads up their arses
Who said it was just about cost, time is part of that equation too...
But I am interested now in your definition of "efficient".
Why separate into two classes?
Yep, you still talk about mail getting stolen but the workers.
No I haven't, I've just pointed out that you have used your example in a narrow form - missing the other interpretation. Perception is all important.
It's isn't casualisation which causes the problem of theivery, it's criminal intent
Spoilsport
It's also in the 70s and 80s we weren't sending CDs and DVDs through the post.
The risk of getting caught is probably about the same as it used to be, the rewards for casual theft are much more.
yes
thats why the strike won't cause massive problems as itll just mean royal mail will hire temps and un-unionised people to take the CWU's people place
it's a deliberately run down service whilst the private competitors were able to purchase end mile delivery at a loss to royal mail
like any public service we always do a hotchpotch of privitisations, with service efficiency cuts whilst bailing out shareholders, as can be seen with the tube PPP deals and contractors failing targets, yet getting paid and now claming more money for work
in Newham where i used to live, they've sacked refuse collectors who sort the recycling stuff and hired agency staff to do it, so they're falling behind in work, strangely enough whilst the council is running a review that is currently expected to ask for the refuse work to contracted out of council
http://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/search/story.aspx?brand=RECOnline&category=Postbagnewham&itemid=WeED05%20Jul%202007%2009:42:41:260&tBrand=RECOnline&tCategory=search
Can anyone name a formerly State-owned public service that went through the same process?
because up to the thing of gradually privitising mail delivery, i think it was initiated in 2002, Royal Mail was one of the most efficient and cheapest mail delivery firms - it's actually pretty good still as well, just nowhere near as good as it used to be, it's still far cheaper for parcel sending than other firms
if they want royal mail to be private they should of cut all government ties, and let it set it's own prices whilst allowing full competition, but they didn't
personally royal mail was fine for letter delivery before this privitisation crap, it was reliable and pretty cheap and made money too