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Would like to help...
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2024 6:03 pm
by 360gts
Thought I'd just let the Forum know that ...I ...(and others over here) are more than happy to help with parts/bits for members in the want section......
However, bit difficult at the moment....our good old postal service has been on strike now for FOUR weeks with no immediate end in in sight.
Our lack Lustre Government refuses to force them back to work....
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2024 6:30 pm
by moita
Hi Dermott,
Wow... 4 weeks!! I guess that will create a lot of trouble in the mails.. and will take a lot of time to stabilise.
What are they claiming? Better salaries?
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2024 7:31 pm
by 360gts
moita wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2024 6:30 pm
Hi Dermott,
Wow... 4 weeks!! I guess that will create a lot of trouble in the mails.. and will take a lot of time to stabilize.
What are they claiming? Better salaries?
Yep, a royal pain in the A** Their demands are numerous and absolutely ridiculous.
19% raise....and other guarantees....more sick days and they want to bank the sick days...keep them there till they retire. They are a Crown corporation...good pay...great benefits and good pension. They are so out of touch.... Can. Post has lost nearly $4 billion over the last 4 years.....
As of Monday...over 12 million packages sitting in depots across the country.
They have a staff of 56 thousand,.....that was the number needed back in 2019 when they were handling 5.5 billion packages (year)...that has dropped to 2,5 billion....but they still have the same number of employees....
A private corporation would never operate like that...they would be bankrupt!
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2024 8:34 pm
by Exminiman
……..banking sick days , FFS
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2024 12:59 pm
by MiNiKiN
360gts wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2024 7:31 pm
Yep, a royal pain in the A** Their demands are numerous and absolutely ridiculous.
19% raise....and other guarantees....more sick days and they want to bank the sick days...keep them there till they retire. They are a Crown corporation...good pay...great benefits and good pension. They are so out of touch.... Can. Post has lost nearly $4 billion over the last 4 years.....
As of Monday...over 12 million packages sitting in depots across the country.
They have a staff of 56 thousand,.....that was the number needed back in 2019 when they were handling 5.5 billion packages (year)...that has dropped to 2,5 billion....but they still have the same number of employees....
A private corporation would never operate like that...they would be bankrupt!
Please tell me this is from a Monty Python sketch....
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2024 2:41 pm
by woodypup59
Whilst I sympathise 360GTS, I have no idea where you are !
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2024 3:13 pm
by 360gts
woodypup59 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 2:41 pm
Whilst I sympathise 360GTS, I have no idea where you are !
It's Canada Post.
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2024 3:16 pm
by 360gts
MiNiKiN wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 12:59 pm
360gts wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2024 7:31 pm
Yep, a royal pain in the A** Their demands are numerous and absolutely ridiculous.
19% raise....and other guarantees....more sick days and they want to bank the sick days...keep them there till they retire. They are a Crown corporation...good pay...great benefits and good pension. They are so out of touch.... Can. Post has lost nearly $4 billion over the last 4 years.....
As of Monday...over 12 million packages sitting in depots across the country.
They have a staff of 56 thousand,.....that was the number needed back in 2019 when they were handling 5.5 billion packages (year)...that has dropped to 2,5 billion....but they still have the same number of employees....
A private corporation would never operate like that...they would be bankrupt!
Please tell me this is from a Monty Python sketch....
Could be from Fawlty Towers...unfortunately, it's real....in all fairness...they lowered their pay demands from 24 to 19%!!!
Will be starting our fifth week tomorrow
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2024 3:49 pm
by Exminiman
Postman Pat at his best and most authentic...still makes me laugh out loud..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuD9u8iYNEI
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2024 6:06 pm
by 360gts
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2024 9:48 pm
by moita
How's going the drama, Dermott?
solved now?
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2024 5:02 pm
by 360gts
moita wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2024 9:48 pm
How's going the drama, Dermott?
solved now?
Well, wish I could say it is back to normal....not quite....think they are working to rule as they were forced back to work.
I am still waiting on a few packages from the US...tracking shows them sitting for a few days at each facility.....they are moving at a snail pace through the system.
They are now accepting outgoing mail now for Europe....
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2024 11:31 am
by Costafortune
My Mum lives in Canada (NS) and it's not the country she moved to in 2005 thanks to that Trudeau idiot. The sheer volume of beggars in Halifax is astounding.
Royal Mail have been bought out and hopefully it will become a really serious postal service. Tbf it's not bad as it is. Under the Starmer dictatorship it would turn to sh*t in no time however so perhaps it's been saved in time.
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:47 pm
by 360gts
OH CANADA! Having just suffered through 4 + weeks of striking postal workers.....Canada Post just implemented a 25% increase this morning
Guess I could sort of swallow this one if service was better...it is getting worse.
25%.... then, they wonder why people are using the postal service less and less! Typical, you can't sell your product....so what to do...increase your prices.
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 9:24 pm
by moita
Is it finally sorted out?
Re: Would like to help...
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 9:47 pm
by 360gts
moita wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 9:24 pm
Is it finally sorted out?
Hi, well, they are back at work...but the mail seems to be slower...maybe they are upset at being sent back by the Government.
Cheers
