Postal Strike does it effect you ?

[stewart38]

Is/has anyone been really effected by the strike ?

If it happen 10/15 years ago it would be far more detrimental

I might have a speeding ticket got flashed recently but would say ‘lost in post’

I wanted to instruct Taylor’s via post going to use another estate agent but can do it as well by e-mail

Seems to me apart from Christmas/ birthdays cards etc much of the stuff id send by post etc I can do by e-mail


Now tube strikes that’s a different matter


ps effect or affect ?

3. Calcium supplements can positively ______ one’s moods.
4. Calcium supplements can have a positive ______ on one’s moods.

[Lory]

Is/has anyone been really effected by the strike ?

I hope not I've ordered 2 pairs of dance shoes (Hey, I NEED them, OK ) and I wanted one of the pairs for this weekend!

[ducasi]

Fewer bills!

[Aleks]

ps effect or affect ?

3. Calcium supplements can positively ___AFFECT___ one’s moods.
4. Calcium supplements can have a positive ____EFFECT__ on one’s moods.

Though calcium is far less likely to have an affect on your mood than say a selenium/magenisium or multi-mineral supplement....

[stewart38]

Though calcium is far less likely to have an affect on your mood than say a selenium/magenisium or multi-mineral supplement....

I googled re effect ot affect and still made no sense

Have some rep anyway

[andystyle]

All the invites to my wedding have been sent out, so hopefully they A) get there OK and B) the responses get back to my future in-laws in a decent amount of time!

[Double Trouble]

my wedding

Don't do it...! It's not too late to pull out.

[andystyle]

Don't do it...! It's not too late to pull out.

[Astro]

Don't do it...! It's not too late to pull out.

That's an iffy form of contraception.

[Crazy Shark]

Is/has anyone been really effected by the strike ?

If it happen 10/15 years ago it would be far more detrimental

I might have a speeding ticket got flashed recently but would say ‘lost in post’

I wanted to instruct Taylor’s via post going to use another estate agent but can do it as well by e-mail

Seems to me apart from Christmas/ birthdays cards etc much of the stuff id send by post etc I can do by e-mail


Now tube strikes that’s a different matter

Nah the post strike doesn't affect me because i doubt i'll be getting anything this time of year seeing as its not x-mas or even my birthday yet!!

Tube strikes use to affect me when i was working in C.London but now that doesn't affect me either

[rubyred]

Caused no end of second planning for me. Sent out appointment letters trying to plan my week and then have to find telephone nos to let people know just in case they don't get the letter. Not receiving reports and things getting handed in late cos you don't have all the information, having to fax stuff because you are waiting for replys from people who haven't received your requests for information.... causing a right nuisance and extra trolling around.

However I wish them posties all the best and hope they get what they want, they work very hard and are an industry which so many might think can done away with.

[Astro]

However I wish them posties all the best and hope they get what they want, they work very hard and are an industry which so many might think can done away with.

Did anyone notice how chocker email was?

I don't think it could cope if snail mail went.


PS Got my phone bill this morning and two other boring items.

[David Bailey]

However I wish them posties all the best and hope they get what they want, they work very hard and are an industry which so many might think can done away with.

Well, I bloody don't - they're an old-style militant union, like the lazy beggars in the RMT. We're seeing a lot more union militancy now that Brown's put everyone in the world on the public salary, and I don't like it.

They get good conditions, a superb pension, and a job for life - hell, I wish I had that

And they're now striking illegally, to boot.

[Cruella]

I wish it was still on! Then we wouldn't have recieved a bloody penalty charge for apparently using a bus lane in London.

[rubyred]

They get good conditions, a superb pension, and a job for life - hell, I wish I had that

And they're now striking illegally, to boot.

It is precisely these conditions and pension that they are fighting for. How many people who have paid into a good pension over the years have had the rug pulled out from under their feet. Final salary pensions which have been done away with, raising people's age of entitlement to retire, the end of the 85 year rule, the options to buy years being phased out by if my recollection is right in April next year, the date is semantic , the principle there is that things are changing in an adverse way again for the conditions of workers. If I look at some of my friends who work in industries where they do not have a union I can't believe how they are taken advantage of. I don't believe that anyone has a job for life anymore, for example when you look at teaching as a profession and how many schools have closed down, I don't think anyone knows the outcome of the life of the profession they are in. I note the point about illegal strike action and this has happened as far as I am aware in Liverpool and London, two places out of how many other sorting offices over the country, BUT we have the reassurance that the changes in the employment law brought in under Maggie Thatcher and upheld by subsequent ''Labour'' governments will tackle these working people making the strength of their feelings known.

[David Bailey]

It is precisely these conditions and pension that they are fighting for.

Well if they wanted a decent pension, why didn't they oppose Brown's raiding of the pension funds ten years ago? He's the one who's single-handedly devalued pensions over the past decade,

Why should public employees get better pensions than the rest of us? Not to mention the whole "retire at 60" stuff...

How many people who have paid into a good pension over the years have had the rug pulled out from under their feet.

Dunno - how many?

I don't believe that anyone has a job for life anymore,

Posties seem to think they do.

BUT we have the reassurance that the changes in the employment law brought in under Maggie Thatcher and upheld by subsequent ''Labour'' governments will tackle these working people making the strength of their feelings known.

John Hutton (the minister "responsible", and I put the quotes in advisedly) was waffling and ducking responsibility all over the place on the radio this lunchtime. I think his words were something like "Nothing to do with me, but please don't strike, and if it's illegal, the lawyers should get involved".

Well, there's a strong position for a Government minister to take.

[Astro]

John Hutton (the minister "responsible", and I put the quotes in advisedly) was waffling and ducking responsibility all over the place on the radio this lunchtime. I think his words were something like "Nothing to do with me, but please don't strike, and if it's illegal, the lawyers should get involved".

Well, there's a strong position for a Government minister to take.

Some would argue that it was illegal for Thatcher to make striking illegal.

People have endured horrific working conditions over the centuries and unions fought hard for safe working conditions and a decent wage.

The wild cat strikes in the 70's ruined it all, they went too far.

I remember having to go home a few times because the thermostat was one degree below the designated union temperature for workers. I didn't want to go home, nor did most of my collegues. It was because of stupid stuff like that (within an hour the temperature would have been fine) that public opinion turned against unions.

Yet without unions we will be dehumanised again.

Some folks who are not in a union don't have any sort of a contract and can be laid off at a moments notice. They have to work long hours and on Sundays, have no holiday pay or sick pay, no compensation unheated/overheated working areas. Low pay too - that's why the government minimum wage was important.

[Mr Cool]

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QUOTE=DavidJames;417415]Well if they wanted a decent pension, why didn't they oppose Brown's raiding of the pension funds ten years ago? He's the one who's single-handedly devalued pensions over the past decade,

In hind sight we should all have taken to the streets to protest against this, shame we didnt

Why should public employees get better pensions than the rest of us? Not to mention the whole "retire at 60" stuff...

I believe everybody should be entitled to a decent pension at the end of thier working lives.
The closing of final salary schemes has commited many to poverty in old age and is a national discrace.

As a nation we can always find billions to fund wars we have no hope of winning and there is never a problem to fund the spiraling upkeep of royalty

But a decent pension or health service well i guess they are not important

[rubyred]

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In hind sight we should all have taken to the streets to protest against this, shame we didnt


I believe everybody should be entitled to a decent pension at the end of thier working lives.
The closing of final salary schemes has commited many to poverty in old age and is a national discrace.

As a nation we can always find billions to fund wars we have no hope of winning and there is never a problem to fund the spiraling upkeep of royalty

But a decent pension or health service well i guess they are not important

Well said Mr Cool.

[Astro]

Well said Mr Cool.

here, here.

Plus Alistair Darling has started a fresh round of pension raiding.

You can't trust any politician - must get it in writing - we need our unions.