Successful privatisation showed that investors saw value in this volatile mix. The contrast between Chorley and Marple underlines how the Royal Mail combines industrial production line, social mission, commercial enterprise and national treasure in one institution. Moya Greene, Royal Mail chief executive © Dan Burn-Forti With these resources, the Marple office must deliver mail to an area that stretches from suburban terraced streets, via pretty wooded valleys – known locally as “Little Switzerland” – to hilltop moorland on the edge of the Peak District. ![]() On the day I visited in early August, four were off sick, including one bitten by a dog the previous day, and there were three unfilled vacancies. He is juggling a platoon of 35 postmen and women, or “posties”. Delivery office managers – or “Doms” – such as Bodnar act like Royal Mail’s commanders in the trenches. Inside the bunker-like building, manager Nic Bodnar works the phones in a room squeezed between the small sorting floor and the men’s changing room. Together, they handle letters and an increasing number of parcels – about 10 times as many as Parcelforce. Marple’s delivery office is one of 1,400 nationwide. The person who has to reconcile these two extremes is Canadian chief executive Moya Greene, 60, the first woman and the first foreigner to hold the office – and the first manager of any sort to run the postal service as a quoted company, following its privatisation a year ago. If Chorley is a well-oiled postal machine, then the Royal Mail’s outpost in Marple, on the opposite side of Manchester, still looks like the hand-cranked version of the system. Most important, managers and staff at Parcelforce – which has long operated as an autonomous express parcel unit within Royal Mail, up against FedEx, UPS and others – are highly sensitive to competition. ![]() Our best for ourselves, our workmates, our futures and the futures of the postal industry.Chorley stands at one extreme of the modernisation of the Royal Mail, Britain’s five-century-old postal service. Lets make sure that come the 5th Oct when judgement day arrives we have all given our best. By escalating the action so that the financial impact is so high we have given RM grounds to get into our members. Because of the document that RM put together we have been able to slaughter managers up ad down the UK and even the weakest members have woken up. In my opinion this action is a tactical error. We all need to become foot soldiers for the CWU in the next two weeks. If we are to make this action a success then the campaign to get deliveries working properly simply MUST work. Lets remember that we have already gone out as all functions and the affect was smaller. There seems to be a general eurphoria on here about the escalation. The union must be cute enough to focus on this aspect as Royal Mail will home in on the 4 days pay in a row and they will also attack Dave Ward (who wrote to us promising maximum dispruption to RM and minimum to us) This means by the time Oct 9th is over we would have had 4 strike days in 10 weeks. By the time 0ct 5th comes we will have had 9 weeks with no action. If HQ and the branches sit back then it is a recipe for disaster! If we pull it off then we can move towards ridding the industry of leighton and crozier. This IS THE MAKE OR BREAK OF THE DISPUTE. There Must be comms EVERDAY, letters to our homes, emails, posters, PEC members visiting as many workplaces as possible. ![]() ![]() The PEC now have the responsibility of making sure that ALL members know how serious this dispute has become. The PEC have now made the decision to escalate the action despite the fact that the reps in attendance at the national briefing were calling for a straight return to functional action. We have to be aware that we will lose some people over this and we also have to remember that it is 99.9% sure that Royal Mail will take the chance to take 4 days pay out of one weeks wages!!!Īs branches we have worked our asses off. I fully support the action and I know that after some moaning so will the whole unit where I work. So we're out 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th followed by rolling action to xmas
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