Well I just spoke to my friend and he did not recieve it. He rung them and said why he never got and they said "We did not post anything yesterday". He said but I paid for next day delivery they said "I know" no appology or nowt
Unbelivable
Coley
There is a 3 day postal strike in London.
By Steve Rothwell
July 8 (Bloomberg) -- London postal employees began a three-day strike in a dispute over workforce reductions at state-owned Royal Mail Group Plc.
The walkout started at 5 a.m. today and no talks with the company are scheduled, Sian Jones, a spokeswoman for the Communications Workers Union, said by telephone.
More than 10,000 of Royal Mail’s 12,000 London employees are involved in the dispute after the company turned down an offer of a three-month strike moratorium in return for talks about modernization. The workforce is being reduced without any increase in mechanization or revamp of delivery schedules, putting employees under intolerable strain, the CWU says.
“The ball is in Royal Mail’s court,” Jones said. “We’d like them to come forward and offer meaningful talks.”
Royal Mail spokesman James Taylor reiterated the company’s view that planned changes to working practices should happen immediately rather than in three months. Unions are thwarting processes crucial to survival, the postal carrier says.
Royal Mail is calling in managers from throughout the country to help reduce disruption to service during the strike. The company intends to make limited deliveries and will collect mail from all post offices and public drop-boxes.
The U.K. government last week postponed a plan, opposed by unions, to sell a stake in Royal Mail to an investor to help improve competitiveness. The company has suffered a 10 percent decline in annual postal volumes, while in London 20 percent fewer items are being delivered daily than two years ago.
Mandelson Says Sell
Business Secretary Peter Mandelson said yesterday that the negative attitude of unions to change was partly to blame for the mail carrier’s difficulties. The company has a 7 billion- pound ($11 billion) pension deficit.
The 360-year-old service is struggling to adapt to competition from TNT NV, DHL Worldwide Express and Business Post Group Plc, as well as the Internet. Mandelson said he will continue to press for the sale of a stake in Royal Mail once the economy picks up.
The CWU is also planning a day of protests on July 17, combining industrial action with demonstrations.