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Yes that’s very good! That’s what they are paying the agency workers but they are not giving permanent workers full time contracts. We are stuck on 20/25/30 hours but most will do overtime as most of the walks are very long. And even then we have to chase the overtime to be paid. A lot of agency workers are claiming more hours than they actually work

Hello postie here. Striking is causing backlog but most of us dnt want to strike anymore, it just seems the those in charge of Royal Mail don’t care about the business going down hill, seems like they are determined to run this company to the ground. If we don’t strike however, Royal Mail will have free rein to do as they please. I have already heard that they are not paying people sick pay over the Christmas period, which surely must be breach of contract. These are one of the things they want to get rid of. They have got lots of agency workers who are paid around £20 an hour to try and clear the backlog but they are not doing as great a job as ur regular postie would. Posties are not getting paid on strike days and many of us are suffering over the cost of living but Royal Mail are not budging. If they really wanted to save Christmas, they would have done their utmost already as Christmas is their peak period. Like I said, they dnt care. Lots of my colleagues are stuck between a rock and a hard place. We want to deliver Christmas, this is why we love our jobs, but at the same time, we cannot give in to Royal Mail who are certainly damaging their reputation but blaming the strikes. I really feel despondent and dnt kno when this debacle will end, we have been striking most weeks since September now.

Postie from the east dulwich/peckham office here. First of all, apologies for this mess which is Royal Mail and the delays you are all experiencing. The problems here have preceded the Covid pandemic, from the beginning which I first started working here, it?s been majorly disorganised with bad management. Too much work expected to be done when it is not physically possible and we the postal workers are working so hard day in day out, it?s so de-moralising. Since the pandemic it?s 100x worse, constantly bombarded with parcels non stop, tracked and special delivery?s take precedence. At the moment we have crates upon crates of letters not sorted and piles of non tracked parcels, leaving barely any room to walk. The reason why u will be getting newer post is because the old crates of mail haven?t been sorted, left to the bottom of the pile as it were. If the management were better, the walks would be rotated so they would all get cleared. Instead, there are some walks which are regularly cleared and some which are left to build up. So you can imagine due to the bad organisation that no one knows what is from December and what is recent, we just take out what we are told. There is also the problem of not enough trolleys/pda?s and vans and not enough staff. Don?t get me started on the state of the vans, they have not been cleaned inside or outside since I have been working there for 6 years. The public would be shocked at how disgusting they are, who would think Royal Mail vans would be like this. It really frustrates me as I do love the job but so many things can be improved. If they kept on top of it, it wouldn?t have been so bad. It makes sense right, if one walk hasn?t gone out one day, then u take a postie off a walk that has been cleared and put them on that walk, so all the walks are taken in turn to be cleared. But apparently no one has thought to do this. So there you have it, the real story of Royal Mail