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DO YOU TRUST ROYAL MAIL ANY MORE?

Royal Mail's strikes are over...but is it too late?

Friday November 6,2009

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THE threat of Christmas postal chaos was dramatically averted last night when Royal Mail and union leaders signed an eleventh-hour no-strike deal.

Two 24-hour national stoppages planned for today and Monday will now not go ahead and staff have pledged to keep working through to next year under the temporary deal.

The interim agreement will create a “period of calm” while the Communication Workers Union and Royal Mail strive to reach a lasting settlement in their long-running dispute over the company’s modernisation programme.

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber, who helped broker the truce, said last night: “The agreement is a very important step forward, but it is a long way from the end of the road.”

DO YOU NO LONGER TRUST ROYAL MAIL?

HAS THE CRIPPLING STRIKE ACTION RUINED THEIR REPUTATION WITH THE PUBLIC?

WOULD YOU PREFER TO USE ANOTHER SERVICE IF THEIR PRICES WERE COMPETITIVE WITH ROYAL MAIL?

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TRUST ROYAL MAIL

21.11.09, 2:56pm

No way I know that my local postie is looking for another job - that says it all !!

• Posted by: Chipsnest • Report Comment

DO YOU TRUST ROYAL MAIL?

21.11.09, 1:44pm

I trust the Royal Mail!

I have no problem with it..

In West Lothian, Scotland, there appears not to be a problem. We receive mail every day. The only problem we find is that it is very late in the day but at least we get it.

• Posted by: SHARP1 • Report Comment

AND ANOTHER THING...

18.11.09, 9:15pm

This whole death thing is a con. Once you have paid the statutory fees like registration, coffin (trade price), storage, transport, council fees, crem fees and incidentals, you are looking at 2 - 3 hundred quid, if that!

How undertakers can charge between £1500 and £2000 for the most basic of funerals, is beyond me. OK, if you want embalming, viewing etc. then you will be expected to pay for the extra service but let's face it: once life is extinct, the soul, spirit, ghost, etheric double or whatever your belief is; has taken flight. The body is just an empty shell which once housed this magnificent human being and now requires disposal. That, of course, is putting it in a matter-of -fact way and is in no way being disrespectful of the entity which once inhabited it but life has to go on.

Mourn the life that once was, not the physical body. The old Indians have the right idea: stick the body on a bonfire and keep the memory of the personality that was once inside it. I blame the Victorians because they made death a taboo. If you came down on morning, God forbid, and found your pussycat, doggy, budgie, gerbil etc. dead, you would more than likely, bury it in the garden. Obviously, you cannot dispose of human remains that simple because of various laws surrounding death and disposal of bodies, (registration,health and hygene).

Undertakers rely on the emotional attachment that we humans have with our loved ones and because although, technically, you could take your loved one down to the local crem in your estate car and do everything yourself however, polite society dictates that we pay through the nose for an undertaker to "do the job according to societiy's expectations"

Please don't look upon me as some hard faced uncaring bloke but I DO resent paying thousands of pounds for a service that costs just a couple of hundred. No wonder more and more folk are opting for woodland burials!

• Posted by: Codeblue • Report Comment

I THINK YOU REALLY NEED TO CHALLENGE THE LOCAL AUTHORITY ON THIS.

18.11.09, 8:38pm

Most town councils will usually make a surcharge of between £50 and £100 to bury an outsider in a municipal cemetery but they have no control of what the Church charge. A friend of mine died a couple of years ago, she was cremmed and the vicar wanted to charge £200 for having her ashes scattered over her family grave. We did it on a Monday morning for nothing whilst the old swindler was sleeping off the communion wine. "Man of God" - my backside!

If you have nothing against cremming, that may have been a cheaper option.

• Posted by: Codeblue • Report Comment

CODEBLUE... I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THAT MY YOUNGER BROTHER IS LOOKING ON, AND THINKING FOR GODS SAKE HARRI... JUST SHUT THE FUC* UP?

18.11.09, 6:04pm

And thats all very well and good, but he is not the one who has to pay the dam bills is he !

Apparently, because he has been off the voters register, for some period of time, for him to be buried in the town of his birth.... will cost an extra £1000 ? and no i am not joking, why would i need to !

I just have to pay for it ?

• Posted by: Harri_if_hipphopper_wants_a_date_just_ask • Report Comment

PAYING FOR BODIES TO PASS THROUGH BOROUGHS AND COUNTIES.

18.11.09, 5:32pm

I think you will find that rule got knocked on the head years ago but I do not know when. The undertakers may charge mileage if the body has to travel more than an acceptable distance but to the best of my knowledge, you don't have to pay for every area.

Think about it logically: how would the authorities know?

Another piece of info I can give you is that if you have had an aged relative living in a council care home and the local authority took their pension, house and other expenses to pay for the accommodation: You as a relative do not have to pay for the funeral.

If they took money to care for them, they pay the funeral. It's all done on taxpayer's expense anyway. You still have a say of where and when and the funeral is a basic one that would probably have been your choice anyway.

• Posted by: Codeblue • Report Comment