“I have made no comment on this web page I have submitted no opinion on this site. The items posted are bogus and I have reported the matter to the herald. For comment on this story speak to the CWU. PLease remove all reference to me on your site as I have no comment to make and do not wish to be slandered.”

“Replying to Jeff Thomases comment, The Union in Plymouth has finally rid its self of the looney left. the present leadership is tottaly focused in getting the best for its members,and is aware of the present recession and its problems. Mr Thomases problem is that he is still living in the 1970s. the moderates are know in charge, are are representing its members within national giudelines, under difficult circumstances. well done Pymouth CWU,They are that moderate they invited a herald reporter to the meeting, and at no time did anyone say we are going on strike.”

“Didn't see a postman in our street yesterda have they already started or could it be that NO-ONE had any mail in the street something I find hard to believe especially as most days we get junk mail put through the door”

“Thanks to privatisation we have filthy hospitals, sky high water rates and massive fuel bills.

Can you imagine the increased prices and worsened service we would have to put up with when and if some private company used our Royal Mail purely to line the pockets of their shareholders.

I'm tired of successive governments selling of national assets and outsourcing important services only for the rest of us to suffer as a consequence.

If our posties go on strike to protect the service we receive such as it is (and there's no way it will get better when profit is its sole reason for being) then I'll support them 100% and not be too pleased if my new postman turns out to be a scab.

Tony - shame on you for standing by while your colleagues lost wages to achieve a payrise that you enjoy!”

“Marc Torpoint, Your comment ...." Hooray, please strike . No one uses the Royal mail these days the other carriers are so much cheaper "
Do you relise that those other carriers come through Royal mail, who do you think deliver your letters from these OTHER CARRIERS, I don't see a carrier walking down the street with a post bag door to door ?”

“Maybe the Union doesn't care whether the public care, which I doubt. If the union did, it would mount no just strike action but inform and convince us that we should join in the fight to preserve it as a public institution. But why do we need it when a profit lead new owner in a highly competitive market would have to sink or swim. All the present management and more so the Union seems to want is to preserve jobs and old fashioned ways at our expense while we suffer.”

“For the 16 reasons given by union stalwart it is plain that the post office is in its death throes and that strikes and campaigns like this will accelerate its slide into the grave. why not sell it off as a whole now to one of the more efficient foreign or european equivalents or simply put it or some vaguely saleable bits up for sale on the open market. There seem s no point at all in preserving it as a publicly owned company.”

“Typical British public, moan, moan, moan about a job you have never done & i bet you would never last if you did
We have a saying in our office " what lasts longer a Rowntree fruit pastal or a new postie?
Weve had six join us in November, there is now only one left
I for one could not work in a shop or sit in a nice warm office all day
I do my job well & go the extra mile for my customers & it shows at xmas, i dont want to strike but i would go on strike to protect the service YOU receive & of course protect my own job which i enjoy alot
Perhaps if some of you spoke to your postman/woman you would know the true facts, instead of speculating”

“It is clear that a number of the respondents to, have no idea of the subject they are attempting to pontificate.

Fact (1) Royal Mail was allowed to take a 14 year Pension Holiday.

Fact (2) During roughly the same period they made profits of one million per day, which went straight into the coffers of HM Treaury.

Fact (3) This was the same period when our competitors in Europe were making substantial losses but investing heavily in new technology, often with grants from their own Governments.

Fact (4) The UK introduced Liberalisation and opened the UK Market to (Foriegn) competion years before it was required to do so.

Fact (5) Postcom who were charged to regulate the market in the UK grossly understimated both the speed at which competion would take place and the effect upon Royal Mails revenue.

Fact (6) Royal Mail still delivers 99% of ALL mail, including the competitors.

Fact (7) Over 80% of all advertising mail (Junk Mail) is delivered by RM for competitors at the princely sum of 14pence per item. Royal Makes a loss on every item deliverd for competitors.

Fact (8) Only very large business posters have seen any benefit from de-regulation and the introduction of competion. ( Hooper report)

Fact (9) Over 40,000 jobs have been lost, there is now only one delivery per day, Collections have been reduced, over 2000 post office counters have closed and you might recieve your delivery at any time before midnight to meet the" improved" quality of service targets claimed by Royal Mail.

Fact (10) In evidence to the Government select committe last week, Lord "Mandy" Mandelson stated Royal Mail required hundreds of millions in investment. However when pressed admitted he didn't have any figures.

Fact (11) A few days later Richard Hooper confessed to the same committe that he didn't know how much investment Royal Mail needed and that he also had no figures.

Fact (12) As taxpayers you are now being asked to take on between £3.4 and £9 billion of debt, in return for a foriegn competitor taking on up to 49% of Royal Mail who will then of course rake in the profits.

Fact (14) Only £600 million of a £1.2 billion modernisation loan provided by Government has been used to date.
Surprisingly neither Lord Mandelson or Richard Hooper were abe to tell the Select Committee how or were it has been spent.

Fact (15) Your deliveries are about to arrive even later as Royal Mail managers cut both jobs and services even further to make their own bonuses which are directly tied to achieving those savings.

Fact (16) Everything said above may be verified by researching reports of the BERR committee on HM Governments website, The Hooper Report publshed by HM Stationary Office (now owned by a Foriegn Government owned Company), and by the reports published by the Regulator Postcom.”

“Universal delivery at a single price. Worthless mantra if its too expensive often gets lost and may turn up damaged or not at all. Time for the Post office to make a dignified exit off into the history books.”