Bank holiday postal deliveries?

cornbb · 31-10-2005 10:25am #1

Do An Post deliver on bank holidays?

I'm expecting an mp3 player and i have no patience

Drapper · 31-10-2005 10:35am

no

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 31-10-2005 10:51am

Ah tits... this is a bank holiday?

projectmayhem · 31-10-2005 11:24am

an post don't deliver on normal days anyway. shower of muppets they are

daveg · 31-10-2005 11:34am

I hope it's not coming from the UK. If so it maybe up to another 3 weeks (unofficial postal dispute).

cornbb · 31-10-2005 11:36am

WHAT?!!?

SHOWER OF B@STARDS!!

Ahem. Yes, its coming from amazon.co.uk :mad:

Wertz · 31-10-2005 12:26pm

cornbb wrote:

WHAT?!!?

SHOWER OF B@STARDS!!

Ahem. Yes, its coming from amazon.co.uk :mad:

Amazon use private couriers for electronics boxes IIRC in Ireland....but no, they don't deliver on bnak holidays either.
Usually takes about 4-5 working days for delivery of electronics if you're in an urban area...

As for An Post...working on a bank holiday? FFS they don't even work on a normal f*cking weekday...it's union policy :rolleyes:

Drapper · 31-10-2005 12:27pm

Wertz wrote:

Amazon use private couriers for electronics boxes IIRC in Ireland....but no, they don't deliver on bnak holidays either.
Usually takes about 4-5 working days for delivery of electronics if you're in an urban area...

As for An Post...working on a bank holiday? FFS they don't even work on a normal f*cking weekday...it's union policy :rolleyes:

lmfao

boneless · 31-10-2005 1:13pm

daveg wrote:

I hope it's not coming from the UK. If so it maybe up to another 3 weeks (unofficial postal dispute).

Nothing unofficial about it!! 90% of the members of the union who voted (90% turnout) voted for industrial action... thats a lot of pee'd off posties!!

BTW, sometimes there are bank holiday deliveries. It depends on the mail volumes etc.

I was a postal worker for 19 years....

danniemcq · 31-10-2005 2:41pm

who all remembers what happened in the good old US of A few years back with all the posties goin nuts...

ballooba · 31-10-2005 2:48pm

They should just privatise the lot. That would soon get them back to work.

boneless · 31-10-2005 6:29pm

ballooba wrote:

They should just privatise the lot. That would soon get them back to work.

That's exactly what the public dosen't need. The Postal workers are fighting to preserve a universal service, ie. one price to cover all of Ireland for example. A private company would not deliver to Ballygobackwards for the same price as it takes to deliver a letter from a Dublin address to another Dub address.

Look at Telecom Eireann and what happened there!!

netwhizkid · 31-10-2005 7:17pm

ballooba wrote:

They should just privatise the lot. That would soon get them back to work.

Do you really have no clue about the scourge that is capitalism, and how privatisation would ruin the postal service like it has ruined our telephone & internet service. The crying shame was that the russians, didn't nuke america and drive Capitalism from this planet forever. Privatisation, please wake up and smell the roses, you will find that they smell like manure.

ballooba · 31-10-2005 7:31pm

At least a private company wouldn't be wasting money on absentee workers. Maybe if they did some work and stopped whinging they wouldn't need to get privatised.

netwhizkid · 31-10-2005 7:35pm

When you are sick do you get paid? An Post workers get sicj too you know they only human, but i guess you would rather a race to the bottom, privatise the lot and bring in foreigners on pittance so you could be charged at least €1 per stamp and have to whole lot owned by some corrupt foreign multi national, no doubt american and sell all the post offices. Is this what you want? is it?

Laguna · 31-10-2005 7:39pm

Think about it Netwhizkid. If An Post became privatised it would open the avenue of rival companies competing in the postal market. After privatisation if they continued to perform in their abysmal manner, people would have the option to use an alternate service and the perennial strikers at An Post would be sacked, the folk who feel genuinely agrieved at their treatment have the right to strike, my postman is the laziest/rudest **** ever, I pray he loses his job.

ballooba · 31-10-2005 7:40pm

An Post workers seem to get sick an awful lot compared to normal people. Guess it must be all the germs off the envelopes. It's a good thing there is plenty of people willing to do overtime to cover for them.

Laguna · 31-10-2005 7:41pm

netwhizkid wrote:

bring in foreigners on pittance so you could be charged at least €1 per stamp and have to whole lot owned by some corrupt foreign multi national, no doubt american and sell all the post offices. Is this what you want? is it?

I don't appreciate your inference on foreigners here, I missed it the first time but what you've just said invalidates anything else you have to say.

Chad ghostal · 31-10-2005 7:44pm

Wertz wrote:

As for An Post...working on a bank holiday? FFS they don't even work on a normal f*cking weekday...it's union policy :rolleyes:

I was working (in sorting office) all day ya ungrateful Feck!!

and An Post workers (from my experience) are extremely helpful people.... the crap they have to put up with, and go out of their way to do....:rolleyes:

moshpit77 · 31-10-2005 7:47pm

ballooba wrote:

They should just privatise the lot. That would soon get them back to work.

I'm a postal worker, I will probably be striking next week, do you think I WANT to strike? I presume you work, do you get paid? Did you get a pay rise in line with inflation the past few years? I haven't. I have to live in a 2005 Ireland getting paid at 90's rates, and put up with ignorant people like you on top of it.

ballooba wrote:

An Post workers seem to get sick an awful lot compared to normal people. Guess it must be all the germs off the envelopes. It's a good thing there is plenty of people willing to do overtime to cover for them.

I presume you have evidence to back this up. An Post workers go sick as much as anybody else, you probably notice it more because if your postie goes sick you don't get post. If your local factory worker goes sick how are you to know.

I don't want to do overtime, ever. It's a case that I have to take a few hours if I get them or else I'm broke.

netwhizkid · 31-10-2005 7:49pm

Laguna wrote:

don't appreciate your inference on foreigners here, I missed it the first time but what you've just said invalidates anything else you have to say.

Replacing Irish worker with lower paid Foreginers is not on, We welcome all legasl immigrants as long as they behave and pay taxes, etc. it is the fact that these workers would be exploited as Gama Tubin did to their turkish workers, i feel ashamed to be Irish every time i drive over the ballincollig bypass. Now irish ferries are trying the same cheap trick which will see their new sailors basically imprisoned on board for nearly three months as they will be on such a tight turnaround like Ryanair that they won't be left off, working 12hour shifts, no bank holiday or sundays off. that is bonded slavery if i ever heard of it. Do you want that for our postal service?

Laguna wrote:

and the perennial strikers at An Post would be sacked (and rightly so).

So according to you, if workers strike over pay and conditions or maybe join a union you would have them sacked. You aren't related to Michael O'Leary are you by any chance?

[EDIT] Being part of a Union is allowed under the Irish Constitution, Bunreacht Na hÉireann, Article 40, Section 6, Pt III states, the right of the citizens to form associtions and unions. [EDIT]

ballooba · 31-10-2005 10:05pm

http://www.anpost.ie/Corporate/corporate_careers_graduate.html

€25K starting for a new graduate. That is exceptional money.

nlgbbbblth · 31-10-2005 10:07pm

boneless wrote:

Look at Telecom Eireann and what happened there!!

Who are Telecom Eireann?

I though the post and phone services are under the one banner here.
The Department of Post and Telegraphs?

They drive around in orange P&T Renault vans

sceptre · 01-11-2005 1:07am

netwhizkid wrote:

We

How many people are you representing or do you think you're representing? I don't remember a vote.

Lafortezza · 01-11-2005 1:20am

I can't remember the last time I actually posted anything myself. Last Christmas maybe?

ballooba · 01-11-2005 9:38am

That's because it would probably be quicker sending it by carrier pigeon. Post from meath to Dublin currentl takes from 4 days to over a week.

boneless · 02-11-2005 1:08am

ballooba wrote:

At least a private company wouldn't be wasting money on absentee workers. Maybe if they did some work and stopped whinging they wouldn't need to get privatised.

It's obvious that you do not have any idea of what you are trying to comment on. Do you really believe that privatisation is the be all and end all of your argument?

Are you just against workers standing up for their rights or have you got sound economic facts to back your call for the breaking of the post monopoly? Again, I point out the fact that a private company would not give a universal service.

Bank holiday postal deliveries?

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