Revvin, I can assure you that many of my colleagues in my office including myself have been expected to work over our hours without pay. As a result of this one of our managers is being taken to a tribunal. Why would I come back to you with some fed union line? I haven't mentioned anything said by the union, in fact for the record I'm not even in the union. I have simply stated MY experiences of working for Royal Mail. I'm not bleeding my heart out to you, I'm telling it as it is from my eyes and experience. Even if we had agreed to the new routes, we would still be expected to cover other rounds too as we are short staffed and they refuse to take on more people.
I work part time 22.5 hours a week for them and my job is to turn up, bag up and deliver the mail. I'm given 4.5 hours per day to do this. Trouble is like so many of the other part timers, we turn up and the round hasn't even been prepped. We are then expected to sort the mail and redirections before doing our actual job. This means there is no way we are going to finish unless going well over our hours, which they moan about and say we can't claim it as overtime. I can rarely afford to work over my hours as it is let alone for free as I would then be late for my 2nd job.
As I recall I don't believe I accused you or anybody of posting stories from the media.
Back on topic though, 'No' my order wasn't screwed up because of the strike
I chose to buy it in store instead.