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March 10, 2010
Private companies are Royal Mail’s real enemy

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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:42pm EST by roymayall

The postal industry’s greatest problem is not modernisation, but unfair agreements with private mail companies Read more here.
March 09, 2010
Royal Mail deal is junk

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Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:05am EST by roymayall

Royal Mail’s deal with the CWU is not just bad for postal workers – it will leave our postboxes stuffed with junk mail Read more here.
Royal Mail deal is junk

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Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:05am EST by roymayall

Royal Mail’s deal with the CWU is not just bad for postal workers – it will leave our postboxes stuffed with junk mail Read more here.
Junk mail deluge feared as postal union and Royal Mail reach deal to end strikes

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Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:00am EST by roymayall

Price of averting postal strikes could be rise in junk mail as small print of deal to end dispute removes delivery restrictions Read more here. Tim Webb
The Huddle

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Posted: March 9th, 2010, 5:50am EST by roymayall

Every so often postal workers get called up to the front of the office for a ‘huddle’. This usually involves the manager standing by the front doors, issuing a long-winded statement from head-office about procedures, while the rest of us stand about feeling restive because we are getting behind with our work…. Read more here. [...]
March 08, 2010
Don’t Give Up On The Union

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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:45pm EST by roymayall

In the light of the leaked agreement document. and all the comments on Royal Mail Chat about it, the following is Roy Mayall’s personal response. Please feel free to leave comments if you like, and to forward this link on to your rep. Read more here.
February 22, 2010
Beat the Post

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Posted: February 22nd, 2010, 3:54pm EST by roymayall

We were recently asked to deliver an insulting letter. Insulting to us as postal workers, that is, not to our customers. It was an advertising circular from Clifford James (established 1970), announcing their January sale. The insult was a statement on the front of the bright red envelope. Read more here. [...]
February 14, 2010
Dear Postie, please don’t deliver my letters…

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Posted: February 14th, 2010, 11:25am EST by roymayall

Last years actions by the Postal Workers was supported by everyone I know, and not least because it gave us all extra leaway with our increasing bills! People in my block, a co-operative on the South Bank, discussed it every morning when we bump into each other at our mailboxes in the communal area. The [...]
Modernisation, not neoliberalisation

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Posted: February 13th, 2010, 1:19am EST by roymayall

An excellent post at Lenin’s Tomb, on Channel 4’s recent, dreadful commentary on the Royal Mail, and on the response of the pseudonymous postal worker Roy Mayall to the progamme. As Lenin points out, Mayall’s book Dear Granny Smith is a wonderful read. It’s a great companion piece to Capitalist Realism, in fact, and [...]
February 12, 2010
An Answer to Dispatches

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Posted: February 12th, 2010, 12:47pm EST by roymayall

Simon Barnes, Dispatches, Channel 4. Dear Simon, Thanks for responding to my article in the Guardian’s on-line Comment is free. I think that both of us are agreed that the Royal Mail is in an appalling state, and that something needs to be done. Where we disagree is in the idea that your programme addressed any of the underlying issues…. Read [...]