Roy Mayall
Roy Mayall is a pseudonym for a postal worker who has been in the job for about five years and works in a delivery office somewhere in the south-east of England. He writes a blog at roymayall.wordpress.com
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Roy Mayall: Royal Mail's management don't regard you as customers but recipients, simply a way to deliver returns to their investors
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Roy Mayall: If private companies can pick the best bits of the network, the obligation to deliver to all is undermined. That's why we're considering action
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Roy Mayall: Royal Mail may be viewed with a high level of affection by the public now, but will that still be the case after it's privatised?
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Roy Mayall: The amount of lost or delayed mail is no surprise – ill-conceived new working methods have slowed postal workers down
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Roy Mayall: A Panorama programme on postal junk was compelling, but didn't mention that the market is skewed against Royal Mail
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Roy Mayall: As profits dive, it's clear this management isn't modernising, it's running the company into the ground – but why?
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Roy Mayall: Vince Cable needs to look beyond the headline figures and develop a long-term solution to Royal Mail's problems
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Postal worker Roy Mayall loves his job – the fresh air, the early starts, even the Christmas rush. But this year it's not quite so much fun
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Roy Mayall: The thought of striking managers caused hilarity in the posties' smoking shed this morning. The thought of privatisation didn't
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Roy Mayall: Vince Cable has spoken: Royal Mail is to be privatised. My colleagues wonder whether things can possibly get any worse
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Roy Mayall: New sorting machines have taken the last skill from our job and pushed back delivery times. More change, not for the better
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Roy Mayall: Vince Cable's proposal will mean a loss of public control, a loss of profits and a new tier of costly management
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Roy Mayall: Visit our delivery offices, Mr Cable, and you'll see how Royal Mail 'modernisation' is a disaster but there's much worth saving here
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Roy Mayall: Election leaflets might seem a relic in the age of TV debates, but they do serve an important function for smaller parties
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Roy Mayall: Postal workers will soon be under pressure to deliver junk mail to every household
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Roy Mayall: Salisbury's independent candidate, modelled on the mythological king, seems more real than most politicians
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Roy Mayall: None of the main party manifestos has the solution to Royal Mail's problems. Finland does
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Roy Mayall: Royal Mail wants us to stop delivering on bicycles and drive vans instead – a move at odds with sustainable transport policy
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Roy Mayall: Monday's Dispatches programme was an exercise in one-sided journalism. Where was the coherent analysis?
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Roy Mayall: As Panorama showed, the idea that posties' loads are falling is nonsense – particularly when we have to carry our rivals' mail
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Roy Mayall: Dog attacks on postal workers are on the rise. But, with the right information and employment conditions, most can be avoided
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Roy Mayall: Postal workers fear the CWU is not interested in their position. Here are a few suggestions as to how it could enter negotiations
The privatised Royal Mail will get a Christmas bonanza – but not us posties