[Gllug] Someone with a postcode database do me a favour please? Suspicious repeated disappearance of computer deliveries...

[Caroline Ford]

2008/5/24 M.J. Smith <indigojo_uk at yahoo.co.uk>:
> Hi there,
>
> I've worked for various delivery companies and the calibre of staff in many
> of them has definitely gone down.  Nowadays it's definitely not old white
> working-class at all; it's mostly new immigrants and many of them don't
> speak good English.  Definitely I've found Parcelforce in south London
> (since closed) and Lynx (now part of UPS) in both Paddington and their new
> home of Kentish Town to be the most frustrating to work with.  The north
> London Parcelforce depot I worked at for a while in 2002 or so was pretty
> good to work in IIRC.
>
> Generally, I agree with your assessment of how these kinds of jobs have lost
> status over the past decade or two.  In the case of the postal service, it
> has a lot to do with the internet and the fact that most people don't need
> to post letters anymore; they just email (or fax).  With other jobs, I think
> the fall from grace of the unions has much to do with it - there's not the
> pride in being "a worker" anymore.
>
> However, I would not use either of the companies I mentioned to send
> anything valuable.

As an ex Royal Mail worker (xmas job) I basically agree. Low status,
poorly paid and mostly casual I guess.

I've had to stop buying stuff mail order as it never gets here..

Caroline
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