Post Office Apology Letter

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Incredibly wasteful mailshot has just gone 'round announcing that INSTEAD of compensation for recent postal strikes, Post Office is making donation to Olympic bid fund on behalf of us all, as gesture of goodwill, because customers are not eligible for compensation due to strikes.

If you get one of these, please send it back to 148 Old Street etc. without postage.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god, I am sooo glad **** is not in today

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

but she works in the [sensitive], it's nothing to do with her surely?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont know, i kind of think its her fault.

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

**** was telling me how she can't wait to be part of a trust instead of part of the Royal Mail as they are FOS.

If you are a freelancer who has lost cheques because of the strike and has incurred bank charges as a result you do not want to even think of the cost of this mailshot.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, it'll be worth every penny in nine years time!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway, what abt those customers who are desperate for the Olympics to be someplace else?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

very true Suzy, but this sort of thing usually ends up reverbarating round the whole place, especially if the sorters decide to have another strike and management are called in to sort

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Mailshot doesn't really cost them anything except pretty minimal printing costs. Sending it back without postage will equally cost them nothing as they will bin it.

Banks, wrt students loans cheques being delayed have actually been very good. Though with proper grown ups that they have a surly relationship with I'm sure this is different.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

if i ever freelance again i'm giving the company my Paypal address instead

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just written 'gesture of goodwill, MY ARSE' on the inside and posted it back to them (yes with my address hacked out, there were five envelopes sent to Occupier on the mat). My old neighbour Chris works in the sorting office at _______ __________ which is where I assume it will go, and I think of him happily sorting any message that tells A**** L******* he's a bit of a twunt.

I am very, very tired of companies taking zero responsibility for fuckups and hiding behind 'goodwill gestures' as compensation.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

erm, a thread that mentions AL, V and where she works, and the dissing of the same? can we have some moderated protection please?

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

You're right Chris, soz.

Any bad feeling between me and my bank is completely down to not being paid on time for work I turned in on time.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Can freelancers use the European laws re payment of goods and serices aged over 30 days being able to charge interest. And agreed there is a difference between being good (ie not charging you overdraft) and giving you the money that you would have had a week ago to spend.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete, those laws are seldom worth the paper they're written on in a normal capitalist commercial environment. If I tried to add £30 costs for a late cheque I'd find that source of work would probably dry up as a result.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Cf 'kill fees' -- do they exist? And if they did, is it worth it?

― Nu-Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

A kill fee is usually half of what you would get if the piece ran, sometimes ALL if it spikes at the last minute. If you haven't signed a contract, it's usually half.

In the US it is possible for journalists to live on their kill fees - it's more common there to have a kill in the first place. In the UK they tend to run everything they ask for.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

(is that protected enuff?)

― passing x-mod s (mark s), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Half of jack shit = Nu St4t3sm4n kill fee, then.

― Nu-Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

she's the only one in that department with that initial mark, can you kill the name and the dept? ta

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Basically the rule of thumb is to confine complaints to the 'good cop' that works in the relevant publication's accounts department.

Most organised publications can arrange to pay most freelancers by BACS.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, this is what struck me about the banks being nice. They hinted to us we would be better off paying stuff by BACS. No fair, I LIKE writing cheques for £20,000 quid.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

so they can't be cashed?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I suppose some might consider pounds quid to be a currency even if it overkill.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I got angry about this yesterday. I have kept the letter but am not quite sure what is correct to do with it. Writing "my arse" on it wouldn't be satisfying enough for me.

I am trying not to get angry again so instead I shall go eat chips. Opium of masses underrated ect.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't you want the Oilimpics?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I was happy for them to go on strike for the reasons they gave. But like those incredibly 'spun' apologies (which say BAD STRIKERS! INCONVENIENCING OUR CUSTOMERS!) you get because of LU strikes, AL's 'personal' apology to Occupiers across London is not personal, nor much of an apology. Which is why he can stick it in his bumhole.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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