The Oban Times

Action is needed to address problems at post office

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I am writing this email after reading your recent article about the Oban Post Office and as a former postman I can fully agree with the ‘whistleblo­wer’s’ letter.

I left the post office due to a number of issues. First and foremost, the management have no clue what they are doing.

They have no people skills and just constantly undermine the long-term hard-working postmen and women there.

They seem to be on a witch-hunt to chase the long-term staff out the door and replace with part-time staff which will save costs in wages.

This has led to extremely low staff morale and, as your article mentions, a lot of people leaving and going off sick due to stress.

I, in particular, felt victimised and also lodged a complaint with my union after consulting the anti-bullying policy.

So the post office spokespers­on in the article who said they have had no complaints is telling lies, which does not surprise me in the slightest.

In general, the long-term staff are being treated like naughty school children and not being trusted to do their jobs. This includes people who have been doing the job 30-plus years.

The Royal Mail head office needs to acknowledg­e the staff changes and realise that there is a massive underlying problem, instead of denying everything and making out things are just fine in Oban.

The main problem is the management changes that have happened and action needs to be taken before they lose any more of their long-term staff and also before anyone else has to be referred off work by a doctor due to stress.

I would ask the public to please be patient with the current staff as they are doing their very best in a dire working situation. Name and address supplied.

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