Fairfax has this evening contacted NANA President Andrew Packham and advised that they will delay the implementation of the delivery changes for the TV Guide for a week. They will post details on the Connect site for newsagents. NANA will have more to say about this tomorrow.
Hopefully, commonsense will prevail and Fairfax will take on board the details of challenges associated with their proposed TV Guide move as articulated y NANA, the ANF and many newsagents through forums like this place and not proceed at all.
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goes to show fairfax don’t have enough balls to mass terminate all the delivery newsagents.
“united we stand………”
now if we can use this momentum on the other pain in the arse………
I hope this means they are prepared to have some meaningfull dialogue on the issue with NANA and the ANF. I would love to have a debate with the so-called Distributors advisory group (referred to in earlier communication by Fairfax to Andrew Packham), about the distribution logistics of this whole proposal.
Replay of the Grand Final?
Fairfax will hope the anger subsides! And then they will strike again – its called out-sourcing. Will still not buy Fairfax Publications until a definite retraction of this is given.
This is far from victory for us newsagents, we can’t let our guard down just because they’ve delayed it a week. We have to keep working towards a positive outcome that works for all involved and doesn’t just create another substantial delivery cost to newsagents with next to no compensation.
Also spoke to a fairfax driver tonight and it seems they’ve been kept in the dark more than us. He has not been informed of any changes therefore there hasn’t been any adjustment to departure times which is obviously nescessary due to their extra work load. So if it went ahead this weekend on top of dealing with the ‘the guide’ changes the papers would have been much later than usual.
I wish I had logged on this forum earlier. Just spent two hours on computer configuring the delivery run for the Monday TV guide (having decided to ignore Fairfax’s instruction regarding which day should customer receive the guide, all sunday subscriber will get their guide on sunday, the rest on monday).
Han,
You need to get talking with all your surrounding newsagent’s and all agree to stand up and not deliver like the rest. We’ve managed to force fairfax to delay it and the next step is to scrap it totally.
WE ARE NOT SLAVES.TELL THEM TO GO TRUCK EM SELVES.WEVE GOT BETTER THINGS TODO THAN BUST OUR ARSES FOR 15C ACOPY. STINGY PRICKS
Well, well, well. This afternoon we get our very first advice regarding this whole farce. To go to Connect to see what is happening. Nobody from Fairfax has told us anything yet. We learned about it on this blog.
I’ll bet the reps are laying real low. I feel a bit sorry for the poor buggers. Spesh the downsized ones up here – They’ve been treated no better.