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The "How was your day" thread.

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
dohnut
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Post by dohnut »

Nightmare, 9 heavy bags, all this council tax letters over 600, plus all the other junk was finished for 3.15 nice, now bed :crazy:
johnsonrmc
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Post by johnsonrmc »

Bad , very bad, but its all a figment of my imagination as I have been told `Volumes` are down!! Now who said that?
Up Hill Down Hill
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Post by Up Hill Down Hill »

Pretty heavy today as well

Did some over time and wasn't home till 4...

Hopefully tomorrow ill be better...
dohnut
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Post by dohnut »

Up Hill Down Hill wrote:Pretty heavy today as well

Did some over time and wasn't home till 4...

Hopefully tomorrow ill be better...
Ive come to the conclusion tommorow is always worse lol.
mucker
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Post by mucker »

dohnut wrote:
Up Hill Down Hill wrote:Pretty heavy today as well

Did some over time and wasn't home till 4...

Hopefully tomorrow ill be better...
Ive come to the conclusion tommorow is always worse lol.
same as allways shite :cfo :lfo
Stormproof
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Post by Stormproof »

Great day today that was because it was my day off :Very Happy back to the same old cr@p tomorrow :nervous
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets


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coaster
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Post by coaster »

dohnut wrote:
Up Hill Down Hill wrote:Pretty heavy today as well

Did some over time and wasn't home till 4...

Hopefully tomorrow ill be better...
Ive come to the conclusion tommorow is always worse lol.
lol, yep!
k979aaa
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Post by k979aaa »

dohnut wrote:
Up Hill Down Hill wrote:Pretty heavy today as well

Did some over time and wasn't home till 4...

Hopefully tomorrow ill be better...
Ive come to the conclusion tommorow is always worse lol.
Don't look at that way for TOMORROW IS JUST ANOTHER DAY!.
pinstripe
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Post by pinstripe »

k979aaa wrote:
dohnut wrote:
Up Hill Down Hill wrote:Pretty heavy today as well

Did some over time and wasn't home till 4...

Hopefully tomorrow ill be better...
Ive come to the conclusion tommorow is always worse lol.
Don't look at that way for TOMORROW IS JUST ANOTHER DAY!.
I thought the world was ending tomorrow. If it isn't I can see a very bad day ahead, it always is over Easter bank holidays. Still Friday should be good.
rhino49
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From the sublime to the ridiculous.........

Post by rhino49 »

....... Tuesday, 4 underweight bags and finished well within my time - Wednesday 1:45 hours over with 8 bags. Tuesday was within time despite WTL, a fire drill and having to queue whilst our bag weighing was checked for a health and safety exercise, Wednesday was over because of a huge workload and being on the IPS 'til nine oclock.

Surely the answer to disparities like this is in streaming and distribution and not flexing a workforce so that it doesn't really know what to expect from one day to the other. Only first class mail should go through regardless - everything else and particularly DSA (with no apparent priority marking) should be streamed to suit the delivery service of the business instead of sending postmen to bed after work exhausted and disillusioned about the ability of it's management to organise a piss up in a brewery.
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baldrick
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Post by baldrick »

Seemed quieter today. It's been really heavy since last Friday.
The super dooper computerised packet sorting machines at HWDC http://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/forum/vi ... ight=#9985
broke down last Friday, and artic after artic of mail has been sent to us
over the last few days.
MC has been bursting at the seams for the last few days - haven't seen it
so full since the strikes last year.

Good job they've got us mere humans as backup.
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coaster
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Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous.........

Post by coaster »

rhino49 wrote:....... Tuesday, 4 underweight bags and finished well within my time - Wednesday 1:45 hours over with 8 bags. Tuesday was within time despite WTL, a fire drill and having to queue whilst our bag weighing was checked for a health and safety exercise, Wednesday was over because of a huge workload and being on the IPS 'til nine oclock.

Surely the answer to disparities like this is in streaming and distribution and not flexing a workforce so that it doesn't really know what to expect from one day to the other. Only first class mail should go through regardless - everything else and particularly DSA (with no apparent priority marking) should be streamed to suit the delivery service of the business instead of sending postmen to bed after work exhausted and disillusioned about the ability of it's management to organise a piss up in a brewery.
:Applause
saru
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Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous.........

Post by saru »

coaster wrote:
rhino49 wrote:....... Tuesday, 4 underweight bags and finished well within my time - Wednesday 1:45 hours over with 8 bags. Tuesday was within time despite WTL, a fire drill and having to queue whilst our bag weighing was checked for a health and safety exercise, Wednesday was over because of a huge workload and being on the IPS 'til nine oclock.

Surely the answer to disparities like this is in streaming and distribution and not flexing a workforce so that it doesn't really know what to expect from one day to the other. Only first class mail should go through regardless - everything else and particularly DSA (with no apparent priority marking) should be streamed to suit the delivery service of the business instead of sending postmen to bed after work exhausted and disillusioned about the ability of it's management to organise a piss up in a brewery.
:Applause
Very, very well said!
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DirtyHarry
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Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous.........

Post by DirtyHarry »

rhino49 wrote:....... Tuesday, 4 underweight bags and finished well within my time - Wednesday 1:45 hours over with 8 bags. Tuesday was within time despite WTL, a fire drill and having to queue whilst our bag weighing was checked for a health and safety exercise, Wednesday was over because of a huge workload and being on the IPS 'til nine oclock.

Surely the answer to disparities like this is in streaming and distribution and not flexing a workforce so that it doesn't really know what to expect from one day to the other. Only first class mail should go through regardless - everything else and particularly DSA (with no apparent priority marking) should be streamed to suit the delivery service of the business instead of sending postmen to bed after work exhausted and disillusioned about the ability of it's management to organise a piss up in a brewery.
Amen to that, brother. :Applause :Applause :Applause :Applause
TrueBlueTerrier
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Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous.........

Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

rhino49 wrote:....... Tuesday, 4 underweight bags and finished well within my time - Wednesday 1:45 hours over with 8 bags. Tuesday was within time despite WTL, a fire drill and having to queue whilst our bag weighing was checked for a health and safety exercise, Wednesday was over because of a huge workload and being on the IPS 'til nine oclock.

Surely the answer to disparities like this is in streaming and distribution and not flexing a workforce so that it doesn't really know what to expect from one day to the other. Only first class mail should go through regardless - everything else and particularly DSA (with no apparent priority marking) should be streamed to suit the delivery service of the business instead of sending postmen to bed after work exhausted and disillusioned about the ability of it's management to organise a piss up in a brewery.

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Problem may not be local management or even middle management. Its AL and AC who seem to be making Royal Mail a cash cow for the DSA operators and jump at every whim and demand of those same self "competitors"
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