The "How was your day" thread.

[majeed]

last letter 3.30

...what've you been up to, laddy? Talking with the old lady natives, eh? Eh?

[majeed]

First Letter 09:50 and last letter 14:00 - boss can't complain when I ask for a 1/2 hour back - he was the one late with the bag drop 1/2hr late

...curiously, our driver was about half an hour late too: it seems it's happening in a lot of places; perhaps they're all getting into hibernation mode for the Autumn...

[majeed]

...all well and good if you've got a pouch as big as a bus. Remember: if you can't deliver them then you're going to be carrying them around your walk... unless you're using your car

...well, it puts you between a rock and a hard place: you need to discuss it with your manager, I guess: but if there in no bag box or post office provision, then, what can you do?

[ad0128]

only people i spoke to today where people asking why i'm so late

told them i'd do their street first the rest of week.........the guy on day off will love that


A big part of why i was late was.....never done duty before, manager didnt know where drop boxes where and how to split it, first letter 11.20, it was pissing rain, half of second bundle had actually been demolished and didnt exist (well some did)
and i was so late service buttons were off......which caused further lateness. Booked 90 minutes £££££

tuesday......bring it on........double duty me!!!.......give me some lapsing!!!!! i dont need a break......i'm hardcore!! Dont worry i'll walk back to office and carry me drop bags out on my bmx!

refill my Jack danield mrs!!

[majeed]

only people i spoke to today where people asking why i'm so late

told them i'd do their street first the rest of week.........the guy on day off will love that


A big part of why i was late was.....never done duty before, manager didnt know where drop boxes where and how to split it, first letter 11.20, it was pissing rain, half of second bundle had actually been demolished and didnt exist (well some did)
and i was so late service buttons were off......which caused further lateness. Booked 90 minutes £££££

tuesday......bring it on........double duty me!!!.......give me some lapsing!!!!! i dont need a break......i'm hardcore!! Dont worry i'll walk back to office and carry me drop bags out on my bmx!

refill my Jack danield mrs!!

...now THAT'S telling it like it is! You sound like a new postie - getting put here, there and everywhere. Regarding the "first street" issue: there is this young man on one of the walks that I sometimes do, and he has a habit of finding me somewhere on the walk and asking what time I will be delivering to his address. In most cases, I tell him that I don't know (because usually it's been that long since I last did the walk regularly, that I've lost account of the timings). He then finds me somewhere else and asks me again. The penultimate time this happened, he wanted to know why other postmen do his street earlier, so I explained that was probably because they either have cars, and can do the walk more quickly or they do the walk according to the board or both of these things. People at the end of a walk sometimes complain about the late mail, whereas, the people at the start of the walk don't complain. The comments about getting mail at 2am in morning (I exaggerate) are about two years out of date: the customer has still not caught up with the notion that the postman no longer comes in the middle of the night any more.

Rain? Well, I think we can safely say that is going to become a regular feature, now, for most parts of the countries. Taking your own bags out? I don't know about hardcore - you sound madly (sarcastic?)! ££££? Well, don't shoot yourself in the foot with the taxman's gun: too much overtime makes Mr Bank Manager a dull boy!

[lazyjack]

Well 2-day started at 6am, Totaly Humped by a bulk posting (Very unusual these days ) Managed to get onto own frames by 8.15am out on street by about 10.15 finished at 2.50pm, No summer lapsing at all 2-day due to the Humping just another typical day in the irvine office

[majeed]

Well 2-day started at 6am, Totaly Humped by a bulk posting (Very unusual these days ) Managed to get onto own frames by 8.15am out on street by about 10.15 finished at 2.50pm, No summer lapsing at all 2-day due to the Humping just another typical day in the irvine office

...rest in peace.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

First letter 0945 - last 1245 - bugger made up that 40 minutes they owed me from yesterday.

[ad0128]

a duty i knew (i done it once) but its a long slog with one bugger of a bag

booked 30 mins

p.s. i'd like to wish the new guys, with 1 days training, a good day today. I knew royal mail cared!

[shelanda]

our office used to run like clockwork now often have "the resourcing walk" left on the frame so managers come in and deliver it, told em hope they keep fit for chrismas cos can see that being, ermm interesting!! They think they have it bad now but more and more posties getting pi**ed off and learning to do job properly,I wonder how long before the doms get a backbone!!!

[majeed]

any one else carrying on with the summer working ?,
we have been told it is carrying on as long as managers want us to ,with the result that as we have no night sorters and have to sort for an hour and half we are lucky to start our own deliveries at 11am so we are unable to finish our deliveries and if we dont want the OT break off, as the mail is so heavy , piling up in the office now some of us dont even complete the previous days break offs ,with the results that people dont get there mail for days at a time.
the managers have decided that they are going to keep us in as long as possible in the morning,as they now dont have to cover break offs and can sit in there nice warm dry offices all day.(pissing down here )leaving the mail in the bags for us to sort the next day making us even later,
can any on beat this for organisation .

We stopped Summer time savings this week : the word quickly went around on the grape vine, which was I how I found out. My line manager confirmed the situation and I booked my first pressure OT today. I have no idea what was going on with the Mailsort today: it was absolutely berserk! One or two guys in my district put it down to the Ramadan begging letters: sure enough, about 90% were begging letters: there was about a week's worth. The driver left me and the manager took me out. First letter 11:05. Last letter 15:40. Nine bags and lots of back walking, as there are usually only five bags, but today they would have been so heavy what with Sky, Mailsort, catalogues, D2D's and light bulbs. Also had to carry outdoor gear. Had been lovely weather all day until I was on my way back to a bag drop and I got caught in a heavy rain shower. I got soaked but just as I'd got myself dry and put on the outdoor gear, the rain cleared and it was bright sunshine again. Also, had to deal with about a week's worth of kill-offs, as the regular postie is off with a dog bite and bad leg, and the cover posties must have been changed every day, so nobody has been doing the kill-offs. The customers all seemed relatively friendly today with no lurkers, cheeky kids, bitey dogs or chatty old ladies (perhaps it's the sunshine which is responsible). OT came to two and a half hours - three and a half, if you include the hour earlier I came in. I am tired and waiting to break my fast. Out!

[ad0128]

busiest day for quite some time, hammered with mail and my parcel driver seemed to 'forget' his parcels but at least i got out quick on a round i know very well. Only 1 P739 required

A new duty awaits on friday after a day off........FLATS the whole duty i believe

[TrueBlueTerrier]

A day of 2 halfs - Half the coded came late - half the people were missing from IPS, half my packets were bulbs, did 2 halves of my walk, and the first half of the day was sunny and bright and the 2nd half got soaked to the skin.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

another day,another load of breakoffs, managers have given up now, started delivering around 11 30, bought half delivery back, along with at least 40 others, have to put in the the frames tomorrow , so out late again , wonder what will happen then? we are curently getting 2 .15 to do 4 hour deliveries
can any one out there beat this?

Don't they see if they don't sort it out soon at some point you will taking so long to sort yesterdays cut-offs and that days mail that you may not even get out to the deliveries. IMHO its not flexibility, or lapsing (as envisaged), or even modernisation. Its plain and simple cuts for cuts sake made worse by Panic management. (What they use to call Management by fire fighting, ignore everything till you have to do something, sort that at the expense of everything else, and then move onto the next biggest fiasco that the bosses above might notice.)

[majeed]

A day of 2 halfs - Half the coded came late - half the people were missing from IPS, half my packets were bulbs, did 2 halves of my walk, and the first half of the day was sunny and bright and the 2nd half got soaked to the skin.

Sounds like Bradistan! Oh - I got bit by a dog and spent the afternoon in A+E. I'm not fasting now! One manager got several people to come in and deliver nine bags of mail - I'd just started the walk. First letter at 11:45am; last letter at 12:06. Antibiotics at 17:00. Dog put down: sometime this week.