What back log

[Exrep]

Friggin hell i wish it was light in our office.

By the time i got prepped and tied up it was 12.30 so i loaded up TWO hcts with 15 bundles in each and gave a hct to two casuals and i only had time to take out 5 specials.

Not a light day in our office IF ONLY.

Serious question, how the hell did you get out @ 12:30 ?? Dont take that the wrong way btw, just dont get it ? How much IPS did you do and what time do you start work etc ??

Start at 06.15 on the ips at 06.30 till 08.15 had 12 trays of mail 2 packets bags and 10 bundles of mech and i had to prep D2DS time just vanished i new i should have taken a picy of my fitting as it was bursting then you would see where i was coming from but sadly couldnt be arsed to take a picy.

[Exrep]

613 drops town walk but gets absolutely snotted with everythink think the distance it covers is just under 10km

[munch]

Quiet Tuesday's turn into quiet wednesdays and then thursdays and then we have posties being laid of everywhere!!!! This is the result of strike action!!!! Do you think that it is acceptable to finish at 12 when you are paid till 1 or 2 in the afternoon. If you worked in a factory and there was no work you would be sent home to make the hours up later on in the week!! Does reason and being sensible mean anything to anyone anymore!!!!

we didnt ask for job and finish royal mail used it to get us to agree to change things. now they see it doesnt work toi benfit them they are moaning about it. if you want to question sense and being reasonable go to the managers at royal mail and the rules they make and then change every 5 mins. we dont make the rules we just follow them.

[montriff]

Quite heavy in our office with loads of flats ,but not many packets ,though i did have 14 regs and recordeds as well

[whitemoor66]

Quiet Tuesday's turn into quiet wednesdays and then thursdays and then we have posties being laid of everywhere!!!! This is the result of strike action!!!! Do you think that it is acceptable to finish at 12 when you are paid till 1 or 2 in the afternoon. If you worked in a factory and there was no work you would be sent home to make the hours up later on in the week!! Does reason and being sensible mean anything to anyone anymore!!!!

What would you do pet, if you had finished all the tasks set before you for that day? How would you fill your time? Paint your nails? The Royal Mail is not a factory. Lots of people have jobs that are not production line work. Perhaps you have spent too much time in factories. Go to evening classes, broaden your skills and perhaps you might not have to work in a factory my love. Good first post on this forum BTW.

[OnAFlyer]

Quiet wednesdays and thursdays my arse ! Havent had a quiet weds/thurs/fri/sat for 10 years ,and thats the truth!!

Also a lot get done early, me included, because we work faster than we should , thats the incentive to get the job done, were happy coz home early ,customers happy coz early post. If they make us work to our time ,99% will start on time, do the job properly , and leave in every day , then take our time and do it at a normal pace and maybe live 5 yrs longer and die at 75 instead of 70 ! Also we`ll have to come back to sign in/out, which involves travelling time, meal breaks etc etc etc, so no one should really be complaining, especially RM. Its the only job in the world were you get punished for being efficient. The better you are at it the more you get shafted

Isn't that the truth!

[tmac]

Post deleted as it used the manager argument and was therefore against the rules.

[catshole]

most of Tuesdays mail was pushed out last week the likes of mail sort and any thing else they had

[osiris]

Easier than a normal day at our place, almost like nothing has happened.

[zuvinrat]

today will be even better cause its my day off

[rhino49]

today will be even better cause its my day off

Mine too Zuvinrat and boy do I need it, and I have to agree with Ricky Bruch's comments. I've worked in other business's over a 44 year working life and have never been in one that gets anywhere near the amount of effort that posties put in over their working day. To even attempt to reach RM's required standards keeps you under constant pressure for all your contracted hours and sometimes beyond them.

[OnAFlyer]

Normal Wednesday today, faihrly heavy but certainly not what i'd expect after a strike. Either there's a load of mail stuck somewhere or there is no backlog.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

not far from you TBT,not 1 worker scabbed in our office (1 went to another) and we were as quiet as a quiet tuesday

where is the backlog?

Gone now.

I think the back log cleared the MC by Saturday but as we did not extend and worked to the 318s the back log was local and confined to the office. Although even today we got crash sorting packets sent down in cardboard shrouds (all intra but not all for post code) today so the MC must have been under some pressure for some reason.

[music4essex]

Our Office was really heavy today and looking at the postmark some where a few days old more then normal
Just had the SKy mags in should be held up for non deivery SAT
Essex mum

[Gahagans Bedsheets]

Our sky mags were in today but held back - im thinking that the thought is that IF we strike 2moro there will be no mail centre wagon @ 615am as normal, so they`ll dump the sky out to make sure no one gets off lightly