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Post Offices to close at 12pm Christmas Eve

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Blade Runner
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Re: Post Offices to close at 12pm Christmas Eve

Post by Blade Runner »

All Postoffices in our area close at 12:00 Noon. Delivery office and enquiry office open until 17:00. Delivery staff on job and knock, collection staff have to work thier full hours Xmas eve. I'm one of the one's working full hours until 17:00.
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Lounge Lizard
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Re: Post Offices to close at 12pm Christmas Eve

Post by Lounge Lizard »

custard wrote:
slinger wrote:
custard wrote:
slinger wrote:Pouching off? - we have to sign out, so we always have to go back.
takes me 20 minutes by van to get back,so for the walkers its a non starter
I take it you walk/public transport home. I just find it bizarre that people go straight home after their last letter and not go back to take their bags back and sign out.

i have to take the van back to the DO
i do a non parking park and loop duty but we dont do it together as theres no parking(dont you love modernisation?)
so once back at the DO i drive home in my car
If the Delivery Office is locked up just drive the van home and back in on Tuesday morning.
Thunderthighs
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Re: Post Offices to close at 12pm Christmas Eve

Post by Thunderthighs »

Was told I'm working 6am til 11am, then 10am til 3pm was my shift. So...where's this 12noon coming from?
The land of RM Fantasy, perhaps?
"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas..."

Also, when I ASK for Saturdays off, don't get it.
But...this week, guess what day off I got?
Cigar to that man in the back, YES! Saturday.
RM Policy; We're flexible, as long as the flexibilty bends our way only.
S6 Stroller
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Re: Post Offices to close at 12pm Christmas Eve

Post by S6 Stroller »

Thunderthighs wrote:Was told I'm working 6am til 11am, then 10am til 3pm was my shift. So...where's this 12noon coming from?
The land of RM Fantasy, perhaps?
"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas..."

Also, when I ASK for Saturdays off, don't get it.
But...this week, guess what day off I got?
Cigar to that man in the back, YES! Saturday.
RM Policy; We're flexible, as long as the flexibilty bends our way only.
That is so true. Just got my annual leave form for next year. Of my 23.5 day entitlement, I have been allocated 18 days over Apr/May and the remaining days not until Jan 2011! Granted, I didn't request any specific weeks off because I wasn't really that fussed but I seriously didn't expect this was a possibility.
not me
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Re: Post Offices to close at 12pm Christmas Eve

Post by not me »

Lounge Lizard wrote:
custard wrote:
slinger wrote:
custard wrote:
slinger wrote:Pouching off? - we have to sign out, so we always have to go back.
takes me 20 minutes by van to get back,so for the walkers its a non starter
I take it you walk/public transport home. I just find it bizarre that people go straight home after their last letter and not go back to take their bags back and sign out.

i have to take the van back to the DO
i do a non parking park and loop duty but we dont do it together as theres no parking(dont you love modernisation?)
so once back at the DO i drive home in my car
If the Delivery Office is locked up just drive the van home and back in on Tuesday morning.

our DO is open to 7pm so its always open for my return
anyway the vans no good to me as i need my car for picking up my boy from nursery
some get vans home but my face doesnt fit :roll: