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Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

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snoopy777
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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

Post by Wild Rover »

They won't admit to new working practices which fooked things, just the snow..
watdeadlyone
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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

Post by watdeadlyone »

shafted by mc for months now.walksorted not coming till 2nd feed,2nd van held back.if this is the future roll on retirement coz at the moment it is a joke
blue1873
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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

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watdeadlyone wrote:shafted by mc for months now.walksorted not coming till 2nd feed,2nd van held back.if this is the future roll on retirement coz at the moment it is a joke
Have said for years&years that all MC managers should be made
to do a two year stint in a D/O to understand just what the job
requires ......because they don't care about anything other than
clearing their own sections, in their eyes the delivery postie is
way way down the line of importance! .......FUDS!
Darren Bent
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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

Post by Darren Bent »

Also some walks have no been delivered for 3 days.

I had a hell of day yesterday. As I been out on Thursday night and went to bed about 1am and woke up at 5am

I got a cold, and cramp on my leg and find it a real struggle to complete the duty. due to snow and cancellation on Wednesday post delivery. I feel very very rough last night. I hate December. I am very very grumpy last afternoon. Night Duty was cancelled since Tuesday. Which means increased IPS. I think it is worse day of my working life as postman.

I believe we should not do DSA on christmas eve.
BELIAL
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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

Post by BELIAL »

MC world class mail takes an interesting turn at christmas :hmmmm
It looks like you just bag things up ,mixed flats letters, bung it in a york unsorted and throw it out the doors to be whisked off to some unsuspecting DO. Nothing must get in the way of the quest for the silver star
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pokos27
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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

Post by pokos27 »

in worked nights and the mail centre decides to send the majority of packets at the end of the shift, why didnt they send the stuff down earlier.
The company is run, badly.
giving dsa priority, no other company works with a competitor fixing the price, tesco must be so pleased not paying 45p per item.
blue1873
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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

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BELIAL wrote:MC world class mail takes an interesting turn at christmas :hmmmm
It looks like you just bag things up ,mixed flats letters, bung it in a york unsorted and throw it out the doors to be whisked off to some unsuspecting DO. Nothing must get in the way of the quest for the silver star
Well Belial you have sussed how my MC works
they don,t give a monkeys how it goes out the door
to the D/Os........just get it out,get it out,
get it out. it,s a well thought-out plan...NOT. :d'oh!
SpacePhoenix
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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

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BELIAL wrote:MC world class mail takes an interesting turn at christmas :hmmmm
It looks like you just bag things up ,mixed flats letters, bung it in a york unsorted and throw it out the doors to be whisked off to some unsuspecting DO. Nothing must get in the way of the quest for the silver star
That's probably as a direct result of MCs having :silenced all equipment, running out of yorks (anyone found out where the :silenced they've been hiding them in the system?) and sometimes boxes. No hire equipment or outhouse this year and just 1 hire van spotted, 99% of the hire vehicles that I spotted were either artic cabs and/or artic trailers.

Anyone know if they sent any of the trunk runs up and down the country via rail?
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Post by Stormproof »

General Mannerheim wrote:In a nutshell....US.
The fecking management will come up smelling of roses as normal, as we are all bone idle, soft, namby pamby poofters who are scared of ` a bit of snow` and us grunts will get all the s**t as usual when Tiny feckin Tarquin doesn't get his feckin x box on Crimbo day.
Still we've always got Billy and Dave to save us. :roll: :vcfo
Totally agree, the managers won't get it in the neck as they have'nt got the balls to face the public.
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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enzio
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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

Post by enzio »

blue1873 wrote:
watdeadlyone wrote:shafted by mc for months now.walksorted not coming till 2nd feed,2nd van held back.if this is the future roll on retirement coz at the moment it is a joke
Have said for years&years that all MC managers should be made
to do a two year stint in a D/O to understand just what the job
requires ......because they don't care about anything other than
clearing their own sections, in their eyes the delivery postie is
way way down the line of importance! .......FUDS!
ithink that would be a good plan i worked for 2 years in a mc and then went to a d/o it like night and day i would go back to a mc at th drop of a hat fat chance that :Very Happy
hunnybunny73
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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

Post by hunnybunny73 »

24601 wrote:Nationally they'll just blame the snow.They'll say everything was going great till then :sad:

i think you'll find it will be the posties fault, it will help the management and the governments agenda in turning the public against us before privatisation, the only good point in privatisation is that all the moaning cnuts who complain about service , price etc are in for a hell of a shock and if we do away with the universal service obligation then hopefully they live somewhere unprofitable and get a delivery once a week, also to be able to tell the leeches who use dsa that their letters will now cost 15p more than a public letter to recieve the preferential treatment that they currently recieve , wonder how many of the new super delivery companies would go out of business if they had to actually deliver the mail they get paid for , and before anyone comments, im 100% behind saving the royal mail but i think its now impossible so all we can hope for is a level playing field
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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

Post by krussel »

hunnybunny73 wrote:i think you'll find it will be the posties fault,

Yes i agree it will always be our fault despite working in the worse winter for 200 years.

hunnybunny73 wrote:new super delivery companies would go out of business if they had to actually deliver the mail they get paid for

I thought about this as well and its going to be interesting how long they last when not riding upon our backs. :hmmmm
Rows of houses all bearing down on me........I can feel their blue hands touching me.......All these things in all positions.........All these things will one day take control..........
watdeadlyone
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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

Post by watdeadlyone »

I have always said the dsa companies should have had a limit of 2 years then they had to put in their own delivery system.Then we would have seen those money grabbing parasites run a mile :sad:
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Re: Christmas Shambles(who will be held accountable)

Post by savo »

Ordered some stuff from suppliers 10 days before christmas, still not arrived :sad:

popped down to my old DO, they let me go in and have a look, said that if they had package it would be in one of 3 yorks, all of which were full to overflowing ( and that was just for a few roads around town ) had a quick search but it really was a needle in a haystack job....

No blame on the guys at the coalface, but the numptys at the top have fecked up big time.
'Dear chief secretary, I'm afraid to tell you there's no money left,' ( Liam Byrne MP )