How long does it take to get offered a full time contract

[OnAFlyer]

The only chance of getting a FT contract is to keep an eye out for when a really bad FT duty (if you have FT duties rather than FT Posties) comes up and apply for it. I did that and got a FT contract very quickly indeed. However people at my office who did not like the look of the duty are still on PT contracts and some have been there since PT duties were introduced.

Exactly what I did, full time in well under a year and I've never looked back.

You have absolutely zero chance of that in some offices, as vacant duties are never given to anyone. We had over a dozen vacant FT duties at one point, all filled with leave reserves or PT staff who had the walk prepped for them. The least amount of time served i've known someone get FT in my office (in the last 10 years anyway) has been 7 or so years.

We recently had a repick and to get a fixed FT duty you needed 12yrs minimum, although a few with 10yrs or so got a FT cover duty as they could drive. That meant some with 10/11 years who couldn't or wouldn't drive got nothing but leave reserve duties though.

Anyone with less than that didn't have a prayer of FT.

[dvbuk55]

A lot of people from my office got bumped up to full time as our revisions were kicking off, me included. We were lucky I guess but it can happen, I had been with RM for about 7-8 months.

A few of our PTs got made up on our revision last year BUT they were only temporary then and are still temporary now almost a year later. Their part time contract still stands of course.

[IloveMYredTROLLEY!]

We have today had four temporary FT duties advertised today (or at least I spotted them today for the first time), one reserve and three hybrid (delivery/collection) ones. Why temporary, for crying out loud? They will not be touched with a barge pole, the last lot of hybrids took three months or more to get their weekly wages backdated to account for their upping of hours!