IloveMYredTROLLEY! wrote:The problem is that the porters tend not to keep in sync with the walk preppers, so while some frames can be swamped in "cleared down" trays, other preppers end up regularly clearing down themselves to keep the walk prep ticking over. And that's before we even talk about the Monday morning chaos of the porters needing to also distribute all the D2D inbetween clearing IPS...
well, for the time being the dom,s put earlies in, and they put the d2ds out on a monday, or a saturday if you,re daft enough to get back to the office sooner than you,re finishing time. the porters(or ''bell hop, as we call them fondly ) dont have time to put them out.
So on one hand you have a gazillian pounds spent on super dooper sorting machines to.........cut down on the sorting,then you have a (what's a bit lower than a gazillian) pounds spent on new frames,kit,wotevas and ideas to..........speed up the sorting that hasn't been done by the super dooper thingies bought with the gazillain pounds.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been. My BFF Clash The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
POSTMAN wrote:So on one hand you have a gazillian pounds spent on super dooper sorting machines to.........cut down on the sorting,then you have a (what's a bit lower than a gazillian) pounds spent on new frames,kit,wotevas and ideas to..........speed up the sorting that hasn't been done by the super dooper thingies bought with the gazillain pounds.
On the one hand RM state that mail, and we can only assume it is machineable mail, is in a clearly defined decline whilst non machineable mail such as flats, small packets, large packets has an upward curve and requires hand sorting and so it makes sense to expend a large amount on machinery that clearly must have a defined declining life span................still not to worry we could be getting £200, pro rata, less tax and insurance over the next two years.
POSTMAN wrote:So on one hand you have a gazillian pounds spent on super dooper sorting machines to.........cut down on the sorting,then you have a (what's a bit lower than a gazillian) pounds spent on new frames,kit,wotevas and ideas to..........speed up the sorting that hasn't been done by the super dooper thingies bought with the gazillain pounds.
well this is it postman, when we were being sold this crap deal by our reps(area included) they were going round offices to explain to us why we should accecpt unlimited d2d as part of this deal as when these ''super dooper'' machines come in, they would have to justify the indoor work as there would,nt be any once the machines came in. they said ''the machines are going to ''oblterate'' indoor work. ha. what a geet big lie. sooooold down the riverrrrrr. we,ve got more indoor work now than we,ve EVER had. sorters are coming in early by upto an hour on overtime, and are still sorting at 20 to 9. thats 3 and a half hours of sorting of mail thats NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE. aye we were well and truly stiched on this one mate. happy days.
and if the mail volumes ARE falling as they keep trying to ''brainwash'' us, then why would we need to spend gazillions on sorting machines. that are going to end up not fit for purpose as there will eventually be no mail. happy days again.
daveyeff wrote: we,ve got more indoor work now than we,ve EVER had.
We used to have 12 people on IPS sorting letters for one half of the office.
We now have 1, occasionally 2.
What has happened to the excess time clash?
Over the years:
A few VRs, a few sackings, IHR and ....... D2D into workload
Yours must be a very small office. We have two CSS machines, new backless fittings, about 12 on packets, 3 on large parcels and about 25 on IPS letters and flats coming off at about 8.40 and sometimes everyone even the double preppers have to go on sorting.
Straight4ward wrote:What the f*ck is this sh*t, FT ?
From your list
Task 46a - DP IPS Fillets - Best Practice Examples [R]
I kid you not!
Somebody's making this stuff up.
Idiot's guide to labelling and positioning the boxes on an IPS frame.
• Opportunities to introduce a more cost effective / easier way to label fillets eg. Potential options to remove requirement for ‘Hot Press’. – Sliding Fillet options and computer printouts of labels similar to those used on Prep.
• Adoption of colour schemes to ease cleardowns.
• The Optimum process to reverse IPS fittings.
daveyeff wrote: we,ve got more indoor work now than we,ve EVER had.
We used to have 12 people on IPS sorting letters for one half of the office.
We now have 1, occasionally 2.
What has happened to the excess time clash?
Over the years:
A few VRs, a few sackings, IHR and ....... D2D into workload
Yours must be a very small office. We have two CSS machines, new backless fittings, about 12 on packets, 3 on large parcels and about 25 on IPS letters and flats coming off at about 8.40 and sometimes everyone even the double preppers have to go on sorting.
i,m a double prepper or ''dee pee-er'' as we are called, (not to be confused with the porn industry's meaning of dp). and quite often they come and ask us to leave the prep and go and help out on the packets/ips. this is the perfect excuse to cut off, so now they tend to leave us and call in people on their days off to come in and cover handbacks.
) dont have time to put them out.
... they give the managers easier access to the blue eyed boys 