fishtank wrote:I have a cunning plan....
Since the majority of scope for lapsing comes from reduced indoor workload the business should restrict summer leave opportunities to full time members of staff(like me for instance) thus reducing the core indoor hours and improving the EP during the quieter summer months.
Who's with me?
I'd say get your tin hat ready fish
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..........
Puppetmaster wrote:Any ideas how long this will last ?
12 months + ??as its called summer lapsing (The clue being the term summer)
I think it is a great idea just like Bob Gibson ,wonderful idea, think every postie should absorb at least half a round each every day and Saturdays and Tuesdays 2 rounds each .
Lapsing etc. is a brilliant idea and excellent which everybody who does not have to do or has ever done it knows it is good.
All we have to do now is to get every Manager and CWU Reps and Mega size rounds and now summer absorption for only 1 week and let them tell us how good it is !!
There seems to be lots of people on here with a big misconception what summer lapsing is and what it is for, as part of the agreement that brought in summer lapsing there were several different parts,
Summer lapsing is used to lapse duties in the summer weeks to allow extra holiday slots so more posties can take their annual leave in the summe
Covering for each other, is the part that allows lapsing at any time of the year to cover for absence in the delivery office, ie sick etc
make sure you rep is insisting that the lapsing in the summer weeks is allowing extra posties off on leave if it is just being used to cover sick leave etc then it is not summer lapsing, summer lapsing was part of that agreement that is to our benefit not for the managers savings
totally agree if you have time within you contracted hours , but its like that.
lol. our office has been lapsing 2 duties since jan. problem is nobody is doing it because were that busy and have no time. so the managers are out on delivery everyday. and then at the end of the week they stand up in front of us all telling us were successfully absorbing 2 duties. will be fun in the next couple of weeks when they will begin trying to lapse another 2 duties
More time off in the summer.
What a novel ideal,especially as you have to give 3 decades to book a day off ...and even then it's 50/50 whether you get it.
Royal Mail managers.....about as popular as a t.urd in a swimming pool!
The DDA/Equality Act demands action,NOT words......adjustments NOT Occupational Health referrals.Case No:2505901/09
Royal Mail is an Equal Opportunities Employer..It discriminates against everybody.
fishtank wrote:I have a cunning plan....
Since the majority of scope for lapsing comes from reduced indoor workload the business should restrict summer leave opportunities to full time members of staff(like me for instance) thus reducing the core indoor hours and improving the EP during the quieter summer months.
Who's with me?
Fish, m8, you are going into retard mode, we and probably you had this 2 or more yrs ago, but the business was a different place then... shareholder these days m8, the dollar is king..
...and even then it's 50/50 whether you get it. 
