Sunday Working

[A2B]

Customers are not in for re deliveries now
Let alone allocated time slots

At least they can plan around it, either wait in or arrange for someone else to be there to take delivery. At the moment you wait between 7am till 4 30pm (or longer), time slots would improve the endless issuing of 739s

[llcoolh]

This is a great news for part-timers to increase their hours.

[Hitcher]

What happens to Mondays parcels
Will there any left to deliver

Monday or Tuesday will go eventually.

[interesting]

I wonder what size sorting offices they will use

[happymackem]

So will this mean the RETURN of Sunday collections????

[human1]

So will this mean the RETURN of Sunday collections????

No... because there would be not enough letters in letter boxes.

[interesting]

I wonder if Saturday collections will ever go

[hans solo]

going to be very interesting considering how many offices have been shafted not getting their 1 in 4 sat never mind sunday working
how will they scope sundays with 39 hr working week rem no ot during summer lapsing
oh and btw mr ward go fcuk yourself i take it cwu hq and yourself will be available on sundays and working like the rest of your workforce you welcome this

[hans solo]

This is a great news for part-timers to increase their hours.

that wont happen they will balance the hours from mon and tue

[interesting]

I maybe wrong
But I didn't think they could make us work Sundays

[janitor]

What happens to Mondays parcels
Will there any left to deliver

RM will only deliver parcels on a Sunday where the sender has paid for it, so present Monday Tuesday parcels will still be there.

[eastie]

Get the management to do it as they are salaried
We have 4 managers in on Saturday and 2 are gone as soon as the delivery staff are out of the door delivering
One with his golf clubs in hand and the other off to football.
How about instead of having 4 managers in on Saturday, getting 2 managers work on Saturday and 2 on Sunday
It wouldn't cost RM anymore money being salaried

[interesting]

Sod lets just have weekend as o/t

[bustedflush]

In most industries now sunday is a normal day of working. Working a Bank Holiday now only attracts a day in lieu in the retail sector as a rule. Five days out of seven so i can see no justification for extra hourly pay rate for sunday working. I am sure future contracts of employment will now have this clause. People need to get out of this Royal Mail Bubble and see what it is like to be employed in the real world

Whose side are you on?
The fact is we are competitive, make good profits and are unionised (unlike the other workers you allude to like shop staff, bar staff etc.) Therefore, this should be discussed fully by the CWU and premiums paid for this, if and when it happens. If not, you may find many staff 'rediscovering' their Christian beliefs and being obliged to attend Sunday services all of a sudden.....

[eastie]

Plus whats this "all staff were consulted" b*llshit that was said in the article