RMCtv : Message from Martin Seidenberg and Grant McPherson: Delivering a great Christmas, including one-off quality of service incentive scheme

[sweepster70]

Why can't causals deliver parcels at Xmas? Dont see any at my office.

Probably because "the last mile" ie Delivery, is how RM are "losing" money

All the CEO, Board, senior Managers want is more profit.

Delivery is the loser in that chain unfortunately.

The funniest thing is without deliveries this company is nothing. Just packets and letters sat there. Unless they can get 70 million people to come and get it all.

Without any part of the operation the company is nothing. Everyone is just as important in moving the mail along the way.

[1560loopsayear]

Aye I'd have to work until 7pm to clear my walk of parcels & mail every day.... and I sure as hell ain't doing that. Not dying on my feet for £500.

[postieblueshirt]

Funny how last year most of us were on strike but there was no backlog and everything was clear.Im sure they can do it this year again without people working till gone tea time.

[Judgee]

Can't wait to see what the catch is! Whole office to complete every day in December at a guess, with everyone absorbing the parcels duties that were recently created in order to silly size the walks!

[worktotime]

Clear sign RM know what a shitstorm this Xmas will be after the recent revisions. We haven’t been able to complete on the dead summer days so the next two months should be interesting.
I’ll be politely declining to take part in this shitty bullying bribe scheme. Clear your office and flog yourselves to death for £400 after tax? They can get f****d I don’t want a penny of it.
Dave Ward and the union once again showing how out of touch they really are. All we want is a fair workload and not to feel harassed and pressured by management to complete massive soul destroying deliveries, so what does the big bald moron agree for us? A scheme which promotes pressure from not only management but possibly work colleagues if it’s linked to the office as a whole.
Bloody disgraceful.

well said and so true

[postslippete]

For a company that was losing a million pounds a day and posted an operating loss of a billion pounds 6 months ago, they now have money to give away....


Awaiting details of the one-off quality of service incentive scheme. Will staff be expected to clear their frames everyday? What if you come back to a frame full of mail after your day off? Or are they expecting you to work all your days off? What about the offices that have not had their revisions? How will they be assessing 'quality of service'?

Whilst no one wants to miss out on any extra money it might create a few issues if some staff in a section get the extra and others don't. We all do the same job and if someone is doing extra work then they get paid for that extra work don't they??

[olilew]

Well if it depends on all duties clearing these numpties who want to flog themselves to death for £400 had better finish our duty off because we haven't cleared for months and certainly won't be in the next two. We'll be going home on time as always! I'm happy to forego the £400.

[Shirtbuttons]

Why can’t line managers go out on delivery? It makes sense especially over peak period. If you go into most work places ie supermarkets the managers are working the same as the staff on the floor. Ours just stand around leaning on a York sipping tea staring into space.

[Ren Hoëk]

Why can't causals deliver parcels at Xmas? Dont see any at my office.

Probably because "the last mile" ie Delivery, is how RM are "losing" money

All the CEO, Board, senior Managers want is more profit.

Delivery is the loser in that chain unfortunately.

The funniest thing is without deliveries this company is nothing. Just packets and letters sat there. Unless they can get 70 million people to come and get it all.

Without any part of the operation the company is nothing. Everyone is just as important in moving the mail along the way.

Absolutely but we are talking about the disdain senior management seem to have for deliveries when the final mile is pretty much the culmination of the process which without there is no product to sell.

[SpacePhoenix]

Why can't causals deliver parcels at Xmas? Dont see any at my office.

The DO that covers where I live had casuals out on deliveries. Think they went out in the van with the regular postie and I'm guessing they'd split the loops between them

[kookoo32]

Ram it up your arse im not knocking my pan .in for 400 quid after tax

Is the correct answer.

[Pharox]

Pretty much like everyone else, I will not be working any harder than I do now, I will however, continue to leave mail in the frame and or cut off and bring mail back, if I am unable to complete my duty within my contracted hours. So far this year, I think it has been just 1 whole week, that I have had a clear frame, so roll on Christmas.

[CharlesG]

If Royal Mail were to give all staff this incentive bonus that would equate to £40 million pounds. For a a company on its knees last month this is some turnaround
Its understood there has to be a 95%+ connected to tracked scanning + USO to achieve criteria , which is impossible in many units.

[dazzler123]

If Royal Mail were to give all staff this incentive bonus that would equate to £40 million pounds. For a a company on its knees last month this is some turnaround
Its understood there has to be a 95%+ connected to tracked scanning + USO to achieve criteria , which is impossible in many units.

hope thats true, as its dead in the water already then

[rubberbond]

Instead of making it an office wide thing, they should do it by duty and by individual person. The option should be there for each person to complete and earn extra for doing so. The extra could be called something groundbreaking like overtime.

By the way RM, don’t forget to order extra vans this Christmas.

It’s there already , if you cannot complete your delivery in time you either bring it back or stay out there in atrocious conditions like today and get paid. What’s the difference?