ELECTION MATERIALL

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 09 May 2017, 19:38

GRS wrote:Do you get yours walk sorted/sequenced. Ours come in as manual and are a right pain in the arse to sort.

Might as well be sent to DOs manual, CSS machines reject many of them on 2nd passes

NewPostieUK · Post by **NewPostieUK** » 10 May 2017, 04:21

Judgee wrote:
NewPostieUK wrote:
Judgee wrote:
NewPostieUK wrote:I'll be happy when it isn't compulsory overtime.
It's not you don't have to work over your time!
But poll cards aren't optional and have to be prepped in own time. That's compulsory overtime.
Who told you that?

fishtank wrote: According to Royal Mail you prep them in your own time

Post by **Judgee** » 10 May 2017, 16:20

If you are getting paid for them NewPostie as you are being paid extra on top of your wages! If you don't want paying for them, don't do them in your own time!

Post by **eastie** » 10 May 2017, 19:18

NewPostieUK wrote:
Judgee wrote:
NewPostieUK wrote:I'll be happy when it isn't compulsory overtime.
It's not you don't have to work over your time!
But poll cards aren't optional and have to be prepped in own time. That's compulsory overtime.

What you on about ?? prepping in own time , you are joking

TheTrolleyMan · Post by **TheTrolleyMan** » 10 May 2017, 19:31

Why do some offices get 3p per item , while others are getting 6p per item ?

NewPostieUK · Post by **NewPostieUK** » 10 May 2017, 20:16

eastie wrote:
NewPostieUK wrote:
Judgee wrote:
NewPostieUK wrote:I'll be happy when it isn't compulsory overtime.
It's not you don't have to work over your time!
But poll cards aren't optional and have to be prepped in own time. That's compulsory overtime.
What you on about ?? prepping in own time , you are joking

So you get £10 per hour plus 3p+ per item? Apparently not, according to this very thread.

Prepping in own time see quote above.

Bottom line is, nobody has a clue and the whole thing is a disgrace.

matthew68 · Post by **matthew68** » 10 May 2017, 21:26

paulj3001 wrote:No, the payment is for the delivery of the item

According to our Dom today he said to someone to prep all poll cards and he counted them over 1000 and he will,get paid! Yet the guy tomorrow who is only on 20 hour contract gets nothing extra for delivering them! I confronted him and he said only one payment allowed and he asked postie to stay over his time and prep them! This seems all wrong tom me as surely when you deliver them you Should get paid

SierraOscarBravo · Post by **SierraOscarBravo** » 10 May 2017, 22:03

matthew68 wrote:
paulj3001 wrote:No, the payment is for the delivery of the item
According to our Dom today he said to someone to prep all poll cards and he counted them over 1000 and he will,get paid! Yet the guy tomorrow who is only on 20 hour contract gets nothing extra for delivering them! I confronted him and he said only one payment allowed and he asked postie to stay over his time and prep them! This seems all wrong tom me as surely when you deliver them you Should get paid

In our office the poll cards now tend to come in precounted bundles of say 200 and then we just work off those figures.

Would it not be simpler and fairer for everyone if they just scrapped election payments and increased the delivery supplement instead?

nickbsmooth · Post by **nickbsmooth** » 11 May 2017, 15:16

If you're paid an hourly wage,is it legal to tell people they won't be paid,but they can maybe earn that hour rate back if they process enough items at 3p. What if someone doesn't deliver enough of these wretched things to make the same as their contracted hourly rate or worse minimum wage. RM could be paying people under minimum wage.

clashcityrocker · Post by **clashcityrocker** » 11 May 2017, 15:44

nickbsmooth wrote: RM could be paying people under minimum wage.

In order to prep and deliver my poll cards I needed to do approx. 1h 30 "overtime."
Even if I was paid the minimum of 3p per card I would still have made £45.

Paying people under the minimum wage? I don't think so.

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 11 May 2017, 16:54

This whole pile of s**t is just pure greed by royal mail for the profits and for the DOM'S bonus schemes nothing but pure theft If any of us did it we would be sacked on the spot yet some can get away with THEFT IN THIS BUSINESS THESE DAYS!

The Postman · Post by **The Postman** » 11 May 2017, 19:31

nickbsmooth wrote:If you're paid an hourly wage,is it legal to tell people they won't be paid,but they can maybe earn that hour rate back if they process enough items at 3p. What if someone doesn't deliver enough of these wretched things to make the same as their contracted hourly rate or worse minimum wage. RM could be paying people under minimum wage.

A newbie on a 25 hour contract would have to work 8 hours 45 minutes for free before he was paid under current minimum wage. So it wouldn't happen.