volume of mail on saturdays

[haveagojoe]

Been waiting for them all week but surprise surprise they turned up today...........................SKY MAGS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[edinburghsteve]

Today in our office they forwarded Mailsort for delivery Tuesday, then got hit with Postcode lottery garbage everydoor.
Saturdays are no fun anymore. I'm still prediction misery for RM when lots experienced staff leave, cause the job just doesnt sense with new practices getting implemented. Not many people can survive on PT wages.

Crozier and Leighton :cfo :lfo

[doveston]

funny how we got mon/tues mailsort on friday, today (sat) we had 2nd class pushed through as 1st.literaly 10 mialsort letters tops to post.busy as fudge.
theres something dodgy about how the mails comming through right now,beware of summer flexabiliy.we can cope with this level now ,we sure as can in the 'slack' weeks

[postyparker]

Like some people know I only started in Jan but the first 3-4 weeks on a Saturday were really light then they quite heavy yet today it was really light

Usually now Monday is lighter than a Saturday. Tuesday the quitest and Wed-Fri heavy

[rebel]

Staurday a bloody nightmare now. Most come in early for a quick finish but without that (and no meal relief) most walks would fail now. The final arrival (after we've started IPS) is now so full that you've gotta believe it's deliberate RM policy.

[traww]

Saturday a bloody nightmare now. Most come in early for a quick finish but without that (and no meal relief) most walks would fail now. The final arrival (after we've started IPS) is now so full that you've gotta believe it's deliberate RM policy.

I agree, for the last 3 weeks Saturday has been one of the busiest days. I think it is deliberate by RM too, could be trying to give us more work cos they know start time was protected as part of the agreement so they are trying to squeeze more out of us, or they are trying to hack us off so much that we lobby the union to get rid of Saturday deliveries - RM would love to do this.

Most of the letters i delivered today were bills and all down stream access too (17 coded bundles).

Mothers day cards really didn't have much of an impact tho'

[bandit650]

Been waiting for them all week but surprise surprise they turned up today...........................SKY MAGS!!!!!!!!!!!!

You to i reckon the sado management plan it that way ours had a smile on thier faces or prehapes it was wind.

[Albethere]

So with Easter Saturday approaching INBETWEEN the Good Friday and Easter Monday HOLIDAYS can anyone predict how busy it will be???

Seems to me it's a pity staff can't vote for a VOLUNTARY delivery shift on Good Friday instead of the Saturday so staff could have an unbroken run of days off over the weekend - Sat, Sun, Mon.

[solcat]

So with Easter Saturday approaching INBETWEEN the Good Friday and Easter Monday HOLIDAYS can anyone predict how busy it will be???

Seems to me it's a pity staff can't vote for a VOLUNTARY delivery shift on Good Friday instead of the Saturday so staff could have an unbroken run of days off over the weekend - Sat, Sun, Mon.

Steady on Albethere that's too much like common sense

[gazza2]

royal mail love sats because they can push out mountains and still get people back within reasonable time albeit red faced and knackered because
nobody likes a late saturday dichos y hechos espanol

[heapsy]

Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Anyone else noticed that we get hammered with DSA s**t more than any other days? Seems obvious to me that the companies using us are deliberately holding back till later in the week so they can send full vans to the MCs. Have even heard along the grapevine that some peeps are getting hospital appointments late. And this isn't RMs fault, or ours!

[rhino49]

Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Anyone else noticed that we get hammered with DSA s**t more than any other days? Seems obvious to me that the companies using us are deliberately holding back till later in the week so they can send full vans to the MCs. Have even heard along the grapevine that some peeps are getting hospital appointments late. And this isn't RMs fault, or ours!

Part of the DSA agreement should have been that the items handled by UK Mail,TNT and others were dated on the day they collect from the sender - then we could show that they are in fact providing a "fourth class" service in some cases

[DGP1]

Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Anyone else noticed that we get hammered with DSA s**t more than any other days? Seems obvious to me that the companies using us are deliberately holding back till later in the week so they can send full vans to the MCs. Have even heard along the grapevine that some peeps are getting hospital appointments late. And this isn't RMs fault, or ours!

and missing credit card payments because the bills are late anyway I think it's mostly down to poor MC management at not being able to deal with anything out of the ordinary (headless chickens anyone?)

[jemima]

Some companies want their letters, junk etc. to arrive at the customers' houses when the customers are most likely to have time to inspect their mail thoroughly before binning it - i.e. Saturdays. They'll time the dispatch accordingly. If I were running RM I'd be charging a premium on Saturday business mail deliveries - and paying posties a bit more for doing them.

[rhino49]

Some companies want their letters, junk etc. to arrive at the customers' houses when the customers are most likely to have time to inspect their mail thoroughly before binning it - i.e. Saturdays. They'll time the dispatch accordingly. If I were running RM I'd be charging a premium on Saturday business mail deliveries - and paying posties a bit more for doing them.

I like that idea