About your Office.

johnnyp · Post by **johnnyp** » 23 May 2007, 16:43

Why no break?Everyone is entitled to a meal break why do you guys not take them?

Big Daz · Post by **Big Daz** » 23 May 2007, 19:09

We dont take breaks in my office it sort of evoved like that as the mail levels grew.

In the old days when i was a cadet everyone would be back about half nineish for break with first del all done van would come along and we would sort up 2nd del mail then prep and do 2nd del all easily done within duty time.

As mail levels GREW it got to the stage wereby that when you got back off del there was so little time left it was pointless in having a break then doing 15 mins work. Might as well do a bit of work then go home early. That was how it all started in my office.

Big Daz · Post by **Big Daz** » 23 May 2007, 19:27

aprox 70 people in my office 8 are AG

15 rural dels

3 firms dels

1 early RLE duty

1 late RLE duty

2 oversized pkts/pcls and pouch drop duties

got rid of dom support job when dom support left as part of office savings

10 floaters

29 town/urban deliveries

digitalangel · Post by **digitalangel** » 23 May 2007, 21:54

I work in a London SDO.

Most people are in early when gates open at 5am (supposed to be 5:40am start).

5:40-6am: IPS and mailsort sorting
6am onwards: walk preps
7:30am: canteen opens
8-8:30am: late missort van can arrive at anty time
8:30-9am: most people are out towards delivery

My current delivery means I'm usually bundled up by 8am and out on my delivery starting before 9am. I can finish anytime after 11:30am though one day i had no reg/recorded/packets and finished by 11am. :)

We have 23 walks and 6 drives.

L Tommo · Post by **L Tommo** » 23 May 2007, 22:10

I see your writing but its a bit blurry as i cant see past your picture!!

WOW can a bloke fall in love with a ACTIVAR???

OUT

IM OFF FOR A COLD SHOWER!!!

As im a bit overcome by digitals beauty!!!

ngt ngt angel!!!

Post by **POSTMAN** » 23 May 2007, 22:14

My Angel (sorry) what pt Lon? I'm SE.

L Tommo · Post by **L Tommo** » 23 May 2007, 22:17

Ive gone all funny and my eyes dont work to good now

SHE HAS THEM POWERS OVER ME!!! I WILL DO ANYTHING SHE ASKS!!! ANYTHING

OUT

IM IN LOVE!!! DONT TELL THE MRS!!!! SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

MY DEAR

Post by **POSTMAN** » 23 May 2007, 22:19

L Tommo wrote:Ive gone all funny and my eyes dont work to good now

SHE HAS THEM POWERS OVER ME!!! I WILL DO ANYTHING SHE ASKS!!! ANYTHING

OUT

IM IN LOVE!!! DONT TELL THE MRS!!!! SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! MY DEAR

I've already warned her about you,have a look at her 1st post!

L Tommo · Post by **L Tommo** » 23 May 2007, 23:19

DAM SAD I AM AS WELL..

I will be a good boy from now on!!! HONEST!!!

BUT A BIG OLD

AS WELL!!!

ERE I JUST MIGHT GO SLIME NOW!!! OHHHH JUST THINK OF IT,, ALL THAT POWER I COULD WIELD!!!

OHHH I COULD CRUSH A GRAPE!!!! ROCK ON!!!!

OUT!!!

STILL SUFFERING FROM ANGELITIS!!! SHE IS STUNNING I TELLS YA!!!!

ANGEL!!!!

tinydancer · Post by **tinydancer** » 24 May 2007, 13:55

4am start (by choice. after 4.15 there are no free parking spaces left and my walks are huge!)
Throw in til 5.10
Inward sorting til clear, usually 6.30
Back to frame to throw in again
missorts in at 8.00
Out on delivery depends on volumes, could be 8.15 on a good day or 9.30 on a bad one! I do Bicycle rounds, 5, i am a floater)
We work 6 days a week for 5 weeks, then one week off. I cover 5 posties on their rest weeks.
management is 50/50. One manager hates me and dogs me constantly! the others are just fine, if not great!
Collections from firms and pillar boxes start at 3.30 and usually you are back on the bay by 6pm, unless it is race day at the racecousre!! Then the traffic is a nightmare and it can add 45 minutes to your collection! Timelines are tight when collecting from the firms and we scan every point so everything is monitored closely. Most pillar boxes on the round are set at the same time, so it can be a personal race to try to get around to them as fast as possible!
Then drop into bed and start over again when the alrm goes off at 3.15. Whew!

tinydancer · Post by **tinydancer** » 24 May 2007, 14:01

we subtract the meal relief time (40 minutes) from our finish times. In other words, if our duty finish time is 13.10, then we book overtime after 12.40. No- one actually takes a break, we work straight thru. Our rural deliveries are often still out there at 13.00! our town jobs are heavy, so some are not done til full duty time anyway! Our DO pays a lot in overtime! Thay should never have gotten rid of the night sorters!

iow1 · Post by **iow1** » 24 May 2007, 14:08

cockney rebel wrote:
iow1 wrote:well chaps me thinks i have a solution to the office problems. no i have not got some yokel with a gun to shoot the useless feckers. better still i think i've found us a new candidate for the reps job. think of a female bernard manning with pmt. i am currently working on her to be the rep. jesus she's a militant through and through. she would argue with herself just for the fun of it!!!!! maybe things will be on the up here soon

goto ask iow, y don't you take on the reps job? you seem to have a voice y not use it?

m8 wife gave me a plastic spoon. i am trying to dig a tunnel from under me bench to the outside world. i don't think i could do another xmas in this place. anyway bird took up the post. shes got them on the run already!!!!! You just have to know your limits. Mines winding the line manager up

he used to be a postie up country somewhere. obviously couldn't hack it.

Big Daz · Post by **Big Daz** » 24 May 2007, 14:21

Get her on the site, sounds like she could inspire the whole site!

Big Daz · Post by **Big Daz** » 24 May 2007, 14:33

What is the budget for your offices?

We have a target weekly budget 2374 core work hours/2801 gross hours. This is 125 hours less on the gross hours compared to last year.

iow1 · Post by **iow1** » 24 May 2007, 14:43

Big Daz wrote:What is the budget for your offices?

We have a target weekly budget 2374 core work hours/2801 gross hours. This is 125 hours less on the gross hours compared to last year.

interesting if i had a clue wot u meant. made a quick call to the office oracle. they tell me that the rcs awd figures in our office are incorrect. dom does not get it corrected. we are way overstaffed hence poor figures every day. up to week 7 we have lost over Â£33each in our 50/50 scheme . idiot manager fills this in each week. makes the blokes off sick feel worse than ever. they are both recovering from heart op's. harrasment me thinks.
as for the overstaffed issue we have at least 15 new recruits all on 20 / 35 hour contracts. they are trying to get rid of us older ones on 40 hours. new workforce is in place with the benifet of our training and knowledge. ah well i digresse. sorry

ROYALMAILCHAT

About your Office.

Ok digitalangel...

Tommo behave.

POSTMAN... PSSSSSSSSST POSTMAN!!!!

Re: POSTMAN... PSSSSSSSSST POSTMAN!!!!

POSTMAN... I KNOW!!!