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walk speeds
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dog bitten
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walk speeds
can anyone confirm the new walk speeds being used by geo-route,management put up a list at wtl and it seems to me not much has change from the old pegasus speeds,they have up on the board that a walk on the flat is 4.0 mph,with lwt 3.8 mph, are they right ?
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Straight4ward
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Re: walk speeds
Taken from The Courier June 2010
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Tell 'em to poke it!Filming is all in a day's work
Pegasus film shows how colleagues are involved in planning delivery routes
"The film also aims to explode some myths, like the idea that people are expected to walk at a constant 4mph on delivery."
"Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway."
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POSTMAN
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Re: walk speeds
They haven't been agreed yet have they?
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It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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dog bitten
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Re: walk speeds
the dom and planner seem to think so ,and our rep dosnt know,POSTMAN wrote:They haven't been agreed yet have they?
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PostieWithTheMostie!
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Re: walk speeds
Panorama 2009 - Think the new Walk Speed is just to ' walk that bit faster than a Marine ' who's at an advantage by not carrying a bag over the shoulder...
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creedscat
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Re: walk speeds
Quite a few will be running round soon if it means they can finish before thier time.PostieWithTheMostie! wrote: Panorama 2009 - Think the new Walk Speed is just to ' walk that bit faster than a Marine ' who's at an advantage by not carrying a bag over the shoulder...
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dejavu
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Re: walk speeds
Noone to cover my day off last week so one of the managers from another office had to do part of it. I saw him out on the round, he must have been doin the RM walk
, was walkin that fast it was just short of a jog. Or probably was as quick as a jog, he looked a right prat
tryin to walk as fast as he can without running
Think he was part timing my round since i always complain about it. Pity that wouldnt be right since he left over a box of mail and didnt bother with the D2D, when id left a note of which roads had to be done for them as well. No hi-vis jacket.
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One rule for one, NO RULES FOR THEM
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tiggle
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Re: walk speeds
creedscat wrote:Quite a few will be running round soon if it means they can finish before thier time.PostieWithTheMostie! wrote: Panorama 2009 - Think the new Walk Speed is just to ' walk that bit faster than a Marine ' who's at an advantage by not carrying a bag over the shoulder...
one guy at our office enjoys doing his walk as fast as possible, he broke his ankle at christmas because as a result of rushing and yet still finished his delivery, what a hero. he did get a stage one for his trouble and now has the hardest delivery in the office. like my granny used to say some people are too numb to know they're numb.
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STEWPOT
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Re: walk speeds
How on earth can anybody get a stage 1 after having a fall and breaking their ankle while on delivery?
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jack straw
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Re: walk speeds
For rushing around and being a clever dickSTEWPOT wrote:How on earth can anybody get a stage 1 after having a fall and breaking their ankle while on delivery?
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fishtank
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Re: walk speeds
Straight4ward wrote:Taken from The Courier June 2010
page 4 -Tell 'em to poke it!Filming is all in a day's work
Pegasus film shows how colleagues are involved in planning delivery routes
"The film also aims to explode some myths, like the idea that people are expected to walk at a constant 4mph on delivery."
good times, bad times you know I've had my share
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tiggle
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Re: walk speeds
i got a stage one for falling on delivery, apparently it being an accident is no defence, in fact its standard practice in our office, are we the only one?jack straw wrote:For rushing around and being a clever dickSTEWPOT wrote:How on earth can anybody get a stage 1 after having a fall and breaking their ankle while on delivery?
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lazyjack
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Re: walk speeds
I'll be walking at a speed I feel comfortable with, not what some A-holes tell me to 
THOSE RESPONSIBLE SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE
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belle smith
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Re: walk speeds
it's not a constant 4mph you can't walk and be standing at someone door with a packet at the same time. but they do expect you to be walking at 4mph when walking. they got there figure of 2.4mph by averaging out all the time where you have to be stationary to do your job by their procedures.Straight4ward wrote:Taken from The Courier June 2010
page 4 -Tell 'em to poke it!Filming is all in a day's work
Pegasus film shows how colleagues are involved in planning delivery routes
"The film also aims to explode some myths, like the idea that people are expected to walk at a constant 4mph on delivery."
I think it's more likely thet the CWU will start calculating things this way than the walk speed coming down significantly.
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demon
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Re: walk speeds
i broke mine getting out of me van was off a long time and got no stage our manager is ok tho