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Doing a Collection after your Delivery?
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postman1
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Doing a Collection after your Delivery?
We all had to sit in a brief 10 min ''meeting'' with our DOM today who announced that we will shortly have to empty any Postbox's anywhere on your duty every Saturday after you have finished your P&L, we have been told we can only empty them between 10am and 1pm and have to be back in the depot before 2.30pm for the dispach, this is the first i and everyone else in our office have heard about this, is this all part of the ''National Agreement'', and does our Union have any say in this?
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Re: Doing a Collection after your Delivery?
Welcome to the NEW Rm !
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hubbahubba
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Re: Doing a Collection after your Delivery?
Has your local Mailcentre had a recent driver resign?Think most MC drivers are going over to logistics,only the main citycentre boxes are cleared by our MC drivers,all the rural boxes have always been cleared by the DO nearest to it.
same as it ever was...
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mandelsons_toenail
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Re: Doing a Collection after your Delivery?
Been happening at our office for a year

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justdeno
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Re: Doing a Collection after your Delivery?
We empty the boxes on a Saturday, but they go nowhere til Monday afternoon. The collection on Sat's is at 11am, our last box is emptied at about 2pm, RM failure. 
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Lounge Lizard
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Re: Doing a Collection after your Delivery?
Surely that is a failure.justdeno wrote:We empty the boxes on a Saturday, but they go nowhere til Monday afternoon. The collection on Sat's is at 11am, our last box is emptied at about 2pm, RM failure.
I understood the time given, whether Monday to Friday or Saturday, is when you could expect to post it by for it to get to the Mail Centre that same day.
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DGP1
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Re: Doing a Collection after your Delivery?
As long as the PDA says it's been collected on time then it's not a failureLounge Lizard wrote:Surely that is a failure.justdeno wrote:We empty the boxes on a Saturday, but they go nowhere til Monday afternoon. The collection on Sat's is at 11am, our last box is emptied at about 2pm, RM failure.
I understood the time given, whether Monday to Friday or Saturday, is when you could expect to post it by for it to get to the Mail Centre that same day.
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POSTMAN
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Re: Doing a Collection after your Delivery?
https://www.intouchfeedback.com/index.a ... 1&Cid=2752" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;justdeno wrote:We empty the boxes on a Saturday, but they go nowhere til Monday afternoon. The collection on Sat's is at 11am, our last box is emptied at about 2pm, RM failure.
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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.
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.
My BFF Clash
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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Lounge Lizard
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Re: Doing a Collection after your Delivery?
but it's two different issues.DGP1 wrote:As long as the PDA says it's been collected on time then it's not a failureLounge Lizard wrote:Surely that is a failure.justdeno wrote:We empty the boxes on a Saturday, but they go nowhere til Monday afternoon. The collection on Sat's is at 11am, our last box is emptied at about 2pm, RM failure.
I understood the time given, whether Monday to Friday or Saturday, is when you could expect to post it by for it to get to the Mail Centre that same day.
Yes, if the PDA says it's been collected on time then the Delivery Office has emptied the box on time and in that sense it's not a failure.
But if the public sees 'Saturday 11am' on the box they believe that first class posted by that time will have about a 95% chance of delivery on Monday when in fact it's a 0% chance, which is a serious failure.
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justdeno
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Re: Doing a Collection after your Delivery?
We have time and time again said it is a failure, but management fob it off. I really see no point in empting boxes, but as I have to on the PDA, then all RM think it's ok.Lounge Lizard wrote:but it's two different issues.DGP1 wrote:As long as the PDA says it's been collected on time then it's not a failureLounge Lizard wrote:Surely that is a failure.justdeno wrote:We empty the boxes on a Saturday, but they go nowhere til Monday afternoon. The collection on Sat's is at 11am, our last box is emptied at about 2pm, RM failure.
I understood the time given, whether Monday to Friday or Saturday, is when you could expect to post it by for it to get to the Mail Centre that same day.
Yes, if the PDA says it's been collected on time then the Delivery Office has emptied the box on time and in that sense it's not a failure.
But if the public sees 'Saturday 11am' on the box they believe that first class posted by that time will have about a 95% chance of delivery on Monday when in fact it's a 0% chance, which is a serious failure.
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Lounge Lizard
- EX ROYAL MAIL
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- Joined: 06 Aug 2007, 21:54
Re: Doing a Collection after your Delivery?
As you empty the boxes on a Saturday but they go nowhere til Monday afternoon then you are wasting your time emptying the box, the public are being misled and on the box it should really state "Saturday, No collection"justdeno wrote:We have time and time again said it is a failure, but management fob it off. I really see no point in empting boxes, but as I have to on the PDA, then all RM think it's ok.Lounge Lizard wrote:but it's two different issues.DGP1 wrote:As long as the PDA says it's been collected on time then it's not a failureLounge Lizard wrote:Surely that is a failure.justdeno wrote:We empty the boxes on a Saturday, but they go nowhere til Monday afternoon. The collection on Sat's is at 11am, our last box is emptied at about 2pm, RM failure.
I understood the time given, whether Monday to Friday or Saturday, is when you could expect to post it by for it to get to the Mail Centre that same day.
Yes, if the PDA says it's been collected on time then the Delivery Office has emptied the box on time and in that sense it's not a failure.
But if the public sees 'Saturday 11am' on the box they believe that first class posted by that time will have about a 95% chance of delivery on Monday when in fact it's a 0% chance, which is a serious failure.