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So come on admit it....

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
scoobydo79
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So come on admit it....

Post by scoobydo79 »

How many of You put door to doors inside each other when You prep them? :whistle
fishtank
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Post by fishtank »

Of course i do.
There's doing the job properly and there's taking it to extremes.
I do watch what goes where though,don't put anything inside official stuff like council or government...people go apeshit about that and if you have two rivals companies make sure none of their employees live on your walk.
good times, bad times you know I've had my share
thefemalepostie
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Re: So come on admit it....

Post by thefemalepostie »

My postie does and who can blame him! Most weeks we get 6! He puts them all in the dominos menu we get every frickin week!

I didn't as I didn't ever have dominos menus on my walk.
scoobydo79
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Post by scoobydo79 »

Our lino was looking smug cos he took great pleisure in catching some one doing it and then realised we were all doing it lol.Then gave us a demonstration on the correct way. :no no
doorstepped
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Post by doorstepped »

our DIM does when he preps the absorbed walks.

I have always nested them into the biggest one, and it really p****s me off when I can't lol
CLINTEASTWOOD
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Re: So come on admit it....

Post by CLINTEASTWOOD »

door to door inside each other WHAT! oh my god this is very shocking read cant understand way anybody does it. :no no
Cedar_Room
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Re: So come on admit it....

Post by Cedar_Room »

Guy I used to work with insisted on doing D2D the 'correct' way & it used to drive me mad,especially when we had four,five or even SIX lots.

Flicking through a load of leaflets was a nightmare,even more so on a light day...never knew where you were at...& don't even get me started on when he turned for packets. :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:
“Shorts,in this weather?!”

“If they’re bills I don’t want ‘em!”

“What’s she been ordering now?”
fb1969
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Re: So come on admit it....

Post by fb1969 »

I have done it but no one has told me otherwise. Like many things I have discovered since starting with RM, you find out 99% of things on here long before anyone ever tells you (if they ever tell you, let alone train you)!
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scoobydo79
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Re: So come on admit it....

Post by scoobydo79 »

What grates most is the people who dont do the bloody things get away with it and the ones who do them get bollocked for not doin em correctly....sigh only Royal Mail
dvbuk55
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Re: So come on admit it....

Post by dvbuk55 »

Well of course it happens but really it is just using common sense - oh and was there not some bullsh*t about having them bundled together in a plastic sheath to save prepping them...................yes just another tall tale from the union to scare people into agreeing to the BT 2010, which looks like it'll be dragging on for another couple of years yet.
Postie45
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Post by Postie45 »

I want to know what RMs problem is with putting the leaflets inside each other.... SURELY the argument cant be that customers will only see the "outside" leaflet and bin it without looking at the others ? RM have told us these leaflets are so intriguing that the customers read them through like their favourite parts of "Fifty Shades of Grey"
BernardBresslaw
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Post by BernardBresslaw »

I'm no expert, but surely physics dictates that as soon as you pop them through a door, the ones inside are likely to fall out anyway. Gravity and all.
clashcityrocker
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Re: So come on admit it....

Post by clashcityrocker »

Why is it so difficult to just collate them and not "nest" them?
Why does such a simple task become so difficult?
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chooch
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Re: So come on admit it....

Post by chooch »

CLINTEASTWOOD wrote:door to door inside each other WHAT! oh my god this is very shocking read cant understand way anybody does it. :no no
"Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much." :shhhhh
fishtank
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Re: So come on admit it....

Post by fishtank »

clashcityrocker wrote:Why is it so difficult to just collate them and not "nest" them?
Why does such a simple task become so difficult?
It's not the collating them that's difficult clash it's the delivering them,especially when you have 5 or 6,double slots and you don't leave them in the frame when you don't have any mail.
They just sit together better in your bundle if you nest them.
It isn't a big deal really,in most cases they will end up all over the floor once delivered anyway.
There are bigger fish to fry in the sea of "doing the job properly".
good times, bad times you know I've had my share