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Absorption over christmas
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frankieboy
- Posts: 303
- Joined: 12 May 2008, 18:34
Absorption over christmas
Are there any offices out there still being asked to absorb extra walks over this busy period ? 19000 extra staff over Christmas but not where they are needed. 
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Kick the Bucket
- Posts: 119
- Joined: 14 Sep 2015, 19:22
- Gender: Male
Re: Absorption over christmas
In our office the absorbed duties have been added to our own personal frames and are now classed as ordinary loops. As far as doms are concerned no lapsing.
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cyrus
- Posts: 215
- Joined: 09 Mar 2010, 20:38
- Gender: Male
Re: Absorption over christmas
Lapsing taken off for the past few weeks and through Christmas.If they give us it, we would just fail it.frankieboy wrote:Are there any offices out there still being asked to absorb extra walks over this busy period ? 19000 extra staff over Christmas but not where they are needed.
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deltaforce
- Posts: 778
- Joined: 01 Jan 2009, 15:29
- Gender: Male
Re: Absorption over christmas
No matter what they call it. If it can't be done in duty hours , then hand it back or do it on o/t. Personally ide hand it back.
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Kick the Bucket
- Posts: 119
- Joined: 14 Sep 2015, 19:22
- Gender: Male
Re: Absorption over christmas
That goes without saying. The majority of the office treats it as though it is lapsing. Doms have found themselves doing more walking since they added it to our framesdeltaforce wrote:No matter what they call it. If it can't be done in duty hours , then hand it back or do it on o/t. Personally ide hand it back.
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5plusbonusball
- Posts: 1136
- Joined: 12 Jan 2012, 20:50
- Gender: Male
- Location: up north of watford
Re: Absorption over christmas
added to our frames here, you just have to do it and claim, dont mind extra cash but the ballache is the extra specials and pillar box included, should scrap special delivery now and just call them tracked, after all, the tracked get treated the same. Or make them guaranteed next day not 1pm.
While i'm on the subject of specials, why are most of them now cheap foreign no signature packets??
While i'm on the subject of specials, why are most of them now cheap foreign no signature packets??
Why are lino's paid full-time ??
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rambo1
- EX ROYAL MAIL
- Posts: 3266
- Joined: 12 Jun 2013, 20:00
- Gender: Male
Re: Absorption over christmas
You just have to do it and claim it?.....err, no. You don't!5plusbonusball wrote:added to our frames here, you just have to do it and claim, dont mind extra cash but the ballache is the extra specials and pillar box included, should scrap special delivery now and just call them tracked, after all, the tracked get treated the same. Or make them guaranteed next day not 1pm.
While i'm on the subject of specials, why are most of them now cheap foreign no signature packets??
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AnotherLimey
- Posts: 751
- Joined: 08 Aug 2009, 18:45
- Gender: Male
Re: Absorption over christmas
Weak members/peoplerambo1 wrote:You just have to do it and claim it?.....err, no. You don't!5plusbonusball wrote:added to our frames here, you just have to do it and claim, dont mind extra cash but the ballache is the extra specials and pillar box included, should scrap special delivery now and just call them tracked, after all, the tracked get treated the same. Or make them guaranteed next day not 1pm.
While i'm on the subject of specials, why are most of them now cheap foreign no signature packets??
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centenaryman
- Posts: 512
- Joined: 12 Jan 2010, 20:31
- Gender: Male
Re: Absorption over christmas
no lapsing here either,,,for the last couple of weeks
we never lapse when the figures go above the agreed model week.
and for the last few weeks there way above the model week
we never lapse when the figures go above the agreed model week.
and for the last few weeks there way above the model week
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Kick the Bucket
- Posts: 119
- Joined: 14 Sep 2015, 19:22
- Gender: Male
Re: Absorption over christmas
What fairytale delivery office is this?!centenaryman wrote:no lapsing here either,,,for the last couple of weeks
we never lapse when the figures go above the agreed model week.
and for the last few weeks there way above the model week
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cyrus
- Posts: 215
- Joined: 09 Mar 2010, 20:38
- Gender: Male
Re: Absorption over christmas
Mine is the same..No lapsing when the figures go above the model week.Kick the Bucket wrote:What fairytale delivery office is this?!centenaryman wrote:no lapsing here either,,,for the last couple of weeks
we never lapse when the figures go above the agreed model week.
and for the last few weeks there way above the model week
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jimmynailsalive
- EX ROYAL MAIL
- Posts: 305
- Joined: 28 Dec 2013, 13:36
- Gender: Male
Re: Absorption over christmas
In our office the model week seems to be for letters and totally ignores the likes of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We haven't lapsed for a couple of weeks though so can't grumble!cyrus wrote:Mine is the same..No lapsing when the figures go above the model week.Kick the Bucket wrote:What fairytale delivery office is this?!centenaryman wrote:no lapsing here either,,,for the last couple of weeks
we never lapse when the figures go above the agreed model week.
and for the last few weeks there way above the model week
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centenaryman
- Posts: 512
- Joined: 12 Jan 2010, 20:31
- Gender: Male
Re: Absorption over christmas
Kick the Bucket wrote:What fairytale delivery office is this?!centenaryman wrote:no lapsing here either,,,for the last couple of weeks
we never lapse when the figures go above the agreed model week.
and for the last few weeks there way above the model week
we may have a strong union rep
and when we had the p&l revision a couple of years ago the figures were used and based on the duties we have soooooo when in our favour we don't lapse
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t3mcIUQWE2
- Posts: 137
- Joined: 24 Oct 2015, 17:04
- Gender: Male
Re: Absorption over christmas
Lapsing. That's what we have for a couple of weeks in the summer, nobody bothers to do, and gets done on overtime. Right?centenaryman wrote:Kick the Bucket wrote:What fairytale delivery office is this?!centenaryman wrote:no lapsing here either,,,for the last couple of weeks
we never lapse when the figures go above the agreed model week.
and for the last few weeks there way above the model week
we may have a strong union rep
and when we had the p&l revision a couple of years ago the figures were used and based on the duties we have soooooo when in our favour we don't lapse
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wannabeek
- Posts: 996
- Joined: 27 Apr 2011, 00:49
- Gender: Male
Re: Absorption over christmas
Haha, sounds familiar to our place. They try to make it happen only while the summer lasts. I don't think there was a single week when it all got cleared because so many just couldn't take it. I think it's one of those ideas that may work in some offices but is just plain absurd in others.t3mcIUQWE2 wrote: Lapsing. That's what we have for a couple of weeks in the summer, nobody bothers to do, and gets done on overtime. Right?
There was OT for anyone who wanted it most days throughout the summer period tho, so happy days.