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Can you complete your duty within your contracted Hours

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.

Do you have enough time to complete your duty?

Poll ended at 12 Sep 2010, 10:04

Full timer, Yes I can complete most days within my time
48
41%
Full time, No, I regularly am unable to complete my duty
32
27%
Part Timer, Yes I can complete most days within my time
14
12%
Part Timer, Are you having a laugh mate? The only way I complete is with o/t every day.
23
20%
 
Total votes: 117

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Can you complete your duty within your contracted Hours

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Following a topic about part timers not helping with sorting missorts, I wonder what YOUR HONEST answers are. Comments not required
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Mine is a yes,and 99.99% of the time my office is a yes.
The mail drop and the summer lull makes it that way.

What will happen after the summer in the autumn and so on,i'm hoping we'll get hammered all of us and a lot of the work come back. :pray
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POSTMAN wrote:Mine is a yes,and 99.99% of the time my office is a yes.
The mail drop and the summer lull makes it that way.

What will happen after the summer in the autumn and so on,i'm hoping we'll get hammered all of us and a lot of the work come back. :pray
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To the Thread :arrrghhh :arrrghhh :arrrghhh
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i think the vote should delineate between -If you did the job properly could you finish on time?
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gb93 wrote: To the Thread :arrrghhh :arrrghhh :arrrghhh
Why? It is a simple enough question. Can you complete your duty on time?
Maybe some people don't want to know, or just don't care.
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im part time and it depends if its ready when i get in ..the other day had to throw over an hours mail off .sort 2 bags of packets ..do a ton of redirections ..didnt get out till 11.35
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Due to EA even now , in the summer , not a feckin chance.....................none whatsoever...
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pinstripe wrote:
gb93 wrote: To the Thread :arrrghhh :arrrghhh :arrrghhh
Why? It is a simple enough question. Can you complete your duty on time?
Maybe some people don't want to know, or just don't care.
Why are you so concerned about if others can complete their duty on time.
If it's because of genuine concern for others struggling and you want to do something constructive to help them out then :Applause
If it's because of the green eyed monster of others finishing earlier than you :arrrghhh
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ronpetetrevchris wrote:i think the vote should delineate between -If you did the job properly could you finish on time?
I agree and also between indoor and outdoor work.
Part-timers are on the whole less senior and much more likely to be on a duty they don't know so the results of this poll are iffy.....
kingofmcr wrote:im part time and it depends if its ready when i get in ..the other day had to throw over an hours mail off .sort 2 bags of packets ..do a ton of redirections ..didnt get out till 11.35
It takes me 45-50mins to prep my entire duty first letter to last and packets although that's with sequenced mail,the main reason for this is not because i'm particularly fast but because it's my duty,i know it inside out and i could prep it in my sleep.
Stick a reserve on it who doesn't know it and he's an hour later getting out and 30-45mins longer delivering it.
Doesn't matter if he's full-time or part-time. :neutral:
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kingofmcr wrote:im part time and it depends if its ready when i get in ..the other day had to throw over an hours mail off .sort 2 bags of packets ..do a ton of redirections ..didnt get out till 11.35
:shock: :shock:
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It takes me 45-50mins to prep my entire duty first letter to last and packets


Holy crap Batman, 2 hours plus for my (and most others) duty and nothing has ever been said about our prepping abilities, there does seem to be massive differences in duties all over :sad:
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DGP1 wrote:
It takes me 45-50mins to prep my entire duty first letter to last and packets


Holy crap Batman, 2 hours plus for my (and most others) duty and nothing has ever been said about our prepping abilities, there does seem to be massive differences in duties all over :sad:
To be fair DGP my duty is 3hrs 10mins not the 4-5hrs that yours is.
Obviosly any increase in delivery span will bring with it an increase in prep. :neutral:
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fishtank wrote:
DGP1 wrote:
It takes me 45-50mins to prep my entire duty first letter to last and packets


Holy crap Batman, 2 hours plus for my (and most others) duty and nothing has ever been said about our prepping abilities, there does seem to be massive differences in duties all over :sad:
To be fair DGP my duty is 3hrs 10mins not the 4-5hrs that yours is.
Obviosly any increase in delivery span will bring with it an increase in prep. :neutral:
I think you'll find that mine is a massive one, much bigger than anyone elses :nervous I'm so going to the naughty room again :chuckle :chuckle
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gb93 wrote:
pinstripe wrote:
gb93 wrote: To the Thread :arrrghhh :arrrghhh :arrrghhh
Why? It is a simple enough question. Can you complete your duty on time?
Maybe some people don't want to know, or just don't care.
Why are you so concerned about if others can complete their duty on time.
If it's because of genuine concern for others struggling and you want to do something constructive to help them out then :Applause
If it's because of the green eyed monster of others finishing earlier than you :arrrghhh
No, it's neither. It's a general poll to see whether there is a difference in completing duties, full time compared to part time. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Maybe it's more to do with fast or slow people, young or old, or compitant or imcompitant.
The whole FT v PT is becoming boring to me anyway.
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