Ready Reckoners on our frames

[Bouncing Souls]

Heard today that management in the anglia region are now introducing these proformas and that has caused numerous problems with absorbtion.

Senior Management in London have broken a promise which they only gave last week on absorbition when they swore they would not be taking postmen and women off their walks in order to create absorbtion. They have now informed us that anyone who`s walk is near to the office will be taken off their walk regardless of their seniority in order for that walk to become the duty or duties which others absorb.

Dingo thats what they have already done in our office, we've had the EA implemented, and now lapse 2 duties per week, had it place for a few weeks now

[Moriarty]

I believe it's a NI thing (one particular DSM seems to have his offices put them out), I've had them on my frames and TBH they where really unworkable (18 letters per minute and between 10 and 15 minutes to tie up a frame, no matter how big or complicated the frame is) but these seem to have been dropped in favour of a new system, a sheet posted on a notice board, detailing every duty and how long it should take to prep and tie up and you'll all love this one......................it now has the prep speed of 25 letters per minute, every minute until you're done (I can see lots of legal action in the future with serious RSI claims), so even the heaviest duty can now be prepped in an hour and 15 minutes to tie up

Well it must be just us here in N Ireland. As far as I'm aware the union do not recognise this so why the feck is it here....another tool to intimidate and bully with!!! Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the union only recognise the one minute prep test. The target for this being 25 letters in a minute. I was tested for the whole of my prep and tie up a few months ago, and the manager who tested me, unofficially did the one minute test on me, during my prep test. I say unofficially because the DOM and line manager flatly refuse to do these one minute tests!

I'll say this....there is no way you could continually prep at 25 letters a minute. However I have heard they are designing a new Robo-postman which will be phased in by 2010. This will eliminate the need to pay for any breaks (food, toilet, or smoke ones), whilst maintaining any speed the management wish, so as to achieve all targets set by the hierarchy. Hasta la vista postie!