So we all pop off for our tem brief. This week it is about competition.
We all know its coming so Royal Mail has come up with this wonderful idea where you the postman can earn money.
All you have to do is keep your eye open while you are doing your delivery and if you see any competition fill in this pre paid card with the relevant information and pop it in the post box. If, when it is followed up by sales, it proves fruitful you will a percentage of the savings.
Well, like a silly fool I spot competition and duly fill the card in and post it. Well I think you are doing your bit and it may be your job on the line. A few weeks go by and I don’t here a thing, no thanks but no, nothing. So the next team brief I mention this and say that by having no response does not encourage or motivate people. OK say the boss I’ll look into it and let you. (I think if memory serves me these became Lets Talk sessions. Where we were supposed to get responses.)
Well next team brief and has he got any information no they have not got back to him yet but he will try again.
Well shortly after this I went onto nights and had a new boss.
Team Brief and this card business gets another mention, well some of you pick up docket and do deliveries. So I say to the new boss about getting a response to what we send off.
I’ll look into to and let you have an answer next time. But I say that is what the other boss said and I still don’t have an answer. Well I’m not like him he says, I get answers.
Cut a long story short, I’m still waiting a reply and answer.
I expect this is like another thing RM did with job losses, I think it was call PPMS, don’t ask me what that stands for, if you know do let me know. But I’ll come back to this in another post.
Sickness and lucky draws.
Ok you lot your having too much time off sick. We are going to have a draw, don’t go sick for 6 months, I think it was, and you go into a draw for £500. I think the money and time is right.
So six months later they have the first draw, little old me has not had a day off sick so I’m it.
But guess who wins it. One of the managers. Managers, I thought they would be out it.
I think there was a bit of stitch up with this.
Sickness went back up and I made sure I had sick each six months so I did not go in the draw. I would rather have my extra time off when I wanted it than go into a fixed draw that I would not stand any chance of winning. As it happens they soon dropped the draw. I think RM went on to have draws for anew car.
How do Royal Mail hope to get the people that matter, the postmen, behind them if they don’t motivate and encourage them, and fairly.
Reminds me of another manager when on late turn at the MLO doing sorting. We had a power failure just at the wrong moment and guess what, we failed on the OP. Not surprising really. Anyway talking to this manager and he comes out with a good comment. He says, ‘when will they learn that when we get in the mire the only people who are going to get us out are the postmen, so why don’t they encourage them and play fair with them’. Still goes for today.
Next time I’ll go back to my early days at the MLO.
:Confused 
Sick Mon to Fri then back in on a Sat 
