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ROYAL MAIL AT A STANDSTILL

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clashcityrocker wrote:Glasgow Mail Centre was just on the tele and the manager interviewed assured everyone that everything was going swimmingly and everything would be delivered in time for xmas.
:left: :left: :left: Where's my wage slip then? :vcfo :vcfo :vcfo
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We are giving both Glasgow and Edinburgh a detailed breakdown of sorting on the letter/flat frame, with every individual postcode being sorted seperately.
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Mount Pleasant this evening had two artic's of Edinburgh collection diversion come in. That office is now banged out with work. :roll:
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Yes GMC is full to bursting lost count how much has been outhoused ,just adevertised over our tannoy tuesday night for more staff ...mail is being sorted and stored in any free space over 100k pkts sorted on monday backshift cameras were in as well health and safety is mostly ignored (surprise surprise) equipment is hard to find tues night sorted approx. 100k aswell but on the plus side(no im not being sexsist) the eye candy hasimproved this year!!.....
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Post by redspartapost »

we have been told not to pouch off anymore as it is taking up to 6 days for blue pouches to come back.instead just bring back in the morning ,which means peoples mail in your house overnight.also the night shift had no bags for d.b.f. and had to balance them on the frame then clear off before they fell to floor :funneh
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NIMC has that much mail that they are sending as much as they can to any DO that will take it,in the MC itself there are about 190 yorks of unopened airmail bags,you would think it was the 1st ever christmas,so much for falling mail volumes.in fact things have got so desperate that on saturday night there was such a lack of interest for overtime from substantive staff that they were running the imps using christmas casuals,was there health and safety taken into consideration,i dont think so.staff in NIMC have got so disillusioned over the last few years that most people are doing the minimun hours,i would put this down to the corrupt way the mail centre has been run,especially during the last year or so during the whole world class mail debacle,if the japanese prof was to turn up now and seen the state of the place he would have a coronary.in over 15 years i have never seen things so bad and never seen such a bunch of incompetent supervisors/managers,basically what we have is the blind leading the blind.
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whistling dixie wrote:NIMC has that much mail that they are sending as much as they can to any DO that will take it,in the MC itself there are about 190 yorks of unopened airmail bags,you would think it was the 1st ever christmas,so much for falling mail volumes.in fact things have got so desperate that on saturday night there was such a lack of interest for overtime from substantive staff that they were running the imps using christmas casuals,was there health and safety taken into consideration,i dont think so.staff in NIMC have got so disillusioned over the last few years that most people are doing the minimun hours,i would put this down to the corrupt way the mail centre has been run,especially during the last year or so during the whole world class mail debacle,if the japanese prof was to turn up now and seen the state of the place he would have a coronary.in over 15 years i have never seen things so bad and never seen such a bunch of incompetent supervisors/managers,basically what we have is the blind leading the blind.
Same as my MC,first time in 15yrs iv'e done no OT at Christmas,and feel all the better for it.Less people doing OT every year.People just want to come in,get their 8hrs out the way and back out,more to life than money,much more...
same as it ever was...
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Same as my MC,first time in 15yrs iv'e done no OT at Christmas,and feel all the better for it.Less people doing OT every year.People just want to come in,get their 8hrs out the way and back out,more to life than money,much more...
Yebbut Hubba, you missed this bit...

they were running the imps using christmas casuals
and you said that never happened. "Chain yanking" and all that?
Seems like others do it too then... :shhhhh
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Tman wrote:
Same as my MC,first time in 15yrs iv'e done no OT at Christmas,and feel all the better for it.Less people doing OT every year.People just want to come in,get their 8hrs out the way and back out,more to life than money,much more...
Yebbut Hubba, you missed this bit...

they were running the imps using christmas casuals
and you said that never happened. "Chain yanking" and all that?
Seems like others do it too then... :shhhhh
It DOESN'T happen where i work.Believe it or not,i dont travel round the country's MC's checking imp staff,so it may well happen elsewhere,so where do you get "others do it too" from?.......numpty! :crazy: :silenced
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They're running the CFC's here using the CASUALS.....

It was so bad this morning - that just after we'd dispatched all the Mech Mail, there were 3 temps coming down the machines grabbing all the empty trays to use...
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thehappyones wrote:Yes GMC is full to bursting ....
At the xmas arrangements meeting we were told that with the new iLSMs at GMC we would be getting more direct mail and less buddy trays.
Today - no direct trays but 4/5 buddy trays each.
Why? Why is it easier for you lot to send 4 buddy trays rather than 2 direct trays each?
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It DOESN'T happen where i work.Believe it or not,i dont travel round the country's MC's checking imp staff,so it may well happen elsewhere,so where do you get "others do it too" from?.......numpty! :crazy: :silenced
You may remember this thread....

http://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/communit ... 02#p329627" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

you had enough input to it.

Where do I get "others do it too"? Clearly my MC does (otherwise I wouldn't have said it) and the other two posters in this thread. Clear now?

And if you "don't travel around other MCs", then why doubt that it's a national problem just because yours doesn't do it? What sort of postie logic is that?
{Although maybe you should try casuals on IMPs 3 and 4, they couldn't do any worse than the numb-nuts on there currently :shhhhh }
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How is EDI & GLA M/C's today?