light and easy tuesdays

[arnold cheshire]

can someone who works in a mail centre please explain why tuesdays are so light ?

[rhino49]

can someone who works in a mail centre please explain why tuesdays are so light ?

As someone who has worked in other industries may I suggest that it is because most companies take two days to get their ass into gear after the weekend and don't start posting UNTIL tuesday !!! I doubt that the work is actually there to be done in the Mail centres until tuesday night. Can anyone else cast any light on this ?

[pyphon]

i think it's because the team that deal with mailsort only work tues-sat :)

[DGP1]

Not light in my office, enough to keep me out until my time and that's only recently during the 'post Christmas' drop in mail.

[fishtank]

Gave them back four streets.
They were just little streets though...about 40 calls each.
Does that count as "light and easy"?

[jack straw]

can someone who works in a mail centre please explain why tuesdays are so light ?

You're gonna get your hours cut talking like that on here mate. Some people can't be helped can they? You do realise management read this don't you? :dcfo

[chunk]

My 2p worth.
A large proportion of the weight experienced towards the end of the week is mailsort.
its a fact that some advertisers like to have there magazines etc delivered Friday .
this gives punters the weekend to browse .
big mailers like sky call the tune.

Monday and Tuesday can be letter numerous but are almost flat free.

[hubbahubba]

All mailsort2/3 and all 2c is done by the earlyshift,who work TUE-SAT.Only a skeleton staff in on monday to dispatch saturdays 2c collection,mainly on SA,with minimal OT....

[beinspired]

can someone who works in a mail centre please explain why tuesdays are so light ?

You're gonna get your hours cut talking like that on here mate. Some people can't be helped can they? You do realise management read this don't you? :dcfo

Don't be so naive - just as we monitor mail on an individual level, so do Managaement on an office level and so on up the chain of command. EVERYONE KNOWS IT'S LIGHT ON TUESDAYS.

[arnold cheshire]

can someone who works in a mail centre please explain why tuesdays are so light ?

You're gonna get your hours cut talking like that on here mate. Some people can't be helped can they? You do realise management read this don't you? :dcfo

Don't be so naive - just as we monitor mail on an individual level, so do Managaement on an office level and so on up the chain of command. EVERYONE KNOWS IT'S LIGHT ON TUESDAYS.

i was just going to say that management know the volume of mail every day

[Swinder]

I suggested to my line manager that we could have a rota system for Tuesdays where X amount of staff would take it off under flexibility and work the hours back on the other days. A few staff liked the suggestion, others were happy to carry on as they already are.
In the end they decided to scrap flexibility, at least for those of us who don't want to get up managers back sides.

[Throbnob]

can someone who works in a mail centre please explain why tuesdays are so light ?

Tuesday is actually our busiest (on nights) for Tracked. Often more than twice as much as on Mon/Fri.

[SpacePhoenix]

can someone who works in a mail centre please explain why tuesdays are so light ?

Tuesday is actually our busiest (on nights) for Tracked. Often more than twice as much as on Mon/Fri.

Same here for the Tracked (probably the same at every MC)

[TrueBlueTerrier]

can someone who works in a mail centre please explain why tuesdays are so light ?

Tuesday is actually our busiest (on nights) for Tracked. Often more than twice as much as on Mon/Fri.

Same here for the Tracked (probably the same at every MC)

and DO for specials and tracked.

[arnold cheshire]

can someone who works in a mail centre please explain why tuesdays are so light ?

Tuesday is actually our busiest (on nights) for Tracked. Often more than twice as much as on Mon/Fri.

Same here for the Tracked (probably the same at every MC)

i can understand that cause wednesdays are one of the busiest days of the week tue night goes into wed morning