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Re: Couple of questions for posties...

Post by arnold cheshire »

custard wrote:PHG is a term still used(usually those dealing with Special deliveries etc within the office)
Carries no extra pay though(used to)
its used and so are a lot of other words but it doesnt exist
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Re: Couple of questions for posties...

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bringon4dayweeks wrote:
chunk wrote:Ordinary postal grade ,
Postal higher grade,


normally the postman in charge of the parcel office will be a postal higher grade.
i always thought opg was official postal grade phg was scrapped 11 years ago
Apparently we are both wrong! as it may be Operational Postal Grade. :Very Happy

We still call the person in the parcel office the phg this may be just tradition as i don't know if it commands more money?
I always assumed it did.
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Re: Couple of questions for posties...

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chunk wrote:
bringon4dayweeks wrote:
chunk wrote:Ordinary postal grade ,
Postal higher grade,


normally the postman in charge of the parcel office will be a postal higher grade.
i always thought opg was official postal grade phg was scrapped 11 years ago
Apparently we are both wrong! as it may be Operational Postal Grade. :Very Happy

We still call the person in the parcel office the phg this may be just tradition as i don't know if it commands more money?
I always assumed it did.

PHG payment ended years ago