Just tell the government Royal Mail is going under if we don't go to a 5 day letter service.
Lose staff through natural wastage, or voluntary redundancy, no compulsory redundancies.
Posties work a 5 day week Mon-Fri.
Overtime on weekends and/or get in weekend staff.
No change to start times.
Reduce the amount of line managers as they do barely anything or make them do more work. Standing around too much during the morning, standing around too much at the end of the day when there's plenty of door2doors that people are behind on due to lack of time/staff. Why aren't they putting them into our frames instead of hanging around chatting.
letters wont be mon to fri,its more likely to be tue to sat
Based on what? Businesses are generally open Mon-Fri and closed Saturdays so why would it be Tue-Sat?
Monday is now the quietest day of the week with very little mail,firms drivers may have a skeleton shift for specials and important mail the rest of us Saturday is the best day to deliver mail,watch this space.
It’s Saturday letter they want to drop , they’ve stated it multiple times.
Just tell the government Royal Mail is going under if we don't go to a 5 day letter service.
Lose staff through natural wastage, or voluntary redundancy, no compulsory redundancies.
Posties work a 5 day week Mon-Fri.
Overtime on weekends and/or get in weekend staff.
No change to start times.
Reduce the amount of line managers as they do barely anything or make them do more work. Standing around too much during the morning, standing around too much at the end of the day when there's plenty of door2doors that people are behind on due to lack of time/staff. Why aren't they putting them into our frames instead of hanging around chatting.
letters wont be mon to fri,its more likely to be tue to sat
Based on what? Businesses are generally open Mon-Fri and closed Saturdays so why would it be Tue-Sat?
Monday is now the quietest day of the week with very little mail,firms drivers may have a skeleton shift for specials and important mail the rest of us Saturday is the best day to deliver mail,watch this space.
It’s Saturday letter they want to drop , they’ve stated it multiple times.
How have you got the Monday ?
Its not definitely saturday its just a 5 day service not 6
Never The business has already pushed everyone over the edge, unachievable workloads, times changed, break times changed, new starts on worse contracts than ours, coms are saying every one is not pulling there weight, more understaffed than during the covid times.
No thanks from any one including customers complaining about that they haven't had mail in days and NHS appointments being missed because no one can get there finger out and actually agree on something. Both parties have doomed us all.
Just tell the government Royal Mail is going under if we don't go to a 5 day letter service.
Lose staff through natural wastage, or voluntary redundancy, no compulsory redundancies.
Posties work a 5 day week Mon-Fri.
Overtime on weekends and/or get in weekend staff.
No change to start times.
Reduce the amount of line managers as they do barely anything or make them do more work. Standing around too much during the morning, standing around too much at the end of the day when there's plenty of door2doors that people are behind on due to lack of time/staff. Why aren't they putting them into our frames instead of hanging around chatting.
letters wont be mon to fri,its more likely to be tue to sat
Based on what? Businesses are generally open Mon-Fri and closed Saturdays so why would it be Tue-Sat?
Monday is now the quietest day of the week with very little mail,firms drivers may have a skeleton shift for specials and important mail the rest of us Saturday is the best day to deliver mail,watch this space.
It’s Saturday letter they want to drop , they’ve stated it multiple times.
How have you got the Monday ?
Its not definitely saturday its just a 5 day service not 6
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Yes it’s definitely Saturday.
Remind me what day they stopped letter deliveries during covid again ? Royal Mail have stated it’ll be a Saturday lots and lots of times so I’ve no idea why you’re saying it won’t be.
The government and the regulator are more likely to agree dropping the USO on a Saturday. Then Royal Mail can charge a premium rate for weekend delivery’s like they already do with Saturday guaranteed.
You would only need a 1/4 of the staff on a Saturday if you are only delivering tracked and specials. No deliveries, No box collections just premium products.
Actually Saturday guaranteed delivery by 13:00 is the premium contractual service people pay a premium,
In reality, Saturday Guaranteed is a marketing scam
If a Special Delivery posted on a Friday before final collection, there is no reason they will not deliver it Saturday Morning without the Saturday Guarantee premium
If the USO goes down to a five-day service, you are looking at 20,000 job cuts.
That is totally unacceptable.
Royal Mail have changed the compulsory redundancies to voluntary redundancy. And there are many posties who are more than willing to take VR whilst some have already left.
We are struggling to meet the USO now because revisions have made duties bigger and most offices are already short staffed. What's it going to be like once we have another mail day taken off? Will we still be losing over a million quid a day?
That would be totally unacceptable in my book.
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
Normal specials on a Saturday don’t even have to be delivered by 1pm and if they don’t get there it’s not classed as a failure.
Any SD posted on a Friday that's not delivered on the Saturday will be classed as having failed, whether it's a Saturday Guaranteed or not as the system doesn't record if a SD is a Saturday Guaranteed
If the USO goes down to a five-day service, you are looking at 20,000 job cuts.
That is totally unacceptable.
Royal Mail have changed the compulsory redundancies to voluntary redundancy. And there are many posties who are more than willing to take VR whilst some have already left.
We are struggling to meet the USO now because revisions have made duties bigger and most offices are already short staffed. What's it going to be like once we have another mail day taken off? Will we still be losing over a million quid a day?
That would be totally unacceptable in my book.
At least 20,000 would have loved to have gone on VR. So it's only unacceptable by the Union because of the loss of all those Union fees every week.
The business has already pushed everyone over the edge, unachievable workloads, times changed, break times changed, new starts on worse contracts than ours, coms are saying every one is not pulling there weight, more understaffed than during the covid times. 