How you gonna feel with a tracker on your back?

BELIAL · Post by **BELIAL** » 06 Feb 2008, 23:12

Lets exercise our imaginations on this one .

We can track your exact position and speed no. 17786 ,time in, time out.

How do you think an employer like RM might use this information no. 17786 or others?

Night Tonic · Post by **Night Tonic** » 07 Feb 2008, 09:59

Well apart from the darker side of scanners, you must admit, the equipment we use is ancient. Difficult at times to track where certain items are at any given time with much of it paper-based and if TNT or whoever beat us on technology, which most of the time they do, we're hardly cutting edge.

apple · Post by **apple** » 07 Feb 2008, 11:27

The thing is this if you were outside RM then you would think this is a good idea, what comes up time and time again on lots of posts on different subjects is that no one trusts the RM management to use it in the correct way

the only way for them to take the workforce with them is to treat them with dignity and respect!
been told so much crap over the years that whatever they do now i just don't believe them
this is an issue and one that needs to be addressed, never will be by words alone, they need to show this by there actions and not as a one off exercise but from this day forward

A start would be to get rid of Crozier, we all know we need to modernize to move this company forward, but i meet so many people that are sick and frustrated with it all , why? because we CARE, it's so frustrating when we see what they are doing to the service

they have to decide if indeed it is a SERVICE or a BUSINESS

Night Tonic · Post by **Night Tonic** » 07 Feb 2008, 11:30

Spot on, but RM not being given much choice either. As things stand, we'd probably stand a better chance being privatised. government don't givea toss.

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 07 Feb 2008, 13:37

I think we all know that RM will buy the cheapest tat that they can and they'll break/go wrong in no time. I had a delivery recently from ParcelForce and I had to sign the electronic device but it wouldn't sign (and those scanners/pda devices are kept in vans not constantly exposed to the elements like the walkmen will be).

Night Tonic · Post by **Night Tonic** » 07 Feb 2008, 13:50

And don't even get me onto the bags! Surely if RM havesomekind of contract with the suppliers of these pouches, they should be rejecting them and claiming back the money. Some only last a couple of weeks.

legind · Post by **legind** » 07 Feb 2008, 23:32

our offfice has these pda's on trial at the moment and very few people like them, every time you use them you have tap in your pin number then scan the barcode (which doesn't scan all the time so have to tap in the barcode) then tap in whether its been delivered or not then tap in the recipients surname then get them to sign it. four times it has frozen up on me completely so had to return items to office, how this speeds up the process i'll never no. line manager says I should take a delivery card out as back up i've told him if i take a card out that is what i shall use as it is far quicker. also try doing all that with a big bundle of mail in one hand. you are also expected to scan delivery notification items ie amazon.
i asked the people who first demonstrated them to us how much they cost and was told 800 - 900 each and our duty clerk told me she was shown on the computer how they can track people. so how ever much bad feedback there is from the trials i'm sure we all end up carrying them.

Post by **dvbuk55** » 08 Feb 2008, 13:38

I have heard that they are thinking of installing individual trackers on each delivery officer - what worries me is the arrival of a case of vaseline and a shed load of rubber gloves with the tracker bundle.

apple · Post by **apple** » 08 Feb 2008, 16:09

oh no now that sounds really bad

i was hoping to just scan it and they sign, guess i shouldn't get me hopes up

Darren Bent · Post by **Darren Bent** » 08 Feb 2008, 16:16

How it will force postman to use it, I mean they might just leave it in the boot of car.

apple · Post by **apple** » 08 Feb 2008, 16:18

just think if you loose it, it has GPS on it so at least you will be able to find it again

talked to a trucker once as he had a tracker in his wagon, used to put tin foil round it used to knack the signal

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 08 Feb 2008, 19:01

dvbuk55 wrote:I have heard that they are thinking of installing individual trackers on each delivery officer - what worries me is the arrival of a case of vaseline and a shed load of rubber gloves with the tracker bundle.

What realry bother's me if they run out of vaseline and rubber gloves it could be quite painful.

Post by **dvbuk55** » 08 Feb 2008, 19:18

k979aaa wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:I have heard that they are thinking of installing individual trackers on each delivery officer - what worries me is the arrival of a case of vaseline and a shed load of rubber gloves with the tracker bundle.
What realry bother's me if they run out of vaseline and rubber gloves it could be quite painful.

Well that is only part of the problem - you are not allowed to use the loo during the working week - well not to sit down - that will have a small blessing, because all those who now waste time in the bog ..........................

BELIAL · Post by **BELIAL** » 08 Feb 2008, 19:50

Anyone think the introduction of flexi working,planned summer lapsing ,end of job and knock and the introduction of scan/trackers might be linked?

Allan.

Yes Adam.

Well Al since we ended job and finish all our overpaid and underworked people have stopped sprinting around, productivity has taken a nosedive and the legions of casuals we recruited have such a high turnover rate things are getting worse.

Not to worry Adam we will combine our new tracking system with pegasus to solve this problem.
We scan them out of the office and provide each walk with three scan in checkpoints and scan them back in.
With our new performance standards we can expand the stage warning system to include any postie who fails to maintain the required delivery rate, repeated failure to achieve the required level of performance would obviously indicate that the individual is not up to the task.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 09 Feb 2008, 12:03

dvbuk55 wrote:I have heard that they are thinking of installing individual trackers on each delivery officer - what worries me is the arrival of a case of vaseline and a shed load of rubber gloves with the tracker bundle.

Look they have started tracking posties in our DO already - causes havoc at checkout in tescos though, they tried to charge me Â£10 for a 50p newspaper.