delivery staff can't leave the office till 9.30

[mick5eye]

at the start of this week are line manger as said that the delivery staff can't leave the office untill 9.30 as we have to wait for the misorts to be done for whole of the office ?is this a new rules all over the uk ?

[johnnyp]

at the start of this week are line manger as said that the delivery staff can't leave the office untill 9.30 as we have to wait for the misorts to be done for whole of the office ?is this a new rules all over the uk ?

We sort of do this at our place but without a time.Each day is different depending on workload ,but a normal time is about 09.00-09.30.Even when the final frame is clear and the stirs are let go a few missorts will pop up from somewhere later on so they get the afternoon collection drivers to deliver any Intra or first class.I would like to see the managers enforce this as its the early birds who are telling others to hurry up so they can get out quicker,Well come and HELP me instead of moaning and watching as i aint going any faster or coming in any earlier.


Moved to Blue Shirts

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Don't know if its national but that's what they are doing in my DO, however as its in the middle of our MR it does not bother me.

[dvbuk55]

Our office is 10.05 for town and 10.20 for rural walks.

[solcat]

Approximately the same with us, tho the town lads are having M/R around this time Rurals a bit earlier.Only fly in the ointment is the TOSSERS who use their cars sadly this number is creeping up for now

[LUV THE SMELL OF LETTERS]

our starting times have changed to 8.30 anyway. so we arnt getting out till 11 ish sometimes. Right pain in the arse

[pinstripe]

Same in my DO. 9.35 is the time that we are usually allowed to leave(Mon to Fri). Unless you have 'childcare issues', then you can leave earlier. I'm P/T and if I was to wait till 9.35 I wouldn't have three and a half hours to complete my delivery in. (6.30-12.45 Mon to Fri, 5.40-10.40 Sat)
Here's a question for you lad's. How come every 6 weeks when it's my long weekend my times change to 6.30-12.30 (30 hours). I've no problem with it but prepping my walk take the same amount of time so I lose 15 of my delivery time every day for a week. How do RM manage to have my delivery 15 minutes worth of mail lighter every sixth week. They must be using pixies or some magic fairy dust or something. Or is the more likely explanation that my hours may change, but the mail remains the same and I'm expected to rush round to complete in time. Is this the same with other part timers? I know that the F/T hours change as well, so do any F/T'ers lose delivery time on the run up to the long weekend, or do they rip you off on the meal relief?

Guy's just read some more of the posts, you have my sympathy. Starting at 8.30! WTF, not getting out till 10, 10.30, 11.00, remember when we used to get out in the dark? Finished before people went to work. Thank God I don't work in those offices, I have a life outside of RM thank you very much.
As Tommo would say "I blame these two... :lfo :cfo "

[gaza1968]

one of the few times i wil agree with a DOM as it might stop people comming in early and not taking a meal break so they can get a flyer

[dididw]

Our office is 10.05 for town and 10.20 for rural walks.

rural walks ? Dont you not get a van or do you use your car ?

[dvbuk55]

Our office is 10.05 for town and 10.20 for rural walks.

rural walks ? Dont you not get a van or do you use your car ?

Well I suppose it's a bit of a misnomer - our area is spread out across town and village - the vans do the very outlying areas but walkers do the built up =-the places are about 15/20 minutes away by car then by and large they aren't too different to a town walk - though a few are more than the 3.5 hours plus the travelling - I suppose it is because they get bus money. Most use their car some are taken out by van.

[AndyK]

at the start of this week are line manger as said that the delivery staff can't leave the office untill 9.30 as we have to wait for the misorts to be done for whole of the office ?is this a new rules all over the uk ?

Your manager has a legal obligation to deliver all due mail that arrives at your office, so unless you have a missort clear up duty your manager should not let you go until due mail as connected to the correct deliveries

[vigilante]

There will always be missorts in the frames because of different peoples speeds of working.
you can't keep people in all friggin morning waiting for everybody to clear the residue because we would all cut off!!

[TrueBlueTerrier]

There will always be missorts in the frames because of different peoples speeds of working.
you can't keep people in all friggin morning waiting for everybody to clear the residue because we would all cut off!!

I think what he meant was that there are no more missorts to come in after checking with the local units and sectors. Thats the way we do it as soon as the Poll of the sectors and offices has been done the DOM passes the word and off we trot.

[greynut]

at the start of this week are line manger as said that the delivery staff can't leave the office untill 9.30 as we have to wait for the misorts to be done for whole of the office ?is this a new rules all over the uk ?

Your manager has a legal obligation to deliver all due mail that arrives at your office, so unless you have a missort clear up duty your manager should not let you go until due mail as connected to the correct deliveries

Legal obligation, my arse............

We have to wait until 9.00am for the missort run, but we dont actually send out missorts because we are so short staffed we can t get the missorts out in time. So we have to wait for the missorts, but our missorts sit in the office untill 11.30am, wheres the legal obligation now????????

And, by the way, our driver sits at the mail centre with the missorts at 8.00am and is told that he cannot leave untill 8.30am even though all missorts are on his van.
So, me old mate, its all bollocks. This is RM management making YOU work strictly to your time. And before you tell me that "WE SHOULD DO THE JOB PROPERLY", I totally agree. But whats the f***ing point in sitting around ready to go for a handfull of missorts, when customers are waiting for the mail. Its a tiny percentage. Ask any customer if they want 99.9 pct of their mail at 10.00am or all of it at 11.30am, I will bet you that they will all say the former.

Sorry, but this will just become more and more routine. A 9 to 5 job in 2 years.

[postyparker]

Usually 9.45 for us Monday - Friday. Usually on Monday's and Tuesday's we get out for 9.30 though.