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Obviously you know, but, you know...
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Not another rogue manager that’s just not on
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POSTMAN wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 17:25
Obviously you know, but, you know...

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Is this being sent to the select committee to prove another lie?
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I don’t see the problem in calling staff out who are taking one too many breaks.
I know of a van share couple and one is always moaning because the other colleague is forever popping into peoples houses for a tea.
I have heard of some posties going home for a couple of hours. I have actually seen post vans going round the block in circles just trying to kill time.

Imagine if you paid someone to paint your fence and they charged you for 10 hours but on cctv you can see them dragging their heels or going shopping or sitting around doing nothing. You would call them out on it. I would anyway.

The days of being a postie and doing half a shift are coming to an end. If you think you can find a job where you can meander about doing the bare minimum then you should apply for it. Big brother is coming to an office near you.
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I have never seen these deliveries, with oodles of time the postman idling away, patting the cats, bringing the wheelie bins in for the housebound, bladder empty, hydrated, warm and dry. Deliveries are brutal unrelenting and utterly exhausting. If you get 10 minutes to get a rest my God you earn it 1000 times over.
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I wonder if the people on those duties are the type to come in an.hour before their start time? If not are there really deliveries that can allow an hour sat on your bum?
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Constance wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 18:37
I have never seen these deliveries, with oodles of time the postman idling away, patting the cats, bringing the wheelie bins in for the housebound, bladder empty, hydrated, warm and dry. Deliveries are brutal unrelenting and utterly exhausting. If you get 10 minutes to get a rest my God you earn it 1000 times over.
Yes, this. Wish I could just get five precious minutes to stop and do nothing.
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Constance wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 18:37
I have never seen these deliveries, with oodles of time the postman idling away, patting the cats, bringing the wheelie bins in for the housebound, bladder empty, hydrated, warm and dry. Deliveries are brutal unrelenting and utterly exhausting. If you get 10 minutes to get a rest my God you earn it 1000 times over.
Yeah I think walks are getting worse for sure. But like that original post shows, some posties are still finding over an hour to stop.
Trick is to wrap your pda in tin foil.
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Constance wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 18:37
I have never seen these deliveries, with oodles of time the postman idling away, patting the cats, bringing the wheelie bins in for the housebound, bladder empty, hydrated, warm and dry. Deliveries are brutal unrelenting and utterly exhausting. If you get 10 minutes to get a rest my God you earn it 1000 times over.
100 % this.

For the first time in ages today I finished loading my van at 8.30, ready to go out 20 minutes later. I’m thinking it will be a nice steady day today. Lo and behold the Lino appears and tries to give us lapsing. They want to squeeze every last minute out of you, without a thought that the duty is big and has hills-they’re not interested in that. Fcuk wits.
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Constance wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 18:37
I have never seen these deliveries, with oodles of time the postman idling away, patting the cats, bringing the wheelie bins in for the housebound, bladder empty, hydrated, warm and dry. Deliveries are brutal unrelenting and utterly exhausting. If you get 10 minutes to get a rest my God you earn it 1000 times over.
Exactly. The workload these days is punishing. No-one is sat round snoozing or chatting, doing their shopping. Or "half a shift" as filthybloke puts it (is he even a current postie!?). Yet RM are obsessed that we are.
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sindba wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 18:49
Constance wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 18:37
I have never seen these deliveries, with oodles of time the postman idling away, patting the cats, bringing the wheelie bins in for the housebound, bladder empty, hydrated, warm and dry. Deliveries are brutal unrelenting and utterly exhausting. If you get 10 minutes to get a rest my God you earn it 1000 times over.
Exactly. The workload these days is punishing. No-one is sat round snoozing or chatting, doing their shopping. Or "half a shift" as filthybloke puts it (is he even a current postie!?). Yet RM are obsessed that we are.
In my office they are. It’ll change I’m sure but even with lapsing some people are finishing a couple of hours early.
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FilthyBloke wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 19:02
sindba wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 18:49
Constance wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 18:37
I have never seen these deliveries, with oodles of time the postman idling away, patting the cats, bringing the wheelie bins in for the housebound, bladder empty, hydrated, warm and dry. Deliveries are brutal unrelenting and utterly exhausting. If you get 10 minutes to get a rest my God you earn it 1000 times over.
Exactly. The workload these days is punishing. No-one is sat round snoozing or chatting, doing their shopping. Or "half a shift" as filthybloke puts it (is he even a current postie!?). Yet RM are obsessed that we are.
In my office they are. It’ll change I’m sure but even with lapsing some people are finishing a couple of hours early.
Sorry but. I just don't believe you. There's no chance a wierd office like that wouldn't have caught RMs attention and had the arse revised out of it in the last 10 years.
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FilthyBloke wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 18:27
I have actually seen post vans going round the block in circles just trying to kill time.
RM can probably see it happening either on the PDA data or Trimble data
FilthyBloke wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 18:47
Yeah I think walks are getting worse for sure. But like that original post shows, some posties are still finding over an hour to stop.
Trick is to wrap your pda in tin foil.
Think RM would question you as to why the location data is always missing everyday. If they were to construe it as the walk being easy they might whack a s**tload of DPs onto the walk. Without the PDA data you'd have no proof that it was impossible
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SpacePhoenix wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 19:45
FilthyBloke wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 18:27
I have actually seen post vans going round the block in circles just trying to kill time.
RM can probably see it happening either on the PDA data or Trimble data
FilthyBloke wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 18:47
Yeah I think walks are getting worse for sure. But like that original post shows, some posties are still finding over an hour to stop.
Trick is to wrap your pda in tin foil.
Think RM would question you as to why the location data is always missing everyday. If they were to construe it as the walk being easy they might whack a s**tload of DPs onto the walk. Without the PDA data you'd have no proof that it was impossible
RM have tracked these van drivers before and hauled them in but nothing happened apart from the posties slowing down.
As for tin foil I had no idea that actually worked? !
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FilthyBloke wrote:
20 Jan 2023, 19:48
RM have tracked these van drivers before and hauled them in but nothing happened apart from the posties slowing down.
RM is a different company now, they'd use them van drivers as easy pickings to cut hours out, by conduct coding them