How much Special Delivery items are arriving late and what's going on with it.

[SpacePhoenix]

Well if you'd said in your post that they were cutting off then I'd have known and wouldn't have need to post about them needing to cut off

? Your ignorance knows no bounds.

If you knew what you were talking about then you wouldn't have needed to have posted at all.

Deliveries aren't the only ones short on staff. MCs have lots of casuals where RM haven't taken on staff to replace any who've left and they still want hours taken out of shifts

[fb1969]

Deliveries aren't the only ones short on staff. MCs have lots of casuals where RM haven't taken on staff to replace any who've left and they still want hours taken out of shifts

Maybe you should have posted that before as it answers the OP's question far better than your usual digs at Delivery Office staff does

[SpacePhoenix]

Deliveries aren't the only ones short on staff. MCs have lots of casuals where RM haven't taken on staff to replace any who've left and they still want hours taken out of shifts

Maybe you should have posted that before as it answers the OP's question far better than your usual digs at Delivery Office staff does

Maybe you should have posted that earlier in the thread?

[fb1969]

WTF are you on about!

[fb1969]

I should have taken Mark Twain's advice

[Andy247]

Unsure how to make a new topic. So apologies! Just wondering if any body here has a direct contact number with the Uxbridge sorting office. Cheers

[simmo11]

According to a postie on our local Facebook site our local DO is understaffed to the tune of 17 people. So if someone is sick or on holiday then the work apparently doesn't get done.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

However, the ultimate intention of Share Holders and the board may not not align with such an ideal

I've been asking around regarding this a lot and I've only got cryptic answers so forgive me for being so direct. But, are you saying Royal Mail are sabotaging themselves where non business mail is involved possibly in an attempt to get out of service obligations and get the government to take over -at cost to the tax payer- delivery of personal mail?

From a lowly postie it certainly looks that way.

[simmo11]

I sent a Special Delivery on Saturday morning to the Passport Office, it's my old passport as part of a renewal application.

Still showing as undelivered today, Customer Services advised me to contact the Passport Office to see if it had arrived as "sometimes the delivery scans for the Passport Office don't update".

[Snaggletooth]

Perfectly normal for Passport Office mail.

[SpacePhoenix]

I sent a Special Delivery on Saturday morning to the Passport Office, it's my old passport as part of a renewal application.

Still showing as undelivered today, Customer Services advised me to contact the Passport Office to see if it had arrived as "sometimes the delivery scans for the Passport Office don't update".

Perfectly normal for Passport Office mail.

Places like the Passport Office will likely get a direct delivery from the local MC and will sign for anything that needs signing for in bulk. It foten takes a few days for the confirmation to appear on the system

[Navalron]

I left RM last year, the office I worked in is now carrying 19 vacancies out of a full staffing level of around 95 - so a 20% gap in the number of people there should be. There has been no recruitment in the office for over a year. That office also has around 25% of the remaining staff working their day off every week because the posties know that if they take their rest day, they will face a double workload the next day. While they get overtime for doing that, it also means extra wear and tear on their body with another 10 miles or so to walk. That in turn can lead to time off sick, which leads to more gaps in the staffing levels - my old office has 8 people on long term sick, so the 95 required is down to under 70 people.

Why would they get more staff when they're getting it covered by people working their day off and those doing OT.

Spacephoenix, having worked in mail centres, DOs and railway stations, they all work totally different. You keep thinking that street posties have it as easy as mail centre posties. Mail centre work is a walk in the park. Your inside from the rain and cold, can skive, and generally have an easier time than on the street. And yous get shift allowances. So before you comment on delivery staff, just THINK about walking 11/12 miles a day in the pissing rain/extreme heat up and down stairs, dogs, people not in when your holding their parcel for the last 20 minutes while walking with the rest of the crap, people asking stupid questions and wondering if your big yellow spot on the pda is getting bigger. Thats when you get out of the office without arguing on a daily/ hourly basis about lapsing, annual leave, how much your prick of a gaffer thinks you can take out and deliver ect ect. Mail centres are a walk in the park. And you know it.

[SpacePhoenix]

I left RM last year, the office I worked in is now carrying 19 vacancies out of a full staffing level of around 95 - so a 20% gap in the number of people there should be. There has been no recruitment in the office for over a year. That office also has around 25% of the remaining staff working their day off every week because the posties know that if they take their rest day, they will face a double workload the next day. While they get overtime for doing that, it also means extra wear and tear on their body with another 10 miles or so to walk. That in turn can lead to time off sick, which leads to more gaps in the staffing levels - my old office has 8 people on long term sick, so the 95 required is down to under 70 people.

Why would they get more staff when they're getting it covered by people working their day off and those doing OT.

Spacephoenix, having worked in mail centres, DOs and railway stations, they all work totally different. You keep thinking that street posties have it as easy as mail centre posties. Mail centre work is a walk in the park. Your inside from the rain and cold, can skive, and generally have an easier time than on the street. And yous get shift allowances. So before you comment on delivery staff, just THINK about walking 11/12 miles a day in the pissing rain/extreme heat up and down stairs, dogs, people not in when your holding their parcel for the last 20 minutes while walking with the rest of the crap, people asking stupid questions and wondering if your big yellow spot on the pda is getting bigger. Thats when you get out of the office without arguing on a daily/ hourly basis about lapsing, annual leave, how much your prick of a gaffer thinks you can take out and deliver ect ect. Mail centres are a walk in the park. And you know it.

Being able to skive in MCs? Dream on

Everyone's work rate is monitored, the screws have to account for every hour used. If they think you're talking too much you'll get moved. You can often get moved around different work areas a good few times during the shift

You think we have it easier with the work, well the large Tracked often has heavy items, you might only have to lift a couple during the day, we have to lift dozens each day. We can have the same issues trying to get annual leave.

The MC can often be too hot or too cold, we don't even have any control over the heating, it's controlled from a completely different office.

Small packet primary sort doesn't use crashes anymore (unless the traffic has ended up way above forecast), it gets done on conveyors, no going slow on them.

If it was easy in MCs then you'd have delivery staff queueing up to do docket in MCs

[TrueBlueTerrier]

I have also done both, and MC ARE easier than Delivery Offices, there is certainly less pressure as long as you work at a reasonable pace. Can't say the same in a Delivery Office.

As has been said before you make a lot of comments about Delivery Offices but I doubt you have ever actually worked in one, which is why your comments upset posters. I am not going to stop you from posting about delivery offices as you can post whatever you want within reason, but you must expect some blowback when you post such a sweeping statement as

Why would they get more staff when they're getting it covered by people working their day off and those doing OT.

When patently with the list of failed offices I post on here daily would indicate that that does not happen everywhere. Please just think about how your posts will be received by others.

[SpacePhoenix]

I have also done both, and MC ARE easier than Delivery Offices, there is certainly less pressure as long as you work at a reasonable pace. Can't say the same in a Delivery Office.

As has been said before you make a lot of comments about Delivery Offices but I doubt you have ever actually worked in one, which is why your comments upset posters. I am not going to stop you from posting about delivery offices as you can post whatever you want within reason, but you must expect some blowback when you post such a sweeping statement as

Why would they get more staff when they're getting it covered by people working their day off and those doing OT.

When patently with the list of failed offices I post on here daily would indicate that that does not happen everywhere. Please just think about how your posts will be received by others.

With the way it's going I don't think any job in any office, DO or MC will look remotely like they are now