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Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Clappedoutpostie wrote:
20 Oct 2023, 21:47
Burghboy wrote:
20 Oct 2023, 07:18
Our office records more and more failures as ‘work plan failures’ so they don’t have to record them properly as delivery failures….

They are determined not to address the issue of the failed revision and are now saying we should be making further cuts to meet their pathway to change savings targets.
What is a “work plan failure” ?
I think it's when mail isn't sorted or prepped, that's why they sometimes tell you to only prep mail you will be able to deliver or they stand mail down and it doesn't get sorted
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My old office brought in "work plan failure" over 5 years ago. It meant that they had failed to resource properly so didn't have enough people to prep or deliver a duty. One morning I spent 20 minutes prepping a frame to be told to take everything out so that I could be moved and it would classed as a "work plan failure". Just another way to fiddle the figures.
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fb1969 wrote:
20 Oct 2023, 23:01
My old office brought in "work plan failure" over 5 years ago. It meant that they had failed to resource properly so didn't have enough people to prep or deliver a duty. One morning I spent 20 minutes prepping a frame to be told to take everything out so that I could be moved and it would classed as a "work plan failure". Just another way to fiddle the figures.
Happens regularly here, albeit not for the last 6 months. Everything taken out of a frame and put back in trays.

It’s such a weird concept. Could you imagine any other job like this? A bricklayer behind on his work, so the 2000 bricks he’s already put up are taken down, tomorrow he starts building again. Or the supermarket which is low on staff and only 6 out of 15 aisles have been restocked so those 6 aisles are emptied and put back into the warehouse.
The day is gonna come when we’re all gonna have to testify.

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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Most offices fail now the difference not reporting it work under tills not a failure.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

11


1.) Arbroath DO (DD11)
2.) Bristol North DO (BS6 and BS7)
3.) Bristol South DO (BS3, BS13 and BS41)
4.) Bristol South East DO (BS4 and BS14)
5.) Eyemouth DO (TD14)
6.) Herne Hill DO (SE24)
7.) Montrose DO (DD10)
8.) Thetford DO (IP24, IP25, IP26 and IP27)
9.) Wallingford DO (OX10 and OX49)
10.) Westhill DO (AB13, AB14 and AB32)
11.) West Norwood DO (SE27)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

An 11-sided polygon is called a hendecagon, or undecagon. The complete graph K_{11} has a total of 55 edges, which collectively represent the diagonals and sides of a hendecagon.
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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

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1.) Aboyne SPDO (AB34)
2.) Arbroath DO (DD11)
3.) Bristol North DO (BS6 and BS7)
4.) Bristol South DO (BS3, BS13 and BS41)
5.) Bristol South East DO (BS4 and BS14)
6.) Crieff DO (PH5, PH6 and PH7)
7.) Eyemouth DO (TD14)
8.) Herne Hill DO (SE24)
9.) Montrose DO (DD10)
10.) Paulton SUDO (BS39)
11.) Thetford DO (IP24, IP25, IP26 and IP27)
12.) Wallingford DO (OX10 and OX49)
13.) Westhill DO (AB13, AB14 and AB32)
14.) West Norwood DO (SE27)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

There are fourteen polygons that can fill a plane-vertex tiling, where five polygons tile the plane uniformly, and nine others only tile the plane alongside irregular polygons
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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The list is growing, RM management need to be getting their fingers out what with Christ.....er sorry I mean peak just around the corner
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gloucester north.png

Gloucester North have only been on this list twice, the last time on Sept 4th ;liar
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It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

Post by crazyshrew »

POSTMAN wrote:
25 Oct 2023, 21:10
gloucester north.png

"Growing list of offices Delivering.." ?

How can that list be growing, when the list of those catastrophically failing is increasing day on day?

Further evidence of basic logic and comprehension skills, and awareness of anything existing beyond the end of their own nose is worryingly lacking in these office administrators
I can't call them managers anymore, not until I actually start seeing actual management of people and situations again
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crazyshrew wrote:
26 Oct 2023, 05:48
POSTMAN wrote:
25 Oct 2023, 21:10
gloucester north.png

"Growing list of offices Delivering.." ?

How can that list be growing, when the list of those catastrophically failing is increasing day on day?

Further evidence of basic logic and comprehension skills, and awareness of anything existing beyond the end of their own nose is worryingly lacking in these office administrators
I can't call them managers anymore, not until I actually start seeing actual management of people and situations again
I know, it's crazy isn't it, since when did it become a massive groundbreaking achievement worthy of celebration to simply just do your job :shock:
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

1.) Aboyne SPDO (AB34)
2.) Arbroath DO (DD11)
3.) Bristol South DO (BS3, BS13 and BS41)
4.) Bristol South East DO (BS4 and BS14)
5.) Crieff DO (PH5, PH6 and PH7)
6.) Herne Hill DO (SE24)
7.) Montrose DO (DD10)
8.) Paulton SUDO (BS39)
9.) Thetford DO (IP24, IP25, IP26 and IP27)
10.) Wallingford DO (OX10 and OX49)
11.) West Norwood DO (SE27)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

A regular hendecagon cannot be constructed with a compass and straightedge alone, as 11 is not a product of distinct Fermat primes, and it is also the first polygon that is not able to be constructed with the aid of an angle trisector.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

Post by jessicarabbit »

We need a new updated definition of failure. I still remember being scared to bring back a piece of Mailsort on a Saturday. Now I have to choose which row I will leave in or which roads I feel deserve getting a delivery. I'm 50 and during the recent IA I told people I just want to do 10 more years. I now genuinely believe the business won't last 10 more months before it completely implodes.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

Post by Chelseablue »

Never known so many walks failed , packets thru the roof again. . God help us next few weeks !!
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Chelseablue wrote:
27 Oct 2023, 17:38
Never known so many walks failed , packets thru the roof again. . God help us next few weeks !!
I believe that packets and Tracked are expected to be at least double over Xmas Pressure
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Post by Nickvilla20 »

The neighbouring office to mine had 76 USO failures yesterday and has been consistently failing for months and yet still isn’t on this list.

I wonder how bad these offices really are.