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POSTMAN
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TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
brisomerset wrote:Please feel free to correct me but i find it a bit odd that as this site has been on for a long time, we suddenley have two foreign posts? In the space of a couple of days? Also there english typing is very good? I think this is a windup? What ever happened to CANTYPEANDSHOUTS?
His IP addresses checks out so unless he is really good at masking it through a proxy server based in Serbia he is legit. Same for the 2 french guys they all look ok.
We will double check the 'IP's' of anyone on here claiming to be from any side of the water.
Nice one teebs.
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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belgradepostman
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Post by belgradepostman »

I can put some light on Serbian post organization
First of all, we don't sort our mail. There is a 6 man crew whose job is to sort it and put in our boxes, I don't know how you name area/group of homes? Every postman has 800-900 homes per day.
Only in big post offices is this type of organization, in smaller places postman is involved in process from the start.
I work in post office in the center of Belgrade and is it one of the biggest.
08 00 arriving. Pick up letters. Start to sort by homes.
09 00 pick up recommended letters and wright them in our books, looks weird but we do it manually.
09 20 hit the streets. No car. Just foot. Most of us has arranged some kind of material delivery, it helps but most of kilos is in one single bag. No limit.
14 00 finish, but it it is so various, sometimes 16.00 or 17.00. Depends of material, as in all post offices. Nobody is paying for extra time, as you might guess.
No working Saturdays. No working Sundays. 300€/month.
Please tell me, because there is clear request (WEIGH YOUR BAGS!) IN TOP OF THIS PAGE. Explain it to me. What happens if you have 25 kg? Do you get some help? Do you leave those letters for tomorrow?
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We have a delivery guide where we have rules on how much we can carry.
The 1st bag does not have to be more than 16kg,then they go down in weight,the following few bags 11kg then it goes down to 8kg.
We can have up to say 8 bags on a round.
Most of us do not go over these weights,but some people do.But we never carry 25kg!!!
We have special boxes on our rounds where the bags are stored for us to pick up as we work,sometimes they are also left in shops or post offices for us.

We normally work 5 days out of 6 but the whole Royal Mail operation goes for 7 days,we do not deliver on a sunday.
We earn about 440 Euros/£340 a week roughly,plus there is times we can earn more doing overtime/extra work.

We have some letters that comes down in special bundles and they are sorted for our round,we just have to put them in the slots for the houses.
But most of the work we have to sort into our rounds 1st as they are mixed up,then put them in the slot for our houses.
We normally start at 6 am and on average we finish about 1-2 pm for 8hrs pay,if we go over the times we get payed extra if we want it.
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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Post by Darren Bent »

Some people work 6 days a week and get a week off every 6 weeks and still get paid for it.

It is alway interesting to hear how postman work outside UK.
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belgradepostman
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Correct me ig I am wrong...

Post by belgradepostman »

POSTMAN wrote:We have a delivery guide where we have rules on how much we can carry.
The 1st bag does not have to be more than 16kg,then they go down in weight,the following few bags 11kg then it goes down to 8kg.
We can have up to say 8 bags on a round.
Most of us do not go over these weights,but some people do.But we never carry 25kg!!!
We have special boxes on our rounds where the bags are stored for us to pick up as we work,sometimes they are also left in shops or post offices for us.

We normally work 5 days out of 6 but the whole Royal Mail operation goes for 7 days,we do not deliver on a sunday.
We earn about 440 Euros/£340 a week roughly,plus there is times we can earn more doing overtime/extra work.

We have some letters that comes down in special bundles and they are sorted for our round,we just have to put them in the slots for the houses.
But most of the work we have to sort into our rounds 1st as they are mixed up,then put them in the slot for our houses.
We normally start at 6 am and on average we finish about 1-2 pm for 8hrs pay,if we go over the times we get payed extra if we want it.
Some terrifying mathematics
16 kg (first beg) + (8X10 kg)=96 kg per day?
Dear God...
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madelin4
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Post by madelin4 »

QUOTE"""16 kg (first beg) + (8X10 kg)=96 kg per day?
Dear God...


Thats a lot on our body each day each week of each year!!!!!! makes me think is it worth the toll on our body! :hmmmm
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Post by k979aaa »

madelin4 wrote:QUOTE"""16 kg (first beg) + (8X10 kg)=96 kg per day?
Dear God...


Thats a lot on our body each day each week of each year!!!!!! makes me think is it worth the toll on our body! :hmmmm
As royalmail said in one of their propagander leaflet's "IT ALL ADD'S UP" OR DOES IT ANYMORE?. :cfo & :lfo
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Post by BELIAL »

TRy 126kg average and 186kg max (so far) Bring back Tito
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belgradepostman
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Post by belgradepostman »

Bring back Tito ,Milosevic, just bring back the time...
186 kg max?
What are you eating? Drinking?
I had some serious health problem with my 25 Kg on spine (193 cm, 105 kg). I would just die with 186... What would my little mates do?

EU go away...
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Post by BELIAL »

To be fair Vlad 186 kg is delivered with a HCT(wheelbarrow thing) but it does take a long time.
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belgradepostman
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Post by belgradepostman »

So you don't carry it on your back, this is some s**t on wheels?
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Post by BELIAL »

Absolutely,spot on ,very precise.Three hours time diff youll not wake up :cry salut tovaresch
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belgradepostman
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Post by belgradepostman »

Dear Belial,
IT is good to know, otherwise... My back get frightened...
I have been trying to get a whole picture of Royal Mail in couple of these days.
You deliver 80 000 000 item daily.
How many posties are there in UK, anyway?
Simply calculation...
Item per postie...
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Post by k979aaa »

belgradepostman wrote:Dear Belial,
IT is good to know, otherwise... My back get frightened...
I have been trying to get a whole picture of Royal Mail in couple of these days.
You deliver 80 000 000 item daily.
How many posties are there in UK, anyway?
Simply calculation...
Item per postie...
Not so simply any more for most of us who now leave / forced out of work are replaced by partime worker's ie not a 40 hour week but a 30 hour or 24 hour week or less !.
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belgradepostman
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Post by belgradepostman »

Any number?
Previous number?
Please, I need because I would like to calculate my future...
Everything...from EU..is coming...not so fast..but our leaders are using EVERY single parameter to convince us...
except... anything...You wanted...EU... don't ask...just except...
You understand...
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