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later finish

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black biro
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later finish

Post by black biro »

got told to-day that they are going to try to get us to finish between 3-4 o,clock :arrrghhh
DGP1
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Post by DGP1 »

It'll soon be 7-5 6 days a week :mad
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Later starts

Post by vigilante »

It will be, town-------staggered starts with sequencing in------------no full-time deliverers, just two hour bag carriers.
rurals, later starts to take on afternoon collections----------services cut to customers.

Thats the future.
Darren Bent
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Post by Darren Bent »

Madness due

Sport in weekend will be more difficult to attend

Piss off more customers

Summer heat

I thought Alan and Al are football fans and understand we like to watch Sport in the weekend. I will not work past 1.15pm on Saturday.

Also if more post person working on longer walks we will be too tired to do anything and off sick with injuries / exhaustion.
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later finish

Post by the undertaker »

best have hammocks slung under our frames
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DGP1
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Re: later finish

Post by DGP1 »

the undertaker wrote:best have hammocks slung under our frames
We'll have to sleep standing up at our frames although according to Night Tonic we'll not be delivering anything in a few years time. :crazy:
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alangate
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Re: later finish

Post by alangate »

disgruntledpostie1 wrote:
the undertaker wrote:best have hammocks slung under our frames
We'll have to sleep standing up at our frames although according to Night Tonic we'll not be delivering anything in a few years time. :crazy:
If postmen dont stop dashing about using cars etc we will all be working till 5 o clock do the job properly hit them where it hurts on your docket.
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seeker019
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Re: later finish

Post by seeker019 »

If postmen dont stop dashing about using cars etc we will all be working till 5 o clock do the job properly hit them where it hurts on your docket.
I thought Flexability would stop overtime completely so hitting them in the docket area would'nt work.

It's about time we took a stand, finishing later 3,4 or 5 pm is stupid, why bother going home................Or are we being brought into line with other companies like UPS, Business Mail, UK Mail etc.


Thanks to the YES voters
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Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

I am sorry but if they ever went 9-5 then the calibre of posties would go down faster than a lead lined balloon full of concrete dropped from a tall building. How many people stay being posties because the early finish attracted them, or it fitted into their life style. How many part timers would jack it in because of a second job. How many marriages have both partners working and one of them is a postie, they would jack it in.

The job would only be of value to mothers with kids of school age, students at college/university, "Job Seekers" who have been forced to apply for the job. Of course they are others like junkies and alcoholics who cant get another job. If this is the calibre of people AL and AC want then they'd better get more call handlers at their call centres because complaints will go through the roof. IBS will have to expand because there will be more dumping and theft of mail.

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Post by madelin4 »

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:I am sorry but if they ever went 9-5 then the calibre of posties would go down faster than a lead lined balloon full of concrete dropped from a tall building. How many people stay being posties because the early finish attracted them, or it fitted into their life style. How many part timers would jack it in because of a second job. How many marriages have both partners working and one of them is a postie, they would jack it in.

The job would only be of value to mothers with kids of school age, students at college/university, "Job Seekers" who have been forced to apply for the job. Of course they are others like junkies and alcoholics who cant get another job. If this is the calibre of people AL and AC want then they'd better get more call handlers at their call centres because complaints will go through the roof. IBS will have to expand because there will be more dumping and theft of mail.

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Post by madelin4 »

disgruntledpostie1 wrote:It'll soon be 7-5 6 days a week :mad
7-5pm and thats me gone ! :confused
Crazy Chick
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Re: later finish

Post by Crazy Chick »

black biro wrote:got told to-day that they are going to try to get us to finish between 3-4 o,clock :arrrghhh
Because of the revision by a stupid computer system some of our rounds dont finish till 3 on a regular basis. We have walking deliveries that take 4 - 4.30 hours to complete, and van deliveries that are 3.30 hours???? :Applause
alangate
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Post by alangate »

madelin4 wrote:
disgruntledpostie1 wrote:It'll soon be 7-5 6 days a week :mad
7-5pm and thats me gone ! :confused
Me too
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greynut
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Re: later finish

Post by greynut »

Of course it was the YES vote.

Crozier and Leighton could only dream about how it gave theml a mandate for massive change without consultation.

We joined the Post to start early and finish early. It was the attraction of the job. Voting yes allows managment to basically do what they want now. And dont tell me it wasn t the yes vote. You are seeing it posted on this website every day. Changes in offices all around the country, managers becoming more and more beligerent and the only answer is 'Do the job properly'. Well I do and the funny thing is the more I do the job properly the more management want out of me.
Saturn
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Re: later finish

Post by Saturn »

Crazy Chick wrote:
black biro wrote:got told to-day that they are going to try to get us to finish between 3-4 o,clock :arrrghhh
Because of the revision by a stupid computer system some of our rounds dont finish till 3 on a regular basis. We have walking deliveries that take 4 - 4.30 hours to complete, and van deliveries that are 3.30 hours???? :Applause
we must be in the same office :nana and the drivers have the most to say :cfo