Parcels through the roof!!

[ted_e_bear]

Not a problem at all, I'm on the exact same contract as you apart from 30 hours not 40 and Monday to Saturday.
I'm more than happy with what I get as it's about £3.50ph more than other driving jobs out there at the moment and understand the point you are making.

How can it be £3.50ph more than other driving jobs. £12.54ph less £3.50 would take the hourly rate down to £9.04 an hour. That would be illegal.

Think they're on the London rate of £14.87 which of course doesn't apply to most of the country

[menditsa]

Not a problem at all, I'm on the exact same contract as you apart from 30 hours not 40 and Monday to Saturday.
I'm more than happy with what I get as it's about £3.50ph more than other driving jobs out there at the moment and understand the point you are making.

How can it be £3.50ph more than other driving jobs. £12.54ph less £3.50 would take the hourly rate down to £9.04 an hour. That would be illegal.

I'm not on £12.54ph I'm on £14.87

Just checked one job, that pays £11.53, Asda paying £12.04

[ted_e_bear]

Not a problem at all, I'm on the exact same contract as you apart from 30 hours not 40 and Monday to Saturday.
I'm more than happy with what I get as it's about £3.50ph more than other driving jobs out there at the moment and understand the point you are making.

How can it be £3.50ph more than other driving jobs. £12.54ph less £3.50 would take the hourly rate down to £9.04 an hour. That would be illegal.

I'm not on £12.54ph I'm on £14.87

Just checked one job, that pays £11.53, Asda paying £12.04

The majority of the country is on £12.54 for new contract, £14.87 is the London rate, presumably you're London area ?

[Mr Rush]

Parcels were through the roof today.

Yep, must have been 10,000 again. Once more, to provaricate: the prepping of letters may have come across as a futile exercise today.

[funkflex55]

This thread has been derailed by posts about pay. Please create a new thread about pay and post there. This thread is about parcels through the roof.

Yes parcels through the roof for a few weeks now. Add that to 5 hour+ walks and you get what we have. Many walks doing no mail or 2-3 loops maximum a day. Mail backing up in frames and trays. Lots of sickness too. It's a bit of a mess and probably won't catch up until after Christmas now.

[xPandabear1992x]

Parcels were through the roof today.

Yep, must have been 10,000 again. Once more, to provaricate: the prepping of letters may have come across as a futile exercise today.

Preach

Our FIRST mech and parcels didn't get to our office until 8:15 this morning. We're usually out and on the road by 9:15.

Our wagons are getting later by the week. God only knows why.

[kazardaimenu]

Still pretty busy on parcels and January is usually a quieter month…

[SMS1969]

Quieter yesterday then very busy today on a shorter day, left some letters in to get 80 tracked plus some non tracked on a single duty. Just when you think it’s calming down

[SpacePhoenix]

Quieter yesterday then very busy today on a shorter day, left some letters in to get 80 tracked plus some non tracked on a single duty. Just when you think it’s calming down

People spending money or vouchers they got for Xmas. Think once we get to the end of January we'll see a massive drop-off in packets, once people's credit card bills start coming in

[menditsa]

When I came in at 08.45 posties were still sorting yorks and yorks of packets.
I was not told not to deliver my mail and only deliver Tracks

One walk on my section had 150 tracked and 50 specials

[Smoothbackground]

Chaos for us today too. I did 163 tracked, plus a load of specials, cust collects, boxes, etc. The office still wasn’t clear of Tracked even when I got back at 3.30 pm. Maybe the volume is here to stay?

[Mr Rush]

When I came in at 08.45 posties were still sorting yorks and yorks of packets.
I was not told not to deliver my mail and only deliver Tracks

One walk on my section had 150 tracked and 50 specials

The last few January 3rds up here (for the 2nd is a holiday in Scotland) have exceeded any Peak day. The first time I saw pretty much every frame untouched was memorably unusual, but you can get used to anything. I like to regale new starts with stories about how the office used to clear every day until the Permacrisis began.

[Ozcabsmangan]

It's chaos factor plus 10

[kazardaimenu]

Through the roof again!

[SMS1969]

Just fkin ridiculous, supposed to be slowing down…