Universal Service Comms

[Londonsburning]

Once RM call the trial a success it'll be implemented across the county nationwide. The uso will have been changed and RM will return to profit due to job cuts. All the millions of profit will end up in the pockets of shareholders and fat bosses. In the meantime RM will continue to operate in worn out vans, offices and worn out staff. Once all the money is taken out of the company through property sell off and asset stripping, RM will return to losses again and will be telling the government the uso needs to change. Then it'll be sold again or maybe it'll just fold completely as all the assets will be gone.

The games up. Better off hitting a casino/bookies

[GRS]

Re: Drivers doing the tracked & 1C across 2 duties. Has or will an impact study be carried out to see the effect on a person’s body who will be getting in & out of a van from anything to 200-400 times a day? Not a decent van but a 15 year old Combo whose arse is on the floor. To be leveraging yourself out of one of those god knows how many times a week is going to cause some major problems with knees & hips. Funny how you never see DPD or Amazon drivers going round in something so small & awkward.

You think the CWU give a s**t? Absolutely the equipment isn't fit for purpose. Maybe you could tell the Area Safety Reps who no one ever sees despite them being on full time release. The ones who ignore the safety issues.

Of course nobody gives a s**t! Like everything in RM H&S is just something that is given lip service to. It’s merely a box ticking business.

[Sean06]

Once RM call the trial a success it'll be implemented across the county nationwide. The uso will have been changed and RM will return to profit due to job cuts. All the millions of profit will end up in the pockets of shareholders and fat bosses. In the meantime RM will continue to operate in worn out vans, offices and worn out staff. Once all the money is taken out of the company through property sell off and asset stripping, RM will return to losses again and will be telling the government the uso needs to change. Then it'll be sold again or maybe it'll just fold completely as all the assets will be gone.

The games up. Better off hitting a casino/bookies

If kretinsky gets go ahead he will own the business so why talk about shareholders..or am i missing something.

[Mr Rush]

Yes Martin tell us all about the point of how you reduce fatigue and still not got an answer. Longer delivery spans , older workforce = forcing us out ? I might be wrong,,

Their solution to fatigue is to replace the workforce wherever it occurs. Used, abused, then disposed.

So let’s get this right. The reason we are changing the USO is actually nothing to do with letter/parcel volumes or the needs of the British public etc etc but because a host of other countries have slashed their service. WTF!!!!!

As with all international business, the people who own and operate IDS/RMG have more in common with the owners and operators of our foreign equivalents than their own notional compatriots. Thus, whatever their cosmopolite peers are doing must be done here.

[funkflex55]

Once RM call the trial a success it'll be implemented across the county nationwide. The uso will have been changed and RM will return to profit due to job cuts. All the millions of profit will end up in the pockets of shareholders and fat bosses. In the meantime RM will continue to operate in worn out vans, offices and worn out staff. Once all the money is taken out of the company through property sell off and asset stripping, RM will return to losses again and will be telling the government the uso needs to change. Then it'll be sold again or maybe it'll just fold completely as all the assets will be gone.

The games up. Better off hitting a casino/bookies

If kretinsky gets go ahead he will own the business so why talk about shareholders..or am i missing something.

Maybe I am!
Anyway, the money will all be going out of the company with minimal reinvestment. A bit like every time RM has done well in recent years. The DO yards look like RM van scrap yards. In the morning I bet the diesel smoke plumes are visible on the ISS.

[abuch1980]

You put all your door to doors in on Monday and Tuesday. Deliver when you get live mail. If you carry a few delivery points over until the next week thats fine.It works now and should work in the future. Because of the increased call rate,delivery sizes SHOULD end up being reduced. IU saw that on a RM propaganda video

But what if you get 3-4 D2Ds on the 4 duties and one of your partner's is a part timer that doesn't come in til later? I work on my own and my paired duty is now a lapsing duty so I'm responsible for 1300 D2Ds. If I get 4 of them on each frame it would take me a total of around 3 hours to get them all in the frame so if 3 people are responsible for 4 duties then that is around 2500 delivery points hence 2500 leaflets and if you get 4 leaflets that could be 10,000 of them. How could they be all prepped up on a Monday and Tuesday? It's an impossible task when you have to also prep up the frames and get out of the door.
It's now going to be less people to more frames going forward and if you have a part timer that comes in at 9am then that leaves 2 people responsible for 4 duties of D2Ds, that is basically double what we have now.

Not an OPG problem. Start on time finish on time

[ANDREW CROCOMBE]

Reliably informed that one pair will fluctuate between 4 walks on a daily basis - with the other poor sod doing 1st class and parcels (DPR size) on two walks daily (1,2 then 3,4) rumours of 1in 5 job losses, with our d/o being told that the uso reform is going live in September. Despite trials ongoing and not exactly going too well, R.M are again out of control with no leadership. Could be the change that finally breaks the camels back (already done mine)

[Sean06]

Reliably informed that one pair will fluctuate between 4 walks on a daily basis - with the other poor sod doing 1st class and parcels (DPR size) on two walks daily (1,2 then 3,4) rumours of 1in 5 job losses, with our d/o being told that the uso reform is going live in September. Despite trials ongoing and not exactly going too well, R.M are again out of control with no leadership. Could be the change that finally breaks the camels back (already done mine)

So are you reliably informed.or is just rumours or both.an is the same info from same source.

[Clappedoutpostie]

Reliably informed that one pair will fluctuate between 4 walks on a daily basis - with the other poor sod doing 1st class and parcels (DPR size) on two walks daily (1,2 then 3,4) rumours of 1in 5 job losses, with our d/o being told that the uso reform is going live in September. Despite trials ongoing and not exactly going too well, R.M are again out of control with no leadership. Could be the change that finally breaks the camels back (already done mine)

Who’s doing the parcels not DPR size on the 2 walks not going out?

[Smoothbackground]

Reliably informed that one pair will fluctuate between 4 walks on a daily basis - with the other poor sod doing 1st class and parcels (DPR size) on two walks daily (1,2 then 3,4) rumours of 1in 5 job losses, with our d/o being told that the uso reform is going live in September. Despite trials ongoing and not exactly going too well, R.M are again out of control with no leadership. Could be the change that finally breaks the camels back (already done mine)

Who’s doing the parcels not DPR size on the 2 walks not going out?

The third postie in the “pairing”. Not all offices have DPR duties, and even those that do don’t have all walks having large taken off and given to DPR - just certain walks. For the two walks not going out, they will deliver all tracked, first class mail and specials, as well as emptying the postboxes and doing the customer-collects.

[kazardaimenu]

If it’s 1 in 5 job losses, more likely 1 in 6 (phased in by a freeze on recruitment) if it goes smoothly then that would provide plenty of margin for a substantial payrise for those who remain.

[SkiSunday]

If it’s 1 in 5 job losses, more likely 1 in 6 (phased in by a freeze on recruitment) if it goes smoothly then that would provide plenty of margin for a substantial payrise for those who remain.

OPGs aren't getting a substantial payrise ever again.

[ted_e_bear]

Reliably informed that one pair will fluctuate between 4 walks on a daily basis - with the other poor sod doing 1st class and parcels (DPR size) on two walks daily (1,2 then 3,4) rumours of 1in 5 job losses, with our d/o being told that the uso reform is going live in September. Despite trials ongoing and not exactly going too well, R.M are again out of control with no leadership. Could be the change that finally breaks the camels back (already done mine)

Who’s doing the parcels not DPR size on the 2 walks not going out?

The third postie in the “pairing”. Not all offices have DPR duties, and even those that do don’t have all walks having large taken off and given to DPR - just certain walks. For the two walks not going out, they will deliver all tracked, first class mail and specials, as well as emptying the postboxes and doing the customer-collects.

That's correct, the other point is it's not one pair doing a full delivery on alternating duties every day, they're supposed to take turns and rotate around who does the parcels etc days, it's been covered on another thread as one of the ways to try and combat fatigue, obviously this wouldn't quite work if there was a non driver in the trio as they'd have to walk every day with the exception of whatever gets dreamt up for them to do on Saturdays.

Our manager initially said the same thing regarding one of the trio being a "parcel driver", he's been corrected on that point, it's down to them not interpreting the information correctly.

[postslippete]

My biggest concern isn't the theory behind these reforms; it is how it will be implemented on the shop floor. There needs to be clear safeguards that prevent managers from using our PDAs to try and squeeze more out of posties by performance monitoring, unrealistic workloads and quiet bullying to do more with less staff.

[norris9]

My biggest concern isn't the theory behind these reforms; it is how it will be implemented on the shop floor. There needs to be clear safeguards that prevent managers from using our PDAs to try and squeeze more out of posties by performance monitoring, unrealistic workloads and quiet bullying to do more with less staff.

I'd rather they used PDA data to monitor performance because at the moment they just guess your performance based on what you bring back. If you are someone that gets on with the job and works your time without dithering about then what can they say if there is PDA data they can access. This data should prove that hard working posties are exactly that - working hard.

The guessing that you have been too slow based on what you bought back is an absolute disgrace as they are always wrong. They should be forced to prove their accusations with PDA data or shut the F up.