New delivery method in order of priority “sigh"

[Patmanposts]

The clowns have been let loose again.

Specials, T24, First class, T48, Second class.

Our delivery office had a brief last week (As per usual myself and the other later start new contracts did NOT get briefed) but this is now the order of prioritisation. Apparently my manager has said and acknowledged that this will not work in our DO but hey ho.

Not sure if this brief is specific to my Do or nation wide in order to improve OfCOM targets.

Like many Do’s around the country, we are permanently short staffed, prioritise ALL tracked items and the mail just builds up. It’s an unwritten rule that specials can wait (you wont get pulled in by management) until you are at the address meaning failures. Note: i don’t personally fail specials as it’s the only bit of pride i have in the job and i have to see the customers regularly. however, many do fail them.


Talk about scraping the barrel and coming up with even more ridiculous working delivery methods, (practically impossible to sort and achieve any efficiency), all this will do is create more INEFFICIENCY.

Just one glaring example….Come the second day, a duty that has left over T48 (that is now by default T24 as it has to go out) will now go to the top of the priority list at the expense of First class AGAIN! Bringing us to where we currently are.

Absolute numpties running this company.

Bureaucratic, Convoluted, and Byzantine should be this business motto.

IF EVERYTHING IS A PRIORITY THEN NOTHING IS A PRIORITY.

No matter how many different methods of delivery you try, you cannot change physics / time and space. More posties with smaller rounds is the only answer.

[ted_e_bear]

No matter how many different methods of delivery you try, you cannot change physics / time and space. More posties with smaller rounds is the only answer.

Yes bang on, wasn't that the original plan for odm and it probably would have worked but alas it was binned.

[Clappedoutpostie]

Heard this happened in an office in our region, it was all denied when a divisional rep followed it up the next day

[Thommo44]

Office’s already short of labour, jobs not going out, people doing just packets and parcels and still failing, new recruits jacking after one shift.

No one can turn this around before Christmas

[Thommo44]

No matter how many different methods of delivery you try, you cannot change physics / time and space. More posties with smaller rounds is the only answer.

Yes bang on, wasn't that the original plan for odm and it probably would have worked but alas it was binned.

It was something like that, just that it was bigger rounds and less postpersons

[SMS1969]

No matter how many different methods of delivery you try, you cannot change physics / time and space. More posties with smaller rounds is the only answer.

Yes bang on, wasn't that the original plan for odm and it probably would have worked but alas it was binned.

It was something like that, just that it was bigger rounds and less postpersons

Exactly, there wasn’t ever any method that included more posties on smaller rounds- that wouldn’t save any money, but it’s how it should be done.

[Patmanposts]

Heard this happened in an office in our region, it was all denied when a divisional rep followed it up the next day

Hmmm, sounds like a few senior managers are trying to unofficially implement this method change in certain Do’s in hopes of improving first class?

[Patmanposts]

Office’s already short of labour, jobs not going out, people doing just packets and parcels and still failing, new recruits jacking after one shift.

No one can turn this around before Christmas

I don’t see any light for my delivery office. In my short time with this company (15 months) we have never been close to being fully staffed and it’s a small rural office. i wrote on this forum only a month ago that 22 people have come and gone in my time here, since then, 2 more have gone and by the end of this month, myself and one more of my colleagues will have left.

Every day is double / treble mail and double packets. I cannot handle another xmas there and cannot see any improvement or stability in the next few years at least.

[Mr Rush]

No one can turn this around before Christmas

Luckily December is exempt from Ofcom's targets so by then it won't matter how bad things are. Based on the experience of last Christmas I can very well predict what an unparalleled state we'll be in, though as ever I'll refrain from quantifying that lest I upset certain folks upstairs. Nonetheless, let me tell you: it will be spectacular.

Enjoy the ride. If possible parlay it into material for a book.

[postieblueshirt]

Specials, T24, First class, T48, Second class.This isn't a new plan it's just COVID all over again.

[Hitcher]

It’s an unwritten rule that specials can wait (you wont get pulled in by management) until you are at the address meaning failures. Note: i don’t personally fail specials as it’s the only bit of pride i have in the job and i have to see the customers regularly. however, many do fail them.

Weren't we meant to be getting rid of 1pm Specials?

[kazardaimenu]

Some of the specials have moved to next day guaranteed.

[SpacePhoenix]

Some of the specials have moved to next day guaranteed.

RM should phase out 9am SDs as how often do they have a chance of being delivered before 9am?

[Jinder]

The constraints of delivering mail will always prevent is from being a serious parcels business competitor, up against gig economy businesses paying peanuts & hiring self employed workers.

[yellowbelly]

Some of the specials have moved to next day guaranteed.

But the RM software in My Doorstep registers them (as well as 'normal' 1pm SD's delivered after 1pm on a Sat) as 'late' if delivered after 1pm

Well it does in our area.....