mail volumes

unionjack0 · Post by **unionjack0** » 21 Apr 2008, 13:21

have any other offices experienced a dramatic drop in mail volumes over the last fortnight.
last saturday was probably the lightest delivery we,ve had since we,ve been on one delivery and even though the majority of us work our time its been a job to stretch the delivery out, even with taking meal breaks ,toilet breaks and any other break we can get away with
now i dont want to sound cynical but with the introduction of long and shorts and a large cut of hours in our office being discussed,is this a coincidence or are mail volumes really falling so dramatically[/img]

Stormproof · Post by **Stormproof** » 21 Apr 2008, 13:23

Packet volumes have also been down the past couple of weeks, I have put this down to it being School Holidays, no doubt we will get hammered now the schools have returned.

hooniebagoonie · Post by **hooniebagoonie** » 21 Apr 2008, 13:34

you want to come to our office then........cant cope with the packets and mail is horrendous...oh and to top it all we have the london mayoral election crap to come this week
love it when they say mail volumes are down due to our competitors...i dont see any other overworked donkeys trudging up and down the streets
as for longs and shorts ours is just 1 continuous long :cfo :lfo

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 21 Apr 2008, 13:34

Actually its been a busy last 2 or 3 weeks for us - always quiet Mondays and Tuesdays now but for last 3 weeks we have been hammered Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Private packets have been quiet but Amazon, Light bulbs and MS packets have been very busy with an average 30 light bulbs boxes per walk per week.

traww · Post by **traww** » 21 Apr 2008, 14:15

unionjack0 wrote:have any other offices experienced a dramatic drop in mail volumes over the last fortnight.
last saturday was probably the lightest delivery we,ve had since we,ve been on one delivery and even though the majority of us work our time its been a job to stretch the delivery out, even with taking meal breaks ,toilet breaks and any other break we can get away with
now i dont want to sound cynical but with the introduction of long and shorts and a large cut of hours in our office being discussed,is this a coincidence or are mail volumes really falling so dramatically[/img]

Is your office a trial office? Well our volumes have dropped too the last couple of weeks, but we are a trial office and I think there is something dodgy going on here. Mail (mailsort in particular) is being held back somewhere.

One for David Icke i think

not me · Post by **not me** » 21 Apr 2008, 14:31

we were rammed last week,really heavy all week bar a not too bad tuesday

unionjack0 · Post by **unionjack0** » 21 Apr 2008, 14:41

No not a trial office, but your right about the mail our ips time is from 6.15 till 8.00and we usually struggle to finish usually leaving a couple of yorks of mailsort,especially from wednesday onwards but for the last couple of weeks we havent sorted past 7.30 once. like i say with all these changes and hours to save it make you wonder if there aint something very strange going on

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 21 Apr 2008, 15:03

unionjack0 wrote:No not a trial office, but your right about the mail our ips time is from 6.15 till 8.00and we usually struggle to finish usually leaving a couple of yorks of mailsort,especially from Wednesday onwards but for the last couple of weeks we havent sorted past 7.30 once. like i say with all these changes and hours to save it make you wonder if there ain't something very strange going on

Our short days are Monday and Tuesday and these 2 days are usually quieter than the even shorter Saturdays - the 3 long days we are usually hammered now mainly with DSA stuff.

Darren Bent · Post by **Darren Bent** » 21 Apr 2008, 15:13

I noticed it is quiet on Monday/Tuesday/Saturday. Wednesday is average/heavy and Thursday/Friday is bad/heavy. Today was very heavy today but again it is different walk.

What we need now is proper sunshine so we can start wearing short and polo shirt and no crap jacket or trouser or raincoat.

pickaname · Post by **pickaname** » 21 Apr 2008, 15:43

We were told in WTL last week that mail volumes have increased by 3%...not like RM to be honest so were guessing its more like 10%

dounome · Post by **dounome** » 21 Apr 2008, 16:17

friday saturday and today(monday) was really heavy with flats for us. I more or less work to my time every day, even on our so called quiet days.

leiwolf · Post by **leiwolf** » 21 Apr 2008, 17:46

Been Hammered quite a lot in the past few weeks, so much so that a Manager was heard to comment on how he needs more full time staff, so whose knows. Saying that if mail has dropped boy i would hate to see it really shikking down on us

dongash · Post by **dongash** » 21 Apr 2008, 18:48

i've noticed that we get hammered with dsa on thurs/friday? we also get a lot more mech bundles on these two days? a lot of magazines that used to arrive sat for the firms on my walk, now also arrive on these two days? surely the management are not messing with the mail are they?

woofwoof · Post by **woofwoof** » 21 Apr 2008, 19:14

funny this seems most offices are down on mail as they dont weight the mail now they book the trays in and guess what the trays arnt getting booked in especially the downstream stuff

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 21 Apr 2008, 19:22

Weigh everything in then go back to the MC and tell them that their figures are wrong because all the MC do is GUESS the amount of letter in a tray.

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