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Xmas 2025
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POSTMAN
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Re: Xmas 2025
Weather was dodgy, just a bit more to go.
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I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Walter sobchak
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Mr Rush
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Re: Xmas 2025
Yep, that's what f****d us for the last eight weeks. I think we got parcel relief just three times in that span and by the final week we were just rolling over T48 every day. Neighbouring walk was even worse rolling over the previous day's T48 too. Pairings that managed to alternate clearing a frame last year were in the position we were last year of doing nothing but packets for a week and a half.Walter sobchak wrote: ↑28 Dec 2025, 08:55Plus getting a hand/having a spare man was nonexistent this year too.
We were distinctly reliant on people clearing letters on Sundays to prevent frames from turning into solid walls of paper. Nothing but letters between 9am and noon? Sounds like a job I signed up for once.
The machine stops.
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: Xmas 2025
Xmas cards were down massively some sequencing batches were probably about half the size they were last year. Normally there'd be at least a couple dozen yorks of collection mail waiting to through the CFC, this year often nothing left by the time that night shift starts.
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taurus88
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Re: Xmas 2025
Letters and Christmas cards in general were pretty dead on a day-to-day basis this Christmas; unfortunately, when you have two weeks’ worth in the fittings, it doesn’t really matter. Parcels seemed to have doubled on last year, especially oversized.
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TopperGas
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Re: Xmas 2025
Customers must have pooled all their Christmas cards money and just spent it on Christmas presents instead, as parcels were through the roof in our DO, already they've dropped by half today, back to pre Black Friday/Christmas levels.SpacePhoenix wrote: ↑28 Dec 2025, 20:12Xmas cards were down massively some sequencing batches were probably about half the size they were last year. Normally there'd be at least a couple dozen yorks of collection mail waiting to through the CFC, this year often nothing left by the time that night shift starts.