2026 & beyond

[Rommagic]

Yes sa attacted maybe under uso reform different.

[ted_e_bear]

Yes sa attacted maybe under uso reform different.

Definitely will be different if the whole office is currently doing it as it won't require everyone in on Saturdays for a start, will probably die a natural death when the odm gets implemented

[wandererpaul]

Started in 1999 and then left in 2011 when the changes started to happen. Bikes disappeared and diesel vans took over. (Great for the environment! NOT).

Moved out of London and to another part of the UK. Due to hating what London has become....... Decided to return to RM, in July 2024, as it's a job I knew and I am now 60. Jeeez, nothing changes!

Why oh why are people giving RM their own time? I just don't get it. If the s**t hit the pan, and you did something wrong, RM wouldn't hesitate to take you down the conduct route. You, giving time, helping out, means nothing to them. NOTHING!

Just clock in at your start time. Take your 20 minute break outside. Get back 30 minutes before your end time. Sort out what needs to be done. Then, clock out 20 minutes before your finish time. GO HOME!! Just do everything by the book. RM can't touch you and you have done your best for the day.

Giving time to RM for FREE is utter madness in this day and age. You cannot do job and finish anymore. So getting in early is pointless. You're just making your duty look doable, when it probably isn't and the reserve may struggle because of it.

RM has changed, dramatically, since I left. As an older head, I don't care, I do my work and go home on time. Caring has gone now. Especially earning crap money on new contracts compared to Legacy contracts......

Take it easy. Put yourself first. Don't over stretch yourself.

The end!

[Hyrrokkin]

Started in 1999 and then left in 2011 when the changes started to happen. Bikes disappeared and diesel vans took over. (Great for the environment! NOT).

Moved out of London and to another part of the UK. Due to hating what London has become....... Decided to return to RM, in July 2024, as it's a job I knew and I am now 60. Jeeez, nothing changes!

Why oh why are people giving RM their own time? I just don't get it. If the s**t hit the pan, and you did something wrong, RM wouldn't hesitate to take you down the conduct route. You, giving time, helping out, means nothing to them. NOTHING!

Just clock in at your start time. Take your 20 minute break outside. Get back 30 minutes before your end time. Sort out what needs to be done. Then, clock out 20 minutes before your finish time. GO HOME!! Just do everything by the book. RM can't touch you and you have done your best for the day.

Giving time to RM for FREE is utter madness in this day and age. You cannot do job and finish anymore. So getting in early is pointless. You're just making your duty look doable, when it probably isn't and the reserve may struggle because of it.

RM has changed, dramatically, since I left. As an older head, I don't care, I do my work and go home on time. Caring has gone now. Especially earning crap money on new contracts compared to Legacy contracts......

Take it easy. Put yourself first. Don't over stretch yourself.

The end!

[sindba]

I've also had a rural round for years where I know customers etc, and it's actually pretty easy to work to time but still provide a good service, chat etc.

Just deliver all the vaguely important stuff, and skip any house that only has shite ( marketing crap, catalogues, circulars) - THAT stuff can wait.

[Bellaber]

Where are our shite union, worst year ever utter disgrace

[qwerty2]

Where are our shite union, worst year ever utter disgrace

They’ll be off till February!!!!!!!
Hopefully the end of CWU in 2026

[heraldmoth]

Where are our shite union, worst year ever utter disgrace

All miraculously off on annual leave post Xmas if any of my local units are anything to go by….all you can do is work by your own standards…far worse jobs to be doing unskilled tbh problem with Royal Mail is most take it too personally, if you turn off the stress understand what is achievable on any given day and ignore the intimidation (they can do nothing with the stats they wheel out) it’s still a decent job for the money….Royal Mail if you allow it is a cancer of poor management, gas lighting by union members and a work force of people who think they should be doing better but do nothing about it….myself included

[Mr Rush]

Happened to us last year, manager was blatantly shortchanging people and overpaying his usual guys. A different manager came to me and pretty much admitted/apologised saying it gets vetoed above them

So, recognised and serious financial fraud involving various grades and members of staff?
Either the stuff of BS or time to call IB/Whistleblowers.
I suspect the former.

Not necessarily, it's easy to paint something as a binary either/or issue on here. When you're on the shop floor, have an unrecorded/unwitnessed conversation, perceive an incident as something untoward, it's a totally different matter to spend your own time reporting and risk your own livelihood with the possibility of not providing enough/solid evidence or identifying yourself as the complainant because of that comment the manager made to you.

Seconded. I can only offer an anecdote, as per above: a previous DOM was known to have a habit of tearing up HR16 dockets. It was advised you check the tray holding the sheets on Friday to see if it was still there before admin typed them up. Also known to split payment of claimed hours across more than one week, presumably for budgetary reasons. All alleged, of course.

[Postie45]

Guys stop giving Walter a hard time, yes it took a while to see the light but he got there.
Its clear he was feeling pressure to giving a quality service to his customers, hes now realized that should be coming from the top and not made to be an impossible task for those pounding the streets under impossible circumstances.
Good luck Walter, enjoy feeling less stress in your work.

[Jpro747]

The workload was pretty much the whole reason I left. They increased the size of my round to the point where I was taking out half the mail and just clearing the tracked for the other half, and still going over some days. I listened to my colleagues moan about the size of their deliveries while observing them coming in early, rushing around and working through breaks (mugs). Endured snidey comments from managers and colleagues about me being slow when really I was just doing the job properly. They also crossed the picket line while I stood outside with two others fighting for better conditions for all of us during the Thompson disputes. Working there was like banging your head against a brick wall

It’s up to the posties to grow a backbone and do as Walter is if they want to see change. The useless CWU and labour party aren’t going to do jack s**t.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

One post was deleted because it was an attack on the character of a poster, with no constructive comments

[neviboss]

I foolishly worked through all my breaks this month, apart from one when I was on a van share.

I said to the DOM. I was doing that to clear my parcels and packets, I told him I would need some time in January for hospital appointments, fine he said.

So of course I reminded him at the beginning of this week, he denied all knowledge of it.

So that's it no favours, work to time, take all breaks.

He's F#&@ed himself over now .

I'm also not working my days off now

[yellowbelly]

I foolishly worked through all my breaks this month, apart from one when I was on a van share.

I said to the DOM. I was doing that to clear my parcels and packets, I told him I would need some time in January for hospital appointments, fine he said.

So of course I reminded him at the beginning of this week, he denied all knowledge of it.

So that's it no favours, work to time, take all breaks.

He's F#&@ed himself over now .

I'm also not working my days off now

That's pretty much the experience of most posties, 'favours' never get returned. You get paid for the work you do (most of the time but that's getting screwed up with this SISO system) and that's it - payment for the work done - 'what more do you want' - no 'extra mile' credit. Live and learn. Work, go home, forget about it.

[thefox]

Plentiful favours in our office for managers pets.