“Take the mail for a ride “

[Walter sobchak]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2knk5d4deo

[theotherone]

Absolutely 100% this happens.
Been told to and did it many a time.

[taurus88]

Crazy thing is that the £37m fine amounts to paying over 1300 staff - maybe not enough to fix the problems, but at least it would offer some respite (I figure we’re at around 70k staff nowadays). It makes no sense to not invest in the workforce, unless your intent is to sabotage the system and offload the unprofitable parts, as many of us suspect.

[Valentina@1]

Also basically forcing staff to work 6 days a week by not covering rest days,it’s really bad,especially when it’s a long weekend,coming back on Tuesday to 3 days of letters(not even prepped)and non tracked parcels ,it’s so stressful,not sure how much more I can take,playing catch up all the time.jobs completely f****d

Sad times

[scotchy1962]

Also basically forcing staff to work 6 days a week by not covering rest days,it’s really bad,especially when it’s a long weekend,coming back on Tuesday to 3 days of letters(not even prepped)and non tracked parcels ,it’s so stressful,not sure how much more I can take,playing catch up all the time.jobs completely f****d

Sad times

There's a solution...... don't work 6 days a week or don't try to catch up.
You do realise that your manager knows you will catch up so he just ignores what's happening and lets you do the damage to yourself. Look after No1 and give yourself a break, also will push the pressure onto your manager.

[TopperGas]

Also basically forcing staff to work 6 days a week by not covering rest days,it’s really bad,especially when it’s a long weekend,coming back on Tuesday to 3 days of letters(not even prepped)and non tracked parcels ,it’s so stressful,not sure how much more I can take,playing catch up all the time.jobs completely f****d

Sad times

There's a solution...... don't work 6 days a week or don't try to catch up.
You do realise that your manager knows you will catch up so he just ignores what's happening and lets you do the damage to yourself. Look after No1 and give yourself a break, also will push the pressure onto your manager.

Problem is if you don't try and catch up then the issue just gets worse and worse each week.

[scotchy1962]

Also basically forcing staff to work 6 days a week by not covering rest days,it’s really bad,especially when it’s a long weekend,coming back on Tuesday to 3 days of letters(not even prepped)and non tracked parcels ,it’s so stressful,not sure how much more I can take,playing catch up all the time.jobs completely f****d

Sad times

There's a solution...... don't work 6 days a week or don't try to catch up.
You do realise that your manager knows you will catch up so he just ignores what's happening and lets you do the damage to yourself. Look after No1 and give yourself a break, also will push the pressure onto your manager.

Problem is if you don't try and catch up then the issue just gets worse and worse each week.

Again i don't think you understand, the problem is not of your making, so why try to clear?
The issue gets worse and worse, i know it's difficult but you really have to get what the problem is.
RM have made the duty too big or not covered you on your day/week off.
Why should you kill yourself to catch up?
They will let your health, both mental and physical, suffer if you want to catch up.
Which means more to you, your health or solving RMs problems?
And lastly, should you really care if it gets worse and worse?
Think about it.

[Chelseablue]

Lying thru his teeth. Incredible,,,, again. In parliament just now.

[Rommagic]

Bring on the heavy and light model instead of 3 into 4 jobs.

[scotchy1962]

Hope some of you listen to "Dan the man" on the committee today, he cares about the worker about as much as "Simple Simon" did.
Trolling out the same old crud, using the same managers to lie as before, they deny everything that you know is true, so how can you believe anything they promise!
Because everything is he/say, she/say and nobody could come forward in person to tell them without the jeopardy of action being taken against them.
I hoped he would clear out some of the halfwits at the top especially "Tricky Ricky" who just flat out lies for a living, but listening to Dan and the fact he sounds like Simon with a accent, i fancy the future for you all looks pretty s**t!

[Mr Rush]

Crazy thing is that the £37m fine amounts to paying over 1300 staff - maybe not enough to fix the problems, but at least it would offer some respite (I figure we’re at around 70k staff nowadays).

The number of staff on delivery, purportedly as low as 60,000 last Christmas, actually tracks with falling letter volumes since single delivery 20 years ago. The problem, as everyone knows, is all the bloody packets which require the 90K+ we had before the strikes.

[TopperGas]

Hope some of you listen to "Dan the man" on the committee today, he cares about the worker about as much as "Simple Simon" did.
Trolling out the same old crud, using the same managers to lie as before, they deny everything that you know is true, so how can you believe anything they promise!
Because everything is he/say, she/say and nobody could come forward in person to tell them without the jeopardy of action being taken against them.
I hoped he would clear out some of the halfwits at the top especially "Tricky Ricky" who just flat out lies for a living, but listening to Dan and the fact he sounds like Simon with a accent, i fancy the future for you all looks pretty s**t!

Simon was clearly working to DK's instructions (who do you think was financing the £1B(?) strike busting war chest?) so it's no surprise that he sounds like Simon, as they are effectively the same person.

Unless the PC somehow forces DK to take some action, as it unlikely as it sounds, RM now looks totally doomed.

Next week could be an interesting one as the LTB ends, so we should finally get some idea what RM have planned re the ODM etc, unless it's extended again until the PC gives it's verdict.

[Postie45]

Also basically forcing staff to work 6 days a week by not covering rest days,it’s really bad,especially when it’s a long weekend,coming back on Tuesday to 3 days of letters(not even prepped)and non tracked parcels ,it’s so stressful,not sure how much more I can take,playing catch up all the time.jobs completely f****d

Sad times 😢

There's a solution...... don't work 6 days a week or don't try to catch up.
You do realise that your manager knows you will catch up so he just ignores what's happening and lets you do the damage to yourself. Look after No1 and give yourself a break, also will push the pressure onto your manager.

Problem is if you don't try and catch up then the issue just gets worse and worse each week.

yeah the MANAGER is really gonna have a stressful time figuring out what to do with all that mail build up

[thefox]

Also basically forcing staff to work 6 days a week by not covering rest days,it’s really bad,especially when it’s a long weekend,coming back on Tuesday to 3 days of letters(not even prepped)and non tracked parcels ,it’s so stressful,not sure how much more I can take,playing catch up all the time.jobs completely f****d

Sad times

There's a solution...... don't work 6 days a week or don't try to catch up.
You do realise that your manager knows you will catch up so he just ignores what's happening and lets you do the damage to yourself. Look after No1 and give yourself a break, also will push the pressure onto your manager.

Spot on scotchy.

[sindba]

The only real power we have against unrealistic workloads is a contractual finish time.

Never unerstand why so many posties refuse to use it.

If you don't want to do extra work to clear, then just don't.