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The unknown of DM26
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Whippy
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Re: The unknown of DM26
Doesn’t really matter what comes in ODM 2.0, DM26 or whatever fancy name they want to call it. Start time finish time..do what you can within that time. Bring back what you can’t.
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mr hil.
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Re: The unknown of DM26
In the van share pairing one walk will be "heavy" (all mail and parcels) and one will be "light" (1st class, parcels and coincidental mail). The posties will "park and loop" both rounds together as they do now. They will also take a third of each of the other two duties in their "POD" these will also be one heavy and one light. They can do this because the expected call rate of the light duties is only about 20%. The light and heavy will switch on the second day etc...
The singleton driver in the "POD" will prep the other two duties and deliver two thirds of each walk, one of which be "heavy" and one "light".
This is Monday to Friday.
All town duties are a "light" day on Saturday so no 2nd class or down stream access mail. It's expected that Saturdays will be one postie will do two TOWN walks (1st class, parcels and coincidental mail). They will get assistance from any Rural or Firms to help even out the workload (just like the lapsing we do now) This means that the really parcel heavy duties will be helped the most, that is where the local knowledge comes in to play during the planning.
This will only work if the duties are currently achievable, if they are failing now then they should be reduced, that is why all the extra duties are being put back in.
The mail centres will only send mail that is due in the mech trays, automatically holding anything that isn't due delivery on the "light" walks. The manual mail (flats and non machinable letters) cannot be held at the mail centre so will be sent to the DO but it will be segregated into 1st and second class. The DO will sort the Manual into the different coloured IPS frames so the first class will be easily identifiable. All first class manual will go out every day as it does now, with the second class manual delivered every other day.
On paper this could work but the planning has to be got right. The Rural and Firms duties will be doing 50/50 heavy and light so will have some time to pick up some of the excess that is generated when reducing the Town walks to make them achievable.
The singleton driver in the "POD" will prep the other two duties and deliver two thirds of each walk, one of which be "heavy" and one "light".
This is Monday to Friday.
All town duties are a "light" day on Saturday so no 2nd class or down stream access mail. It's expected that Saturdays will be one postie will do two TOWN walks (1st class, parcels and coincidental mail). They will get assistance from any Rural or Firms to help even out the workload (just like the lapsing we do now) This means that the really parcel heavy duties will be helped the most, that is where the local knowledge comes in to play during the planning.
This will only work if the duties are currently achievable, if they are failing now then they should be reduced, that is why all the extra duties are being put back in.
The mail centres will only send mail that is due in the mech trays, automatically holding anything that isn't due delivery on the "light" walks. The manual mail (flats and non machinable letters) cannot be held at the mail centre so will be sent to the DO but it will be segregated into 1st and second class. The DO will sort the Manual into the different coloured IPS frames so the first class will be easily identifiable. All first class manual will go out every day as it does now, with the second class manual delivered every other day.
On paper this could work but the planning has to be got right. The Rural and Firms duties will be doing 50/50 heavy and light so will have some time to pick up some of the excess that is generated when reducing the Town walks to make them achievable.