dm26

[The Goats Toe]

So with all these changes coming in, is there any provision for those folk who are on family friendly and those that met all the required criteria last year to be exempt from the later start times? Any time people at our place ask the yellow hi viz wearers about this, all they get is 'we don't know ...

[TopperGas]

80 1c seems high, was that double or more even days 1c? Just wait til DM26 starts and you also have to deliver the 2c which has hit the 3 & 5 day triggers!!

I regularly get 70+ first class/NHS letters/flats. It’s not uncommon.

Most of the stuff that isn't flats can't be mech. If you was to take the 2C and the non 1C DSA out of the mech then each batch would have less than 1/4 of a tray with just half a dozen, a dozen at the very most 1C items for each walk.

I actually counted them on Saturday. 33 NHS letters, 4 first class flats, 38 first class stamped/franked letters. Total 75 first class, not including packets. That was an average day.

NHS letters aren't 1c though if you're struggling to deliver everything on a Saturday then those will be the first to be left undelivered.

[funkflex55]

80 1c seems high, was that double or more even days 1c? Just wait til DM26 starts and you also have to deliver the 2c which has hit the 3 & 5 day triggers!!

I regularly get 70+ first class/NHS letters/flats. It’s not uncommon.

Most of the stuff that isn't flats can't be mech. If you was to take the 2C and the non 1C DSA out of the mech then each batch would have less than 1/4 of a tray with just half a dozen, a dozen at the very most 1C items for each walk.

I actually counted them on Saturday. 33 NHS letters, 4 first class flats, 38 first class stamped/franked letters. Total 75 first class, not including packets. That was an average day.

NHS letters aren't 1c though if you're struggling to deliver everything on a Saturday then those will be the first to be left undelivered.

Yep. In fact on a Saturday the NHS should be staying at the mail centre.

[tramssirhc]

So with all these changes coming in, is there any provision for those folk who are on family friendly and those that met all the required criteria last year to be exempt from the later start times? Any time people at our place ask the yellow hi viz wearers about this, all they get is 'we don't know ...

Yes there is. The agreement makes specific reference to contract variations.

[postmanplod2026]

currently in my office the union have failed the part timers as there is no part time walks just full time but part timers put on them with no chance of getting near complete, probably same again from union

[SpacePhoenix]

80 1c seems high, was that double or more even days 1c? Just wait til DM26 starts and you also have to deliver the 2c which has hit the 3 & 5 day triggers!!

I regularly get 70+ first class/NHS letters/flats. It’s not uncommon.

Most of the stuff that isn't flats can't be mech. If you was to take the 2C and the non 1C DSA out of the mech then each batch would have less than 1/4 of a tray with just half a dozen, a dozen at the very most 1C items for each walk.

I actually counted them on Saturday. 33 NHS letters, 4 first class flats, 38 first class stamped/franked letters. Total 75 first class, not including packets. That was an average day.

NHS letters aren't 1c though if you're struggling to deliver everything on a Saturday then those will be the first to be left undelivered.

Yep. In fact on a Saturday the NHS should be staying at the mail centre.

The NHS letters are considered high priority items. For selected DOs the machines extract them, before they get run on their own on the office breakdown plan. They will ALWAYS go out to the DOs.

[A2B]

The NHS letters are considered high priority items. For selected DOs the machines extract them, before they get run on their own on the office breakdown plan. They will ALWAYS go out to the DOs.

Our MC spends them in with the specials, Tracked, 1st class and NHS is the mantra in our DO

[ted_e_bear]

The NHS letters are considered high priority items. For selected DOs the machines extract them, before they get run on their own on the office breakdown plan. They will ALWAYS go out to the DOs.

Our MC spends them in with the specials, Tracked, 1st class and NHS is the mantra in our DO

RM need to liaise with the NHS to differentiate between what's important and what is general correspondence, for example I received a "NHS letter" informing me they're going to send one of those bowel cancer screening kits, I didn't desperately need that letter it could have waited,in fact I probably didn't even need it at all, maybe agree that if it's say an appointment or test results send it 1st class, anything else send it DSA or whatever economy service and it gets treated the same as anything else.

[twoloops]

This DM26 apart from on here is anyone in your office talking about it or even mentioning it, in our office never heard of it?

[SpacePhoenix]

The NHS letters are considered high priority items. For selected DOs the machines extract them, before they get run on their own on the office breakdown plan. They will ALWAYS go out to the DOs.

Our MC spends them in with the specials, Tracked, 1st class and NHS is the mantra in our DO

RM need to liaise with the NHS to differentiate between what's important and what is general correspondence, for example I received a "NHS letter" informing me they're going to send one of those bowel cancer screening kits, I didn't desperately need that letter it could have waited,in fact I probably didn't even need it at all, maybe agree that if it's say an appointment or test results send it 1st class, anything else send it DSA or whatever economy service and it gets treated the same as anything else.

They should go back to having blue envelopes for the important letters, like they did a few years ago.

[hans solo]

We had a bulk 1st class posting from nhs on sat

[thefox]

This DM26 apart from on here is anyone in your office talking about it or even mentioning it, in our office never heard of it?

Our manager is trying to ignore it

[Mr Rush]

RM need to liaise with the NHS to differentiate between what's important and what is general correspondence [...]

They should go back to having blue envelopes for the important letters, like they did a few years ago.

What I've noticed is that anything non-urgent, as relayed to me by customers, has the NHS logotype on it. Anything actually important is sent in a completely anonymous envelope with only the return address (poorly) printed on the front as a clue, presumably for reasons of privacy. The extraction of NHS items by must be for a very very select number of DOs.

We've been told our office goes over to DM26 on August 17th. I do not know if we're one of the trial offices - if they even care to trial it.

[ted_e_bear]

RM need to liaise with the NHS to differentiate between what's important and what is general correspondence [...]

They should go back to having blue envelopes for the important letters, like they did a few years ago.

What I've noticed is that anything non-urgent, as relayed to me by customers, has the NHS logotype on it. Anything actually important is sent in a completely anonymous envelope with only the return address (poorly) printed on the front as a clue, presumably for reasons of privacy. The extraction of NHS items by must be for a very very select number of DOs.

We've been told our office goes over to DM26 on August 17th. I do not know if we're one of the trial offices - if they even care to trial it.

It's the same here, a brown envelope with the PO box number for one of the main hospitals printed on the front, these will be treat with the same contempt as most other items of mail, imo this subject has blown up because of complaints in the press about people not receiving appointments etc in time so as usual rather than addressing the issue properly it's a blanket everything that says NHS on it has to be prioritised whether it's of any urgency whatsoever.

[TopperGas]

RM need to liaise with the NHS to differentiate between what's important and what is general correspondence [...]

They should go back to having blue envelopes for the important letters, like they did a few years ago.

What I've noticed is that anything non-urgent, as relayed to me by customers, has the NHS logotype on it. Anything actually important is sent in a completely anonymous envelope with only the return address (poorly) printed on the front as a clue, presumably for reasons of privacy. The extraction of NHS items by must be for a very very select number of DOs.

We've been told our office goes over to DM26 on August 17th. I do not know if we're one of the trial offices - if they even care to trial it.

I assumed all DO's, or at least MC's, extracted important NHS letters, the problem at our DO is that on arrival they are just sorted normally so it's Impossible to know what considered urgent and not so urgent!