I find the longer serving posties want the single duties because that's the way they have always worked
Not so, says Martin Walsh in a deceptively broad definition of the history of teamwork in RM.
Why, you could say we've always worked in vans. Yes, we had the crewbuses but you were only in them for about 20 minutes before being dropped off. Not all f***ing day (although it felt like it with some drivers taking the piss with the bag drops). Eight guys in an LDV heading out at 8AM on a Saturday - now that was camaraderie. I miss it so much
Was that starburst?
No, it was the good old days, start at 5, everyone on IPS, get out at 7, duties planned for a 9.30 last letter so approx 2.5 hrs duty, the LDV part is the crewbus dropping multiple posties off, the driver did bag drops and the 10 or so larger parcels for several duties that they couldn't fit in - yes that's it you heard it correctly, 10 or so, the difference between part and full time was full time stayed and did either IPS for the following day or second delivery.
I find the longer serving posties want the single duties because that's the way they have always worked
Not so, says Martin Walsh in a deceptively broad definition of the history of teamwork in RM.
Why, you could say we've always worked in vans. Yes, we had the crewbuses but you were only in them for about 20 minutes before being dropped off. Not all f***ing day (although it felt like it with some drivers taking the piss with the bag drops). Eight guys in an LDV heading out at 8AM on a Saturday - now that was camaraderie. I miss it so much
Was that starburst?
No, it was the good old days, start at 5, everyone on IPS, get out at 7, duties planned for a 9.30 last letter so approx 2.5 hrs duty, the LDV part is the crewbus dropping multiple posties off, the driver did bag drops and the 10 or so larger parcels for several duties that they couldn't fit in - yes that's it you heard it correctly, 10 or so, the difference between part and full time was full time stayed and did either IPS for the following day or second delivery.
I'm nearly in tears reminiscing about it
Yes i rem those days well. Every frame clear in the office (or else). Finished well before the hottest part of the day. Proper breakfast break in the subsidised canteen laughing with your mates. Keen to get out on the 2nd delivery as you knew you were almost done for the day. Then not going home totally exhausted and actually having some energy left for a proper life outside work. Sadly long gone now.
Rows of houses all bearing down on me........I can feel their blue hands touching me.......All these things in all positions.........All these things will one day take control..........
I find the longer serving posties want the single duties because that's the way they have always worked
Not so, says Martin Walsh in a deceptively broad definition of the history of teamwork in RM.
Why, you could say we've always worked in vans. Yes, we had the crewbuses but you were only in them for about 20 minutes before being dropped off. Not all f***ing day (although it felt like it with some drivers taking the piss with the bag drops). Eight guys in an LDV heading out at 8AM on a Saturday - now that was camaraderie. I miss it so much
Was that starburst?
No, it was the good old days, start at 5, everyone on IPS, get out at 7, duties planned for a 9.30 last letter so approx 2.5 hrs duty, the LDV part is the crewbus dropping multiple posties off, the driver did bag drops and the 10 or so larger parcels for several duties that they couldn't fit in - yes that's it you heard it correctly, 10 or so, the difference between part and full time was full time stayed and did either IPS for the following day or second delivery.
I'm nearly in tears reminiscing about it
Brilliant days…….yes you worked hard to get out at 6:30 then completing the round to make sure you got the van back in time for meal relief. Some tough days especially when you had utility bills for every house or in later times Sky mags etc. There seemed to be a lot of bulk postings back then. But it was so simple back then…..as we all say nowadays it’s a simple job that’s been unnecessarily complicated by arseholes (read Uni gobshites with no understanding of the fact that what a computer churns out doesn’t match with the real world). God just imagine for one moment that those days could return !!!!’n
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Like sky tv and cable tv magazines come in on the same day and you had to do them all
Nostalgia’s rose-tinted lens often paints the past in a deceptively idyllic light, shaping our memories and influencing our decisions more profoundly than we might realize.
Yeah, I get that. Problem is, it was better even when it was bad...
When I started I was struggling and it took me six hours to complete the duty (bank holiday + strike backlog + bulk posting) - a 3PM finish which is more than half an hour earlier than I can scan out now with half a break. I slept in on a Saturday once and was out so late I'd actually be an hour under my time today. If I missed the van I'd be finished an hour and a half earlier than I am now. At Christmas when the attendance was longer, I'd be finished two hours earlier than I am now.
It seems like quite a few people forget that it's the mix of mail that has changed massively over the last decade. There's way less letters and flats (dropped off massively when the GDPR regs kicked in), and packets are way up, and these days most packets that aren't from abroad are Tracked. There are now more and more letters and flats that are Tracked, so much so that MCs have a letter frame and a flat frame which the Tracked letters and flats are sorted on, and they go in their own trays with dedicated tray labels.
There are now more and more letters and flats that are Tracked, so much so that MCs have a letter frame and a flat frame which the Tracked letters and flats are sorted on, and they go in their own trays with dedicated tray labels.
We had those trays on Saturday, 8 trays of tracked letters/flats (mainly Moonpig cards), mixed in a York of packets. One of the trays was actually upside down when I uncovered it. Took ages to sort.
There are now more and more letters and flats that are Tracked, so much so that MCs have a letter frame and a flat frame which the Tracked letters and flats are sorted on, and they go in their own trays with dedicated tray labels.
We had those trays on Saturday, 8 trays of tracked letters/flats (mainly Moonpig cards), mixed in a York of packets. One of the trays was actually upside down when I uncovered it. Took ages to sort.
Were the trays at the top? if so it might well have been the driver moved them into the sleeve to free up space on the lorry.
There are now more and more letters and flats that are Tracked, so much so that MCs have a letter frame and a flat frame which the Tracked letters and flats are sorted on, and they go in their own trays with dedicated tray labels.
We had those trays on Saturday, 8 trays of tracked letters/flats (mainly Moonpig cards), mixed in a York of packets. One of the trays was actually upside down when I uncovered it. Took ages to sort.
Were the trays at the top? if so it might well have been the driver moved them into the sleeve to free up space on the lorry.
!!!!’n