The "How was your day" thread.

majeed · Post by **majeed** » 09 Sep 2008, 01:10

First letter 9.08; last letter 2.35. Had week's first row of D2D's plus five bundles of electoral walk sorted mech mail, so it was almost like doing nearly a full frame of D2D's - every single house, almost. Also, some fly poster had been around and put his leaflets into letter boxes but not pushed them through (expecting me to do the rest of his work for him), or else, left them hanging outside of the letterbox, held by the force of the flap; what a mess it made, as many just fell to the floor as I pushed letters through. Quite tired as I have not been sleeping well (something to do with the scone?). Generally light day otherwise - perhaps the Autumn madness experienced last week is coming to an end!

Broxi51 · Post by **Broxi51** » 09 Sep 2008, 01:17

Absolutely hammered today. Felt like xmas without the happy xmas spirit we all get

Our DO has yorks of mail coming out the door with all the mail they had to push to one side.
Looks like a week of madness ahead

Timelord · Post by **Timelord** » 09 Sep 2008, 13:30

Miserable, rained most of the morning. It was a fairly light Tuesday but we've just started using HCT's and quite frankly the nicest round on the lightest of days is not going to be good in my opinion.

ad0128 · Post by **ad0128** » 09 Sep 2008, 15:20

Clobbered after yesterdays bank holiday.......Us part-time guys were asked to go in early and couldnt believe getting onto steet by 9.50................a nice quick finish i thought..................... a flash flood later

1405 last letter

majeed · Post by **majeed** » 09 Sep 2008, 16:02

10.00 start; 2.15 finish. Rain, which lightened-off towards afternoon. Slowed down by D2Ds, fashion catalogues and election letters. Met other postie on neighbouring walk who had also finished later than expected.

majeed · Post by **majeed** » 09 Sep 2008, 16:04

ad0128 wrote:Clobbered after yesterdays bank holiday...

Bank holiday? Er, wasn't that two weeks ago?

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 09 Sep 2008, 16:06

majeed wrote:
ad0128 wrote:Clobbered after yesterdays bank holiday...
Bank holiday? Er, wasn't that two weeks ago?

The Jocks did not get the August one so got one this week. NI and Scotland have variations on the English and Welsh Public Holidays.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 09 Sep 2008, 16:07

Not bad today and after hearing some horror stories I feel lucky.

First 1000 - last 1330 - just as it should be

. Rained for about an 1 hour at start of duty then overcast but no rain. Got rid of 5 out of 7 bulbs I took out so all in all quiet a successful day.

heapsy · Post by **heapsy** » 09 Sep 2008, 18:38

s**t day. Everyone out late, and quite a few booked. This is mainly due to the early finish time of 12.45 on a Tuesday. We get off the ips and we have about 15 mins before it's break time. Just can't see things working. Peeps are getting a bit frustrated now because they really are trying to make it work, but getting off the ips late, coupled with larger deliveries just isn't working. Morale is almost as low as when SDD came in.

johnnyp · Post by **johnnyp** » 09 Sep 2008, 18:43

Very heavy for a Tuesday

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 09 Sep 2008, 18:47

heapsy wrote:s**t day. Everyone out late, and quite a few booked. This is mainly due to the early finish time of 12.45 on a Tuesday. We get off the ips and we have about 15 mins before it's break time. Just can't see things working. Peeps are getting a bit frustrated now because they really are trying to make it work, but getting off the ips late, coupled with larger deliveries just isn't working. Morale is almost as low as when SDD came in.

We can only dream or morale being as high as it was during SDD

We've just had another go off on the sick and have several others who are on the brink of breaking

(but because of stage warnings cannot go sick).

I've worked in several places, including businesses that had mass redundencies but have never known morale to be as low as it is in RM.

smokerjim · Post by **smokerjim** » 09 Sep 2008, 19:19

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:Not bad today and after hearing some horror stories I feel lucky.

First 1000 - last 1330 - just as it should be . Rained for about an 1 hour at start of duty then overcast but no rain. Got rid of 5 out of 7 bulbs I took out so all in all quiet a successful day.

Pretty much how I feel today - it was nice to finish a bit early, on a very light day, especially after a horror of a week I had last week.....sadly I've got 100% of D2Ds in my frame tomorrow

majeed · Post by **majeed** » 09 Sep 2008, 19:59

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:Not bad today and after hearing some horror stories I feel lucky.

First 1000 - last 1330 - just as it should be . Rained for about an 1 hour at start of duty then overcast but no rain. Got rid of 5 out of 7 bulbs I took out so all in all quiet a successful day.

Yes - we managed to attempt delivery of the light bulbs in our district: our manager asked a driver to collect them all and take them out. I had two mail trays with light bulbs from rows two and three on my frame, all neatly sequenced (aren't I a good boy?

). British Gas will be pleased! Also, spookily enough, and just like you Teebs - the weather behaved exactly the same: just now, in the last few hours it has come down heavy - and I mean - heavy.

BELIAL · Post by **BELIAL** » 09 Sep 2008, 21:08

Crap ,3.5 on a tuesday

ad0128 · Post by **ad0128** » 10 Sep 2008, 14:28

finished on time

very quiet. Passed one guy at my half way point....heading for bus home

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