PDA Talk

tommymac · Post by **tommymac** » 15 Oct 2008, 23:31

I've used a PDA for over a week now with 70+ specials and recordeds per day. It's easy enough to use and quicker for bulk drops. Just think,21st century technology in Burslem and RM managers say we are stuck in the '70's

Post by **POSTMAN** » 16 Oct 2008, 15:53

I got trained up the other day,and i thought it was a nightmare,seems too much fiddleing about for me and my guys.

Also there is no National Agreement so how come you guys are using them?

johno47 · Post by **johno47** » 16 Oct 2008, 18:04

We are not using them, we were given tuition on them and told to go out and just have try with them, ive used mine for one day, seems easy enough to use but, it isnt any quicker, where before you gave your card to the customer and asked them to sign and print, you now have to ask them their name and you have to enter it, then get them to sign the box, and when its p***ing down and you have to put it down so you can write a docket out when theres no answer, its just a pain, we wont be using them until theres an agreement on their use

Post by **rockytony67** » 16 Oct 2008, 18:30

johno47 wrote:We are not using them, we were given tuition on them and told to go out and just have try with them, ive used mine for one day, seems easy enough to use but, it isnt any quicker, where before you gave your card to the customer and asked them to sign and print, you now have to ask them their name and you have to enter it, then get them to sign the box, and when its p***ing down and you have to put it down so you can write a docket out when theres no answer, its just a pain, we wont be using them until theres an agreement on their use

Johno what are they telling you to do when the person who opens the door is not the name on the item, what name do you put in ?

not me · Post by **not me** » 16 Oct 2008, 18:36

rockytony67 wrote:
johno47 wrote:We are not using them, we were given tuition on them and told to go out and just have try with them, ive used mine for one day, seems easy enough to use but, it isnt any quicker, where before you gave your card to the customer and asked them to sign and print, you now have to ask them their name and you have to enter it, then get them to sign the box, and when its p***ing down and you have to put it down so you can write a docket out when theres no answer, its just a pain, we wont be using them until theres an agreement on their use
Johno what are they telling you to do when the person who opens the door is not the name on the item, what name do you put in ?

the person who is signing

axeman · Post by **axeman** » 16 Oct 2008, 18:45

Perfect ...for those that have refugees , polish residents, and all the others that can't or won't speak a word of english and whose signature bears no resemblence to our writen language

Post by **rockytony67** » 16 Oct 2008, 18:56

axeman wrote:Perfect ...for those that have refugees , polish residents, and all the others that can't or won't speak a word of english and whose signature bears no resemblence to our writen language

My thoughts exactly axeman, in certain parts of the country that is just not going to happen

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 16 Oct 2008, 19:00

rockytony67 wrote:
axeman wrote:Perfect ...for those that have refugees , polish residents, and all the others that can't or won't speak a word of english and whose signature bears no resemblence to our writen language
My thoughts exactly axeman, in certain parts of the country that is just not going to happen

How many will be signed by Hugh Jarz

Post by **janitor** » 16 Oct 2008, 19:13

axeman wrote:Perfect ...for those that have refugees , polish residents, and all the others that can't or won't speak a word of english and whose signature bears no resemblence to our writen language

It doesn't really matter even native english peoples signatures don't resemble our language on these pdas.

axeman · Post by **axeman** » 16 Oct 2008, 19:19

Ah but you have to input it first and if you have a less than perfect command of zulu or some other unusual foreign lingo then where do you go from there ?

bandit650 · Post by **bandit650** » 16 Oct 2008, 19:46

Most of ours work in a fashion but then like today some of the guy's said that they started mucking around like saying pin invalid,some of the lads are out in real rural areas and they just wont work so they are back to the cards.

johno47 · Post by **johno47** » 16 Oct 2008, 19:58

Rockytony, as the lads have said, you have to put in the person who is signing for the item name, but as some others have said when you get someone who cant speak english let alone spell it, your in for time consuming problems, ive had people in the past put X down for printed name and when i asked them to sign they put another X down, it worked out in the end cus they did my pools coupon that week for me, but you can see the problems that are going to arise..

Post by **POSTMAN** » 16 Oct 2008, 20:54

Most of the peeps that have to sign my stuff can't speak a lot of English,i mean 'Sign then print please' it aint f***ing hard!

Also some of the surnames have about 20 letters in them!

dunposting · Post by **dunposting** » 16 Oct 2008, 21:04

rockytony67 wrote:
johno47 wrote:We are not using them, we were given tuition on them and told to go out and just have try with them, ive used mine for one day, seems easy enough to use but, it isnt any quicker, where before you gave your card to the customer and asked them to sign and print, you now have to ask them their name and you have to enter it, then get them to sign the box, and when its p***ing down and you have to put it down so you can write a docket out when theres no answer, its just a pain, we wont be using them until theres an agreement on their use
Johno what are they telling you to do when the person who opens the door is not the name on the item, what name do you put in ?

I was told you put the name in thats on the item being delivered

johno47 · Post by **johno47** » 16 Oct 2008, 22:10

Thats what i thought, but what if you go to a house where theres a couple who arnt married and the boyfriend signs for a packet thats for his girlfriend, the whole point of sign and print is so that if the signature is not legible, the printed part makes that signature legible, i dare say there are more examples but thats just one, like i say pain in the a**e