How is your office druring Christmas?

i love mail sort · Post by **i love mail sort** » 12 Dec 2008, 18:19

This week has been crazy in our office. It was a big mistake to go to the Pegasus system before Christmas and the managers knew it but still did it. We are leaving the sorting each day at 8am but there are still millions of letters left to sort. It seems we still have to sort tnt etc crap rather than sort the first and second class letters. The over time is going through the roof.

How is your office during xmas?

Oh and acdcording to the managers the christmas pressure does not start till monday

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 12 Dec 2008, 18:26

i love mail sort wrote:This week has been crazy in our office. It was a big mistake to go to the Pegasus system before Christmas and the managers knew it but still did it. We are leaving the sorting each day at 8am but there are still millions of letters left to sort. It seems we still have to sort tnt etc crap rather than sort the first and second class letters. The over time is going through the roof.

How is your office during xmas?

Oh and acdcording to the managers the christmas pressure does not start till monday

And just remember the pressure is all on them they make the decision's and they will live die or survive by their choices!. Good luck and a happy christmas.

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 12 Dec 2008, 18:47

You get to leave at 8am

we've to stay until all the sorting is done which means people are'nt getting out until 9.30-10.00

which just means that people have less time on delivery.

i love mail sort · Post by **i love mail sort** » 12 Dec 2008, 18:56

Leave at 8am to go onto our walks to sort into the frames. I don't get out till 9.30-10.

Tomorrow our hours are 8am till 2.

Post by **Thorby Bislam** » 12 Dec 2008, 20:26

On IPS until it's all been done. Then prep walk. 20 minute break (some of us) and out at 10 - 10:30

postmanplod69 · Post by **postmanplod69** » 12 Dec 2008, 20:29

well in stockport we have 5 sectors and my sector was last off sorting at 9.10am today 8 bags later and i left at 11.15am and arrived back at 3.30pm.

Post by **dvbuk55** » 12 Dec 2008, 20:37

Our office is running like a well oiled machine, frames clear, packets clear, all mail sorted, parcels delivered up to date, sorting is completed by 0630 and frames are prepped and we are leaving on delivery by 0730 - the customers are happy with the service and very often show their appreciation at this time of year. The Callers office is adequately manned and well organised. Prior to delivery we go to the unmanned canteen where a postwoman is preparing beans, toast and sausages at a cost of a few pence with a hot mug of tea/coffee.

Course that was in 1998 but with all our modernisation look at us now

Post by **dvbuk55** » 12 Dec 2008, 20:38

postmanplod69 wrote:well in stockport we have 5 sectors and my sector was last off sorting at 9.10am today 8 bags later and i left at 11.15am and arrived back at 3.30pm.

Well you're obviously not trotting at 4mph

BELIAL · Post by **BELIAL** » 12 Dec 2008, 21:07

Big mish mash, stuff coming in ,not coming in. Somedays nowt but packets till 7.45 then 4|X walksorted trays + 3 trays through IPS. Varies through walks, some out at 8.30; some at 12.00

Shambles with lots of management wilfull delay. Still don't know if I've been paid this week? Any point going in on Monday?

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 12 Dec 2008, 21:10

dvbuk55 wrote:
postmanplod69 wrote:well in stockport we have 5 sectors and my sector was last off sorting at 9.10am today 8 bags later and i left at 11.15am and arrived back at 3.30pm.
Well you're obviously not trotting at 4mph

He's just sent this from buxton i can tell he has a spring in his step.

Post by **dvbuk55** » 12 Dec 2008, 21:45

k979aaa wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
postmanplod69 wrote:well in stockport we have 5 sectors and my sector was last off sorting at 9.10am today 8 bags later and i left at 11.15am and arrived back at 3.30pm.
Well you're obviously not trotting at 4mph
He's just sent this from buxton i can tell he has a spring in his step.

He just can't hold his own water.

Sandyman · Post by **Sandyman** » 12 Dec 2008, 23:33

Monumental amounts of overtime being booked at our D.O. Refuse to work over and the gaffers turn thuggish. IPS finishing well after 9 each day. I don't think we have a DOM any more - there may well be a corpse in that lit office with it's "interview in progress" sheet of A4 over the window in the door. It's like Hotel California, he "can never leave". Q of S is shockingly poor.

BELIAL · Post by **BELIAL** » 12 Dec 2008, 23:52

Took a look a the dockets today . Weird, all the PT walks were booking 2 -2.5 hrs OT

Post by **baldrick** » 13 Dec 2008, 22:46

We've got about 1,300 casuals!

We only have around 1,200 FT and 500 PT regular staff.

BELIAL · Post by **BELIAL** » 14 Dec 2008, 00:15

baldrick wrote:We've got about 1,300 casuals!
We only have around 1,200 FT and 500 PT regular staff.

Lets make it up as we go on