New delivery model...

[Poshpost]

Can anyone furnish any details regarding the new "delivery model"? Our rep says its coming, yet he knows no details, and I have seen it refered to in a few posts on this site, what is it?

[johnnyp]

This might be what you mean

Royal Mail’s plans for Delivery Offices are probably the most detailed of the lot. Royal mail’s vision for Delivery Offices is based on the Dutch TNT model which works on the basis of a ratio of 10 Part Timers to 1 Full Timer. The Full Time staff do not go out on Delivery but prep the work for Part Timers. Royal mail has a similar vision which is based on jobs being designed for 20 hour weeks and then fitting Full Timers around the Part Timers. Their plan is based on a 5 phase strategy. The initial stages are to ensure that everyone has a Pegasus revision and an indoor workload revision. The second phase is to impose a longer delivery span. The third is walk sequencing and later starts. The fourth phase is team working and further savings and the final phase is to amalgamate offices and maximise savings by asking delivery staff to cross current postcode boundaries to deliver.
Finally, Royal Mail’s strategy is based on standard operating procedure which is basically planned around making all delivery offices the same. For example: ensuring that everyone, in every part of the country, is on the same attendance time and has the same overtime opportunities. Their plan is to bring everyone down to the lowest cost per item Delivery Office.
All of these proposals are unacceptable to the CWU and will be opposed. Royal Mail is threatening to bring in their plans by executive action. The CWU has carried a policy of no further savings until we get the right agreement on all the issues that affect the Members.

[Poshpost]

Thanks for the reply johnnyp....

[krussel]

This might be what you mean

Royal Mail’s plans for Delivery Offices are probably the most detailed of the lot. Royal mail’s vision for Delivery Offices is based on the Dutch TNT model which works on the basis of a ratio of 10 Part Timers to 1 Full Timer. The Full Time staff do not go out on Delivery but prep the work for Part Timers. Royal mail has a similar vision which is based on jobs being designed for 20 hour weeks and then fitting Full Timers around the Part Timers. Their plan is based on a 5 phase strategy. The initial stages are to ensure that everyone has a Pegasus revision and an indoor workload revision. The second phase is to impose a longer delivery span. The third is walk sequencing and later starts. The fourth phase is team working and further savings and the final phase is to amalgamate offices and maximise savings by asking delivery staff to cross current postcode boundaries to deliver.
Finally, Royal Mail’s strategy is based on standard operating procedure which is basically planned around making all delivery offices the same. For example: ensuring that everyone, in every part of the country, is on the same attendance time and has the same overtime opportunities. Their plan is to bring everyone down to the lowest cost per item Delivery Office.
All of these proposals are unacceptable to the CWU and will be opposed. Royal Mail is threatening to bring in their plans by executive action. The CWU has carried a policy of no further savings until we get the right agreement on all the issues that affect the Members.

It all sounds pretty terrible to me

[Puppetmaster]

What really worries me is longer delivery times, I Dont know I PHYSICALY COULD DO a 4.15hrs delivery.I know you are meant to have a half hour break,but we all know RM time compared to real time .So many people dont take breaks now and complete on time,but if had meal releif ,would go over.Yeah if every one sticks together,but people all have diffrent reasons for doing things tey have always done.

And if 2 of you crew a van and do 2 large walks and packets and specials ,???
Also if you dont get on with the other guy .How do they ensure workload is fair,and specials,only one person can be responsible surely.
really would like to hear what the CWU think of this new delivery model,that is if the National guys still have a voice.

[johnnyp]

What really worries me is longer delivery times, I Dont know I PHYSICALY COULD DO a 4.15hrs delivery.I know you are meant to have a half hour break,but we all know RM time compared to real time .So many people dont take breaks now and complete on time,but if had meal releif ,would go over.Yeah if every one sticks together,but people all have diffrent reasons for doing things tey have always done.

And if 2 of you crew a van and do 2 large walks and packets and specials ,???
Also if you dont get on with the other guy .How do they ensure workload is fair,and specials,only one person can be responsible surely.
really would like to hear what the CWU think of this new delivery model,that is if the National guys still have a voice.

The CWU are totally against this new delivery model,but admit things must change and in that change will be a longer delivery span,its how long is the 64 million dollar question.In this months voice Bob Gibson talks about the CWUs delivery blue print and mentions a few bits and bobs(which at the moment i can not think off )

[TrueBlueTerrier]

BUILDING A POSITIVE FUTURE

CWU national postal officers are each working to develop a vision for a positive future for
our industry, providing workers with secure and rewarding employment and delivering an
excellent service to the public. Here, Bob Gibson outlines his Blueprint for Delivery...

There is no doubt that delivery work is changing. Automation will alter the balance of indoor to outdoor work. For our members, all this means changes in working practices, changes which must be jointly agreed in line with a clear vision for a future delivery model, one which delivers benefits for our members and improved services for the public.

This is a brief summary of the key principles which will form the basis of the union’s input into the negotiations with the company on a new national agreement covering a revised delivery model, a process which we aim to have concluded by the end of April prior to a ballot of the members.

Job security

No change will be successful unless our members understand and support it and job security is crucial in bringing that about. As part of that, we need Royal Mail to commit to retaining a predominantly full-time workforce whilst providing security for those wishing to remain part time and opportunities for others to progress to full time.

There must also be a commitment to the maintenance of current and future earnings potential. Health and safety Royal Mail must accept its responsibility to ensure that workers take their breaks, use the right equipment in the right way for the job and cease the use of private cars on delivery. There must also be a commitment to fair and manageable workloads and to ensuring all working
environments are as safe and secure as possible.

Delivery specifications

There should be a first and last letter time for deliveries, which must be consistent and reliable. There should be a nationally greed delivery time for business mail of between 7am and 10am. And both of these should be enshrined in the USO. Specific delivery spans should be determined locally within these parameters, and within the context of a new national agreement.

Changes to delivery spans must encourage the use of innovative attendance patterns - three-day weeks, four-day weeks and nineday fortnights.

Door-to-Door has been an unresolved issue for too long and it must feature within the agreement too.

Callers’ offices We should look at extending opening hours, perhaps move to a sevenday service and introduce new facilities.
Posting as well as collecting, swipe-card entry, locker collection and local delivery registers would all improve service, generate revenue and create jobs.

Technology and trials

We need a joint understanding of the implications of technology and automation, the use of revision tools and planning methods and terms of reference and guiding principles for future trials. It is essential that all databank and planning values are shared with the CWU.

Underlining all of this must be a commitment to specific local implementation - through local negotiation and agreement - within the framework of the new national agreement.

[resperin]

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There must also be a commitment to the maintenance of current and future earnings potential. Health and safety Royal Mail must accept its responsibility to ensure that workers take their breaks, use the right equipment in the right way for the job and cease the use of private cars on delivery.

nice. at the moment theres too little enforcement of it in the majority of offices. people should be working to their time, thats what they get paid to do.

[Wiltshireboy]

I do a 4-5 hr delivery most days anyway. If it is a "light-ish " day, I can get round in under 4 hrs. Today was 3hrs 40.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

I do a 4-5 hr delivery most days anyway. If it is a "light-ish " day, I can get round in under 4 hrs. Today was 3hrs 40.

If that's true ask for a walk test. There is a National agreement that no walks should be planned to go over 3.5hrs. I am pretty confident that the manager will only be claiming 3.5 hrs normal time on that duty to keep his bonus pot growing, and 1/2hr to 1.5hrs as pressure or lapsed overtime.