The "How was your day" thread.

Post by **Redyam** » 30 Sep 2009, 23:33

I had a long argument with my boss on why I had to go on IPS sorting every day, on a 6 hour contract. He didn't have a good reply for me, and blamed it on the mail centre.

Booked 1hr 20 mins overtime.

heapsy · Post by **heapsy** » 01 Oct 2009, 10:42

Monday wasn't as bad as usual. Tuesday and Wednesday were about the same. Packets have been ok but plenty of recorded deliveries. They've been going round the office checking the A Plus getting ready for the new deliveries. These are supposed to be coming in around January, together with the sorting machine.

eian687 · Post by **eian687** » 01 Oct 2009, 15:21

crap day today, loads of letters packets and recordeds

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 01 Oct 2009, 17:30

It's been a complete nightmare all week, it's a good job mail volumes are down

Post by **baldrick** » 01 Oct 2009, 21:06

Despite the Geordie managers working in the basement, our MC is still full of
yorks of mail from Nine Elms. Our work is still being sent out to other offices.
This morning one of the artics sent to Jubilee MC (who have been doing our work
on open docket for the last few weeks) was turned away as they had no more room.
The driver brought it back and it was unloaded.Ten minutes later the shift manager
had the work put back on and sent back to Jubilee MC again. Seems RM have found
a way of dealing with the backlog - sending it up and down the motorway.

redspartapost · Post by **redspartapost** » 02 Oct 2009, 15:53

heavy day lots of mailsort, dom put a night shift in to clear back log.light drizzle all day the kind that soaks you right through.delivery took 3hours 55mins with 30 mins booked o/t.left 2 trays of mailsort ,hope its not to busy tommorrow ,but saturdays are allready bad cos of the erratic feed times 5.00am start on saturdays pointless now .

eian687 · Post by **eian687** » 02 Oct 2009, 16:13

heavy day again but on an easy walk so made some time 1st time in a while i got home early

morleyposty · Post by **morleyposty** » 02 Oct 2009, 16:18

stop-start-busy day with loads of packets and 739's.
went over by 20mins

im glad its my day off tommorow

OnAFlyer · Post by **OnAFlyer** » 02 Oct 2009, 17:00

Unbelievably heavy today. Hardly any walksort but cages and cages full of magazines - lots of them Mailsort but they put the lot on.

The Union rep was writing down everyone's bag weights as they are arguing that collapsing should now stop (there wasn't any today anyway).

I had 9 bags, the most bundles in a bag was 4. I couldn't believe some of my bag weights tbh, i'd split the walk down so no bag took me more than 30 mins, some were 15 min bags (a couple I split down further when I got to the walk)

Bag 1 18.4kg
Bag 2 17.8kg
Bag 3 12.2kg
Bag 4 21.8kg (4 hand sized bundles, 1 tiny packet, no D2D's at all

)
Bag 5 14.2kg
Bag 6 11kg
Bag 7 13.2kg
Bag 8 12.2kg
Bag 9 10.8kg

That's about 130kg

I have to admit today was the day where I really thought about supporting a 'yes' vote - I was done before my time, but only because I took out my own bags and was able to split the bags right down without much dead walking.

That much weight is ridiculous. My walk is reasonably heavy but nothing out of the ordinary - I even had quite a few gaps in the frame, but the weight of the magazines we are getting on a regular basis is stupid.

HCT's are not the answer, dragging one of those around would extend my delivery time to god knows what.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 02 Oct 2009, 17:27

OnAFlyer wrote: Bag 1 18.4kg
Bag 2 17.8kg
Bag 3 12.2kg
Bag 4 21.8kg (4 hand sized bundles, 1 tiny packet, no D2D's at all )
Bag 5 14.2kg
Bag 6 11kg
Bag 7 13.2kg
Bag 8 12.2kg
Bag 9 10.8kg

As a H&S nut can I point out that even following RMs guidelines

Bag 1 Overweight 2.4kg
Bag 2 Overweight 1.8kg
Bag 3 Overweight 1.2kg
Bag 4 Overweight 10.8kg

Bag 5 Overweight 3.2kg
Bag 6 Spot on
Bag 7 Overweight 2.2kg
Bag 8 Overweight 1.2kg
Bag 9 Spot on

The only reason I point this out is that a girl at our DO fell over and hurt her leg - they weighed the bag she was carrying and the AOD was not waived and she was issued a stage. Also repeated instances of going over the weight limits may cause muscular skeletal problems later in life and may reduce your working life. But if your aware it is ultimately your choice.

morleyposty · Post by **morleyposty** » 02 Oct 2009, 17:37

OnAFlyer wrote:Unbelievably heavy today. Hardly any walksort but cages and cages full of magazines - lots of them Mailsort but they put the lot on.

The Union rep was writing down everyone's bag weights as they are arguing that collapsing should now stop (there wasn't any today anyway).

I had 9 bags, the most bundles in a bag was 4. I couldn't believe some of my bag weights tbh, i'd split the walk down so no bag took me more than 30 mins, some were 15 min bags (a couple I split down further when I got to the walk)

Bag 1 18.4kg
Bag 2 17.8kg
Bag 3 12.2kg
Bag 4 21.8kg (4 hand sized bundles, 1 tiny packet, no D2D's at all )
Bag 5 14.2kg
Bag 6 11kg
Bag 7 13.2kg
Bag 8 12.2kg
Bag 9 10.8kg

That's about 130kg

I have to admit today was the day where I really thought about supporting a 'yes' vote - I was done before my time, but only because I took out my own bags and was able to split the bags right down without much dead walking.

That much weight is ridiculous. My walk is reasonably heavy but nothing out of the ordinary - I even had quite a few gaps in the frame, but the weight of the magazines we are getting on a regular basis is stupid.

HCT's are not the answer, dragging one of those around would extend my delivery time to god knows what.

these holiday/fashion/diy catalogues are a misery to all.
to start with they weight abit and sometimes it's a difficulty pushing them threw the letter box
grrrrrrrrrrr

Pat Ostman · Post by **Pat Ostman** » 02 Oct 2009, 17:39

How on gods earth can you have a bag weighing in at over 21KG with only three 'hand sized' bundles and a small packet! Is this a wind up?

dohnut · Post by **dohnut** » 02 Oct 2009, 18:14

IPS wrote:How on gods earth can you have a bag weighing in at over 21KG with only three 'hand sized' bundles and a small packet! Is this a wind up?

Thats getting to 50 pounds lol, 4 small bundles ?. Me thinks there is something wrong with your scales.

delboy · Post by **delboy** » 02 Oct 2009, 19:04

Yeah all the weights seems to be coming from the flats never had as many magazines and catalogues as i have had this week...Madness

OnAFlyer · Post by **OnAFlyer** » 02 Oct 2009, 19:06

IPS wrote:How on gods earth can you have a bag weighing in at over 21KG with only three 'hand sized' bundles and a small packet! Is this a wind up?

4 bundles - and by hand sized I mean I can just fit them in my hand - good sized but not massive 'underarmers' I see some people making

And no, it's not a wind up - I thought it was about 14kg before I put it on the scales. They were comprised almost entirely of catalogues, I only had 2 boxes of walksorted letters but had to take a runner to the ips frames to carry all the flats and magazines.

people were putting first bags on the scales and they were 20+ kg without even being rammed full.

dohnut wrote: Thats getting to 50 pounds lol, 4 small bundles ?. Me thinks there is something wrong with your scales.

The scales have my weight bang on with the ones at my gym and at home, so nothing wrong with them. And again, not small bundles but the size I can fit in my hand. I weighed my first bundle and it was 4.7kg, it took 6 minutes to deliver!

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:As a H&S nut can I point out that even following RMs guidelines

Bag 1 Overweight 2.4kg
Bag 2 Overweight 1.8kg
Bag 3 Overweight 1.2kg
Bag 4 Overweight 10.8kg
Bag 5 Overweight 3.2kg
Bag 6 Spot on
Bag 7 Overweight 2.2kg
Bag 8 Overweight 1.2kg
Bag 9 Spot on

The only reason I point this out is that a girl at our DO fell over and hurt her leg - they weighed the bag she was carrying and the AOD was not waived and she was issued a stage. Also repeated instances of going over the weight limits may cause muscular skeletal problems later in life and may reduce your working life. But if your aware it is ultimately your choice.

This is exactly what i'm pointing out. It's extremely rare for me to carry a 16kg bag, I usually split them to 10kg max. But when you have 130kg, and an 11kg bag takes 15 minutes to deliver because there's hardly anything in it other than catalogues, the job is virtually impossible to do 'by the book', unless you want to spend all day walking back to the pouch drop to collect 12-13 bags. Yeah I know I could have done that and cut off, but like I said in my post I split the bags down further as I used the car and didn't carry 21kg (sod that!)

My post was mainly to point out the fact that today has changed my views towards a 'yes' vote - if days like this become common (the increase in magazines and heavy mail in general would indicate this) there's no way the average postie can do the job properly and get finished in a reasonable time. I am damn quick on delivery and still finished early today, but I know in reality there was too much weight and too much work.

We were on ips for 2hrs 20m as well

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