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Easiet day ever!

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Bluebird
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Re: Easiet day ever!

Post by Bluebird »

montriff wrote:Loads of sky mags and catalogues ,but not much else ,plus hardly any packets for the last two days :dance
Probably because they are being shipped to the outhouses :evil/mad
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Re: Easiet day ever!

Post by treadhead »

Had 2 bags today lightest friday for ages, Hope its not to heavy for the erics tommorow :left:
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Re: Easiet day ever!

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There was virtually no packets (only half a bag as opposed to the normal 3) and the firms delivery was light but the rest of it was really bad, I took out about the same as Monday, but more than Tuesday, slightly less than yesterday :Very Happy BTW the managers had all gone home by the time I arrived back at the office :roll:
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Re: Easiet day ever!

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I would say the equvilent of a heavy(ish) Tuesday.
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Re: Easiet day ever!

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we more or less just had sky mags to deliver today, and I just used the day to do somerfield d2d's
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Re: Easiet day ever!

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i had 4 light bags was well ahead till i got to a school to pick up 3rd bag to find it locked up with my bag inside,there on half term but have been open all week and head master told me he'd be there all day today lying git.he'd fooked off home early, phoned my line maneger who got in touch with care taker who came and unlocked school for me (f***ing jobsworth) so all that well set me back, got done at normal time. :arrrghhh
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Re: Easiet day ever!

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pirate wrote:i had 4 light bags was well ahead till i got to a school to pick up 3rd bag to find it locked up with my bag inside,there on half term but have been open all week and head master told me he'd be there all day today lying git.he'd fooked off home early, phoned my line maneger who got in touch with care taker who came and unlocked school for me (f***ing jobsworth) so all that well set me back, got done at normal time. :arrrghhh
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Re: Easiet day ever!

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Just in case any managers,journalists or members of the public are reading this thread;

Today was in no way affiliated with any other friday. :chuckle :chuckle
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Re: Easiet day ever!

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Were'nt that easy for me today 2 trays and 6 bags, it was'nt too bad on the packets/parcels tho :hmmmm
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Darren Bent
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Re: Easiet day ever!

Post by Darren Bent »

Easier day (about 2 bundles) ever but I have to deliver door 2 door to every house and still get it done under 3 hours.

Normally I get 5/6 bags
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Re: Easiet day ever!

Post by smokerjim »

tragictramp wrote:we had no coded mail, but loadsa flats and had to take all the sky mags in 1 hit, i had about 3 packets for the whole delivery tho lol, i finished half hr earlier than normal.
Fairly similar for me today - Sky mags ( MS2 & MS3 ) through the week, and not many packets, but silly amounts of flats and catalogues through the week have kept the weight above average most days......I doubt any screws will miss the chance to keep it up on Monday :roll:
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tomanysteps
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Re: Easiet day ever!

Post by tomanysteps »

it was light 4 bags of mail and more packets than normal,but got one of those walks that tend to take the same time if its light or heavy. :crazy:
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Re: Easiet day ever!

Post by pinstripe »

smokerjim wrote:
tragictramp wrote:we had no coded mail, but loadsa flats and had to take all the sky mags in 1 hit, i had about 3 packets for the whole delivery tho lol, i finished half hr earlier than normal.
Fairly similar for me today - Sky mags ( MS2 & MS3 ) through the week, and not many packets, but silly amounts of flats and catalogues through the week have kept the weight above average most days......I doubt any screws will miss the chance to keep it up on Monday :roll:

We're quite close to you SJ and we had the same first thing, nothing except sky mags and magazines etc. Then the lorry turned up 45 minutes late at 0745 and WE WERE BLOODY SLAUGHTERED! DOM said everything had to go as it was a normal day, fair enough, but do they really think they need to keep giving us reasons to strike. (Before the trolls start, most times we can usually work out a compromise and spread the workload over 2 days, avoiding overtime payments or cut-offs)
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Re: Easiet day ever!

Post by Postiebear »

I had my sky mags to do with about 70 letters, no packets.

My day of on monday :dance
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Re: Easiet day ever!

Post by Tired Old Git »

yesterday was good for me :dance hardly any mail for a nice change :Very Happy

but like a few others DOM made us flex any OT jobs :sad: still done for 11am though :nana