royal mail christmas cards

[Pony888]

Cost-Cutting- PAH !!! just how much did it cost your company to send out all of these "Merry Christmas" cards?? - here's the maths :

a) 2001 National Statistics Office shows 24.14 million households in the UK
b) 2nd class "account" postage 25p
c) cost of production - estimate a5 gummed mailer, 25 million = 1p each

so . . . (B+C) x A = 26p x 24,140,000 = £6,276,400

SIX AN A QUARTER MILLION QUID !!!

Even if my "estimates" are 75% out, somebody somewhere has signed-off a couple of million pounds worth of wasted money, the notices are on the internet, in all of your outlets, plain to see, we dont need a "Christmas card" to tell us!!

If this is the "modernisation" and efficiency you guys are experiencing then there is no hope for you at all (which is why I fully support your position and actions). Somebody diserves the sack for this wastage.

Merry Christmas anyway!!

Peter O

[shadow]

posted all my cards today as we were told two days and we got them on sat. Hoping for an easier day tomorrow.

[dejavu]

We were getting a lot which are addressed to addresses which dont exist

[Mr Blonde]

and I thought that this was going to be a moan about having to take these pieces of s**t out to every single house today.

We were told to spread them over the week and not to claim overtime if we took them all out at once.

yea we got a week
BUT
i reckon that they gave us a week so we would still have to bloody lapse

They made us take them all AND made us lapse.

Sorry but WTF - we had one for every address so thats a 100% call rate - at best Pegasus is worked out at 89% call rate so there is no way that "where time exists within normal hours" could be applied

They always make us lapse on monday and tuesday, regardless of the traffic because they've already taken out the duties to be lapsed and they don't have the staff to cover the jobs. We get screwed over all of the time.

[Stormproof]

I got in this morning to find all these dumped on top of my frame, can't blame the guy who covered my leave as they were Mailsort. Getting pissed off with DSA stuff of odd shapes & sizes they should be of a standard size but all RM think of is the money oh and bloody shiny slippery envelopes that makes your bundles come alive

[smokerjim]

I took out all of mine today.....it was only as I was climbing into the van and mentioned it, that my driver said we'd been told we had two days ( first I feckin' heard that! ) Still, all my bags were underweight, and I didn't go over ( didn't bloody rush either, as usual ) and they're done now - light day tomorrow!

[dubdaz]

We were told by our DOM they all had to go in one hit, (it was saturday!) 100% call rate.
I finally left the office at 11 and ended up bringing back HALF my walk
Piss up and brewery spring to mind.

[lainey]

they werent mailsort they were second class were they not? dont know why they didnt make them a d2d oh i know why they would have had to pay us 1.67p and they cant do that (w*****s )

[citypostie]

We got told all of them had to go today - which really upset the office becuase it ruined what would have been one of the easiest days in months, before putting these into my frame I had lovely big gaps of 10-20 houses all over my frame meaning i would have proabably only called at about 500 of 700 houses - these gaps soon disappeared with this rubbish in em! Now reading on here that other offices have upto a week to deliver them has made me even angrier becuase to top it all off it was like a hurricane on delivery today with the wind and rain.

[Dee Plish]

and I thought that this was going to be a moan about having to take these pieces of s**t out to every single house today.

We were told to spread them over the week and not to claim overtime if we took them all out at once.

Then you're lucky. We tried to get the rep to let the DOM take them where we were going but apparently those "above him" wanted them all out today. Lying w*****s.

We were told to spread em out over 2 days. Usual management

[not me]

we got them on Saturday,got told take them for where we are going (we were rammed on Saturday as well!!!)
told they must be completed today

[Richie89]

We had today and tomorrow to deliver them. If we took them all out today we werent allowed to bok OT either

[scooby]

all week we have to take them strange how things change place to place in this job

[dejavu]

When we get stuff like this we just take it as we have to deliver them that day. We never get told anything different. If it causes us to go over our time we claim the overtime. Nothing ever gets said about that.

[Broxi51]

We got them on Saturday and were told 2 days. Saturday cost them an hours OT from most of the staff and today cost them another hours OT. They would have been better sending them out as D2D's as it would have been cheaper in our office