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Expecting the impossible

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Re: Expecting the impossible

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we never had any driver only rule for tracked items?
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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custard wrote:we never had any driver only rule for tracked items?

Thats the rule for my D.O simply because they have to be scanned via a PDA, which then gets the delivery status of the item into the system quicker which is part of RM sales pitch I belive.
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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Big Daz wrote:
custard wrote:we never had any driver only rule for tracked items?

Thats the rule for my D.O simply because they have to be scanned via a PDA, which then gets the delivery status of the item into the system quicker which is part of RM sales pitch I belive.
Same with us, now, prior to this we didn't scan tracked items suitable for a walk, the park and loop, bulk and rural van drivers take all tracked items now and all are scanned every day.. Just as an aside has anybody got a shortage/excess of PDAs?
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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Big Daz wrote:
custard wrote:we never had any driver only rule for tracked items?

Thats the rule for my D.O simply because they have to be scanned via a PDA, which then gets the delivery status of the item into the system quicker which is part of RM sales pitch I belive.

they just scan em as delivered in the morning i believe :d'oh!
mind you we have a whole fleet of hire vans with no cradles for the PDA's
well done RM
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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dvbuk55 wrote:
I had to drive round another road to get to the back of the house, climb over the fence, and shin up the steel stanchion to get the sodding parcel off the roof - did I mention it was also pouring down. More haste less speed I suppose.

:funneh Lol ha ha you're lucky you're slim enough top be able to shimmy up a 'stanchion' my driver is too heavy by far. :)
Btw thanks for introducing me to a new word. Why use 'support-pole' when 'stanchion' will do!!
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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DGP1 wrote:I believe the tracked items says - Please leave out of sight and under cover (or words to that effect) so that means to me, sheds, boiler houses, porches, recycling bins (as long as they're not out for collection) and neighbours, just as long as you P739 them as to where you've left them.
Not all of them say that, the one I had recently having the instrution "Please Leave In Secure Porch" which is an impossibility. :crazy:
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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opgpat wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
I had to drive round another road to get to the back of the house, climb over the fence, and shin up the steel stanchion to get the sodding parcel off the roof - did I mention it was also pouring down. More haste less speed I suppose.

:funneh Lol ha ha you're lucky you're slim enough top be able to shimmy up a 'stanchion' my driver is too heavy by far. :)
Btw thanks for introducing me to a new word. Why use 'support-pole' when 'stanchion' will do!!
Beats Pole Dancing! :Very Happy
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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opgpat wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
I had to drive round another road to get to the back of the house, climb over the fence, and shin up the steel stanchion to get the sodding parcel off the roof - did I mention it was also pouring down. More haste less speed I suppose.

:funneh Lol ha ha you're lucky you're slim enough top be able to shimmy up a 'stanchion' my driver is too heavy by far. :)
Btw thanks for introducing me to a new word. Why use 'support-pole' when 'stanchion' will do!!
That was then! I'm not as slim now by a few stone :wink: I've always fancied pole dancing, watching not doing of course :chuckle
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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dvbuk55 wrote:
opgpat wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
I had to drive round another road to get to the back of the house, climb over the fence, and shin up the steel stanchion to get the sodding parcel off the roof - did I mention it was also pouring down. More haste less speed I suppose.

:funneh Lol ha ha you're lucky you're slim enough top be able to shimmy up a 'stanchion' my driver is too heavy by far. :)
Btw thanks for introducing me to a new word. Why use 'support-pole' when 'stanchion' will do!!
That was then! I'm not as slim now by a few stone :wink: I've always fancied pole dancing, watching not doing of course :chuckle

Poles,Russians,Latvians who cares as long as there dancing. :nana :nana :nana :nana
good times, bad times you know I've had my share
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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fishtank wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
opgpat wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
I had to drive round another road to get to the back of the house, climb over the fence, and shin up the steel stanchion to get the sodding parcel off the roof - did I mention it was also pouring down. More haste less speed I suppose.

:funneh Lol ha ha you're lucky you're slim enough top be able to shimmy up a 'stanchion' my driver is too heavy by far. :)
Btw thanks for introducing me to a new word. Why use 'support-pole' when 'stanchion' will do!!
That was then! I'm not as slim now by a few stone :wink: I've always fancied pole dancing, watching not doing of course :chuckle

Poles,Russians,Latvians who cares as long as there dancing. :nana :nana :nana :nana

:Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy I have visions of you in a Cossack hat arms folded crossed bandoliers and fishnet tights :wave
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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dvbuk55 wrote:
fishtank wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
opgpat wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
I had to drive round another road to get to the back of the house, climb over the fence, and shin up the steel stanchion to get the sodding parcel off the roof - did I mention it was also pouring down. More haste less speed I suppose.

:funneh Lol ha ha you're lucky you're slim enough top be able to shimmy up a 'stanchion' my driver is too heavy by far. :)
Btw thanks for introducing me to a new word. Why use 'support-pole' when 'stanchion' will do!!
That was then! I'm not as slim now by a few stone :wink: I've always fancied pole dancing, watching not doing of course :chuckle

Poles,Russians,Latvians who cares as long as there dancing. :nana :nana :nana :nana

:Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy I have visions of you in a Cossack hat arms folded crossed bandoliers and fishnet tights :wave
How long have you been having these visions. :chuckle :chuckle :nervous
good times, bad times you know I've had my share
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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fishtank wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
fishtank wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
opgpat wrote: :funneh Lol ha ha you're lucky you're slim enough top be able to shimmy up a 'stanchion' my driver is too heavy by far. :)
Btw thanks for introducing me to a new word. Why use 'support-pole' when 'stanchion' will do!!
That was then! I'm not as slim now by a few stone :wink: I've always fancied pole dancing, watching not doing of course :chuckle

Poles,Russians,Latvians who cares as long as there dancing. :nana :nana :nana :nana

:Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy I have visions of you in a Cossack hat arms folded crossed bandoliers and fishnet tights :wave
How long have you been having these visions. :chuckle :chuckle :nervous
As from today I am no longer taking those tablets - that vision was terrifyingly real :Very Happy
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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POSTMAN wrote:
Then the notice vanished and the driver started handing them over willy-nilly. And not just the small ones I might add.
Not sure how your drivers ar getting away with this as they have to be scanned (PDA)whether they were delivered or not.
Sometimes though you get small ones that can go through the letter box,every now and then i will scan it and give it to my walker.

I'm guessing your office must be failing with tracked big time.
What happens is, whilst still in the DO he scans the item, then slings it onto your pile of parcels for you to deliver (or not, as the case may be). Is that supposed to be how it works? :hmmmm BTW, we are in a subs office so no manager gets to see what he's doing.
Also, I remember when they first started on with these and we got told that they absolutley, categorically, MUST be delivered on the first attempt as otherwise we were contractually obliged to re-deliver the item the following day before 7AM.
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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Wiggins79 wrote:
POSTMAN wrote:
Then the notice vanished and the driver started handing them over willy-nilly. And not just the small ones I might add.
Not sure how your drivers ar getting away with this as they have to be scanned (PDA)whether they were delivered or not.
Sometimes though you get small ones that can go through the letter box,every now and then i will scan it and give it to my walker.

I'm guessing your office must be failing with tracked big time.
What happens is, whilst still in the DO he scans the item, then slings it onto your pile of parcels for you to deliver (or not, as the case may be). Is that supposed to be how it works? :hmmmm BTW, we are in a subs office so no manager gets to see what he's doing.
Also, I remember when they first started on with these and we got told that they absolutley, categorically, MUST be delivered on the first attempt as otherwise we were contractually obliged to re-deliver the item the following day before 7AM.
All tracked items are received in the DO and scanned as Ready for Delivery on the DO Indoor setting on the Locker PDA - it should then be scanned on Delivery on the PDA out on that walk - some items require a signature so how does he get round that issue?
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Re: Expecting the impossible

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Ask you managers for the tracked league tables of your area,to see how you're doing.
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