Van duties

[POSTMAN]

We had a meeting this morning with one of our area reps from South East London, and he was telling us we will be going into this van sharing after xmas.

Silly question,but are you sure?

[wolfie citizen smith]

not going through every thread, however I have been made to interpret that Royal Mail have in princable agreed with the CWU to ban all cars being used on delivery ( about time too do I hear) however it seems that the sly little so un sos have used this pressure from the CWU and believe that if the business stop the use of bicycles as well then the dreaded VAN SHARING will be interduced after christmas. Once the walk sequencing machines start working fully then the hour+ sorting is no longer required taking the delivery to 4.5 hours.
Now as this is not my field but someone my be able to answer..I was always told that Health & Safety say that 3.5 hours delivery is set in stone due to fatigue and stuff (like I say not my field) so without Royal Mail reducing hours worked how do we continue with a 40 (48 whoever signed) hour week

[shrew1]

Once the walk sequencing machines start working fully then the hour+ sorting is no longer required taking the delivery to 4.5 hours.

As someone who is already prepping walk sequenced mail, i have to say it's debatable whether it saves you 20mins let alone an hour. If you already know your walk pretty well it isn't that much faster than normal prepping. plus only mail that is currently code sorted will be sequenced. you still get loads of un sequenced letters and flats. It obviously helps someone who is doing the walk blind more than a regular postie.

[2old4this]

We had a meeting this morning with one of our area reps from South East London, and he was telling us we will be going into this van sharing after xmas.

Silly question,but are you sure?

Yes I am sure postman. The area rep told us he thought it was a good thing and that we would be going into it after xmas,

[2old4this]

We had a meeting this morning with one of our area reps from South East London, and he was telling us we will be going into this van sharing after xmas.

Silly question,but are you sure?

I have sent you a {PM} POSTMAN but I dont know if I did it right.

[POSTMAN]

We had a meeting this morning with one of our area reps from South East London, and he was telling us we will be going into this van sharing after xmas.

Silly question,but are you sure?

I have sent you a {PM} POSTMAN but I dont know if I did it right.

Got it,suprised though.

[2old4this]

We had a meeting this morning with one of our area reps from South East London, and he was telling us we will be going into this van sharing after xmas.

Silly question,but are you sure?

I have sent you a {PM} POSTMAN but I dont know if I did it right.

Got it,suprised though.

Not as suprised as us Postman. I just cant see how this won't cost us jobs from our office.

[POSTMAN]

Jobs are bound to go,just off the top of my head,if they bring it into my office and it goes the way they say on here,i reckon we could lose poss 3 drives and maybe a couple of walks if not more!

[2old4this]

Jobs are bound to go,just off the top of my head,if they bring it into my office and it goes the way they say on here,i reckon we could lose poss 3 drives and maybe a couple of walks if not more!

Talking amongs't ourselves we can see they will take the firms vans and maybe 1 walk.

[uprising95]

van share is good
providing you get someone that works a similar way you do
if not then its all stress

[BELIAL]

Once the walk sequencing machines start working fully then the hour+ sorting is no longer required taking the delivery to 4.5 hours.

As someone who is already prepping walk sequenced mail, i have to say it's debatable whether it saves you 20mins let alone an hour. If you already know your walk pretty well it isn't that much faster than normal prepping. plus only mail that is currently code sorted will be sequenced. you still get loads of un sequenced letters and flats. It obviously helps someone who is doing the walk blind more than a regular postie.

That is exactly my experience of sequenced mail. Minimal prep time saving with the added pain of increased IPS, How about you?
Tell you something for nothing, if the CWU agrees to longer delivery spans it will hit the record for the fastest disappearing union in history.

[upmyroad]

Once the walk sequencing machines start working fully then the hour+ sorting is no longer required taking the delivery to 4.5 hours.

As someone who is already prepping walk sequenced mail, i have to say it's debatable whether it saves you 20mins let alone an hour. If you already know your walk pretty well it isn't that much faster than normal prepping. plus only mail that is currently code sorted will be sequenced. you still get loads of un sequenced letters and flats. It obviously helps someone who is doing the walk blind more than a regular postie.

That is exactly my experience of sequenced mail. Minimal prep time saving with the added pain of increased IPS, How about you?
Tell you something for nothing, if the CWU agrees to longer delivery spans it will hit the record for the fastest disappearing union in history.

The CWU will do what ever need's doing to make sure they keep the sub's rolling in. If that mean's you doing back braking walk's then so be it.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Perhpas we should change our name from CWU back to UCW just to remind them of their reason-de-taire

[BELIAL]

The CWU will do what ever need's doing to make sure they keep the sub's rolling in. If that mean's you doing back braking walk's then so be it.

I think I agree with the sentiment behind that ,but that statement makes little sense.
If the leadership are only willing to negotiate a slowdown in the managed decline of our terms then in broad terms the membership will come to regard the union as ineffective and irrelevant , bye bye subs.
Maybe they would get more support if they aimed for concrete improvements like the 35hr week and 10% on the basic wage. I'd strike for months for that, much better to go on the offensive instead of all this defensive on the back foot rearguard action