A lot of people are saying having a van will take the weight off shoulders but how true will that be? My bike takes most of the weight of 1st pouch as I go round and also anything else thereafter if it's convienient. Some rounds you can use the bike to carry every heavy bag.
With a van and 2 people delivering off from it you will have to be perfectly matched in speed to both get back to the van at same time. That's unlikely so I can see some guys taking heavy bags and using the van like a bag drop so as not to have to wait for other guy. Result is bags carried weigh exactly the same.
Also if you imagine a road of 50 houses on eachside. Lets say one day the guy doing evens has 5 recordeds and the guy doing odds has none. The odds guy will be back at the van waiting for 5mins for Mr evens to get the signatures for that day. So the time taken to actually deliver to the street will (proportionately) 5mins longer than had one guy done it. Extend this over the 2 duties done by 2 posties and even with time to bag drops removed you might still be taking longer than the current method because of dead time waiting at the van.
Being in London with resisdents parking,who pays the cost of parking,because I for one will not believe the crap of they never ticket R.M vans.Our ncp wardens are quite evil when it comes to even parking a inch over the white line of a bay.
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The Peugeot 107s and the Citreon C1s are the same car as the Toyota Aygo................you know the ones with the sticky accelerator maybe they think the duty could be done faster
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So,they gonna recall those 10,000 in that field then
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It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been. My BFF Clash The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
Fluke wrote:If your forced into driving for Royal Mail and happen to have an accident whilst driving for them, do you have to declare that accident to your own insurance company when you renew your private car insurance? Remember they ask the question "have you had an acident within the past 5 years"?
My own vehicle is mainly used at weekends nand I've never used it for work, so due to me only driving for a couple of hours, my chances of being involved in an accident are low and as a driving licence was not a requirement when I joined RM. Why the FECK should I drive for RM and run the risk of increasing my own insurance premiums for their bennfit?
"My own vehicle is mainly used at weekends" - surely you're not one of those Sunday Afternoon Drivers cautiously ambling along at just over half the speed limit on their weekly outing.
No, you asume wrong matey. I'm one of those drivers that uses his car only when he needs to, with the odd track day thrown in.
All this talk about weight off the shoulders and swings and roundabouts. Our office of 200 people use pushbikes or HCT's and if the van is being used for park and loop, where you then walk round pushing/dragging a trolley. The only bennifit I see is a saving on the 15 min journey out to the first point of delivery and the journey back. The rest of the savings are going to be in RM's favour, my guess is that you will be taking 2 1/2 walks out along with firms and large packets.
So again. Why the FECK should I drive for RM and run the risk of increasing my own insurance premiums for their bennfit?
The Peugeot 107s and the Citreon C1s are the same car as the Toyota Aygo................you know the ones with the sticky accelerator maybe they think the duty could be done faster
That aint a 107,its a 207.Got both makes of car sitting right outside my house.Next door works for Peugeot.
bexhil palace wrote:What will happen in London if your driving duty takes you in the realms of the Congestion charge?
Good point.I did hear Ken Livingstone say on the radio sometime ago that when the charge was brought in he did offwer R.M a discount for staff,but R.M had to make up the difference.Needless to say it never happened and I have to park outside the zone and continue by bus,unless Im on my motorbike.What happens with offical vans/trucks/cars is another thing.
maybe they think the duty could be done faster 
Our office of 200 people use pushbikes or HCT's and if the van is being used for park and loop, where you then walk round pushing/dragging a trolley. The only bennifit I see is a saving on the 15 min journey out to the first point of delivery and the journey back. The rest of the savings are going to be in RM's favour, my guess is that you will be taking 2 1/2 walks out along with firms and large packets.