What HAVEN'T they agreed so far?

[play365]

I understand about workload in the office. Although I am confused about taking out overweight bags, there are clear rules set down around this, the vast majority of our walks are delivered by trolly's, but the answer to overweight bags is to ask for bag drops, if managers are not up for this then bring back the work!

The new idea from RM is these small vans and they are saying that we will all be sharing these for walks that are more than a mile away, we are finding people are not keen on the idea of them as they dont like working with others. (truth be told it is because then therir speed is dictated to by the strongest charecter in the pair)But we are going to struggle to argue that our deliveries are too heavy when we are being offered vans to assist us.

What worries me about these vans is that this is a way of removing drives as the guys in the van's will be expected to take out all packets regardless of size and the vans will result in the removal of the current system of a walking postman taking no more than 8 special deliveries for security reasons.

Thats why the independent review of workloads was so important for a lot of members on strike.I wish the truth/bingo etc would give us some details on that section of the proposed agreement.

As for park and loop,we got it in our office,i havnt delivered on the park and loop duties but the way they are in our office its a kinda 'by any means possible' attitude to delivering mail.There seems to be no set way of doing it.The manager keeps saying they work and some staff dont mind them(they also dont mind doorstepping and taking shortcuts etc.) there are others that choose to come in 50 mins early rather than cut off and stand up to management.

We got a very high turnout in the strike,but left to our own devices without a national agreement the staff in my office are champions at cutting their own throat.We tried to encourage them to do the job properly after the last revision but within days its back to normal-coming in early/not weighing their bags/cars on delivery etc the finishing early culture is so strong that even after considerable increases in workloads and even some of them admitting 'i shouldnt come in early,im only making it worse! sure as hell they are at it again the next day,incredif**kingbubble!!
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Despite the multi post I agree totally with what your saying !! it's the same in our office

[postmanx]

Agree!!!!

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This is like Groundhog Day.

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This is like Groundhog Day

[martinapsid]

all you say is right some of the numbnuts in my office are like race horses i took one on training the other day said you start there pointing too the first house
off he went next thing i know hes jumping walls .hedges gates when iasked what the hell he was doing he that how the other postie told him to do it the one who who told to do that way is the pain in the back side about his rights i give up!!!!