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[fishtank]

3-4PM working of a saturday isnt written in stone.

If you work long and shorts from what ive read theres is no reason why you can not use those short times for saturday working .

If this is to be the case in our office were off the road for 13.20,its still crap alos if your office is on 3.5hr del spans these need not change either but you must be made aware that vacancies would then be recruited on solely a p/t basis,from what i can gather maybe wrong.

Planning for Saturdays should be the same as a normal working day and ensure that all due mail is delivered in line with the work-plan. Units will still receive sequenced mail on a Saturday. Local solutions to achieving an early Saturday finish (for instance by an earlier start) should not compromise the ability to achieve work-plan.

I don't think a shorter saturday would be a goer.
Maybe an earlier start but that will depend when your mail arrives in future.

[happy hibee]

thats why your rep should be involved all the way through changes, on the downside new machinery later arrivals is the long term plan so get decent duty structures in place asap

[k979aaa]

3-4PM working of a saturday isnt written in stone.

If you work long and shorts from what ive read theres is no reason why you can not use those short times for saturday working .

If this is to be the case in our office were off the road for 13.20,its still crap alos if your office is on 3.5hr del spans these need not change either but you must be made aware that vacancies would then be recruited on solely a p/t basis,from what i can gather maybe wrong.

It is all to do with WALK SEQUENCING and the fact that most mail will be delivered on a Saturday as that is what the customer wants so it is viewed by the happy householder on their day off!.

[DUNDEEPOSTIE]

my team are crap and i hate having every bloody saturday off to go and watch them

My team are in the relegation zone at the bottom of Division 3*. I'm glad I can't go and watch them any more.
And I won't have to go shopping on Saturday afternoon either.
It's a win-win situation. And I'll get £20.60 on top of that. Win-win-win.
(*Now called League 1 or something new-fangled.)

I'm a Shedboy (Dundee United) for those who don't know. Our office is denying all leave requests for the Scottish Cup Final on May 15th, in Glasgow, and it is only through the good nature of A Celtic and Dundee supporter assisting me on that day, that I have any chance of making the final. I fear due to the longer Saturdays that are looming large on the horizon, I may not make it back to any future finals (unless it's my day off!).

I also recived my season ticket renewal package brochure the other day! Guess I wont be needing that either! Professional football teams may not be the only ones to lose in this situation. I know a few guys who play on a Saturday afternoon in the local junior leagues.

Now I know people will say, other members of the public work on a Saturday, and this is true. But who on earth is going to be looking for the postie at 3pm on a Saturday! It appears obvious to me that by extending a Saturday and making it a "normal working day" the company has lost it's sense of direction, and possibly the trust of its customers.