"Quick question"

[fishtank]

I'm talking short term while he is waiting for the 'tools of the job'.

That's the point POSTMAN,what is the short term?
6 months,1 year,3 years.....never. Remember Leighton's tools for the job promise.
The goal posts are being moved on a daily basis.....half-assed D2D guidelines,no vans,no trolleys,no georoute revisions and we are getting screwed over,
Meanwhile if this guy wants his 1 in 4 saturdays off he will no doubt have to extend his delivery without the tools for the job to protect his long term health.
I think the only "tools" for this job are us.

[POSTMAN]

I'm talking short term while he is waiting for the 'tools of the job'.

That's the point POSTMAN,what is the short term?
6 months,1 year,3 years.....never. Remember Leighton's tools for the job promise.
The goal posts are being moved on a daily basis.....half-assed D2D guidelines,no vans,no trolleys,no georoute revisions and we are getting screwed over,
Meanwhile if this guy wants his 1 in 4 saturdays off he will no doubt have to extend his delivery without the tools for the job to protect his long term health.
I think the only "tools" for this job are us.

They are not going to leave offices without a revision,yes it may take 3 years but everyone will have one.
You will argue they wont,then good for them possibly,no cuts.
If RM come in for cuts without a proper revision,then i will refer them to my growing the you know what speech.

[Big Daz]

I would like to see figures for deivery duties showing how many are walking and how many are Cycle and how many are HCT.

My D.O has one HCT delivery duty to deliver the town centre, urban delivery duties are bikes and two village deliveries are bikes.

However there is a bike per OPG at my D.O, so RML could easily remove some and give to D.Os without, as a weight on del solution.

I reckon we could spare 15 to 20 bikes, by simply reverting to a bike per bike duty and a suitable number of spares.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Dingo in your opinion are delivery postmen and women taking a major pay cut the next three years?

No I dont think all postman on delivery are taking a pay cut, the figures show that the average door to door payment was £12 , yes some were above that figure and including the d2d barons but a lot were below that line. Door to Door was only paid based on contracts received and the average was 2.1 per office.

That makes an average walk using your figures 342 (based on 1.67 per item) wish I had one of the average duties mines nearly double that

Mind you it does depend on how the average was worked out, and I cant comment on that as I don't know.

Was everyone in deliveries included or just those on delivery duties.
Was everyone on delivery duties included like drivers delivering 12 (yes 12 on one duty) or those delivering D2Ds for a majority of their duty.
Were all OPGs doing delivery work included in the average, or only those claiming.

All of these would affect the figure to a greater or lesser degree and this probably explains why walking posties are aggrieved and nearly everyone else happy enough.

BTW this is not a post aimed at anyone just one that tries to put forward a delivering posties point of view.