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sky mags ( back breakers )

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sacs r full
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sky mags ( back breakers )

Post by sacs r full »

does anyone from distribution know what the crack is with sky mags, they all came into our office yesterday giving us 2 days to deliver them. are you told to leave them in a corner to the last minute to sicken us donkeys :d'oh!
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Re: sky mags ( back breakers )

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sacs r full wrote:does anyone from distribution know what the crack is with sky mags, they all came into our office yesterday giving us 2 days to deliver them. are you told to leave them in a corner to the last minute to sicken us donkeys :d'oh!
What stream are they ie: PPI, DSA, Mailsort, etc?
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Re: sky mags ( back breakers )

Post by resperin »

mailsort - we have to deliver it today because its the last day of the month even though we usually leave it on sat
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Re: sky mags ( back breakers )

Post by REDLETTER »

Most got left as our DO doesn't take Mailsort on a Saturday. Sometimes the Managers just want an easy life in the DO on a Saturday, so they can clear off home early!

Me being the arse-licking, rent boy took all mine today!

Seriously I took them because I don't want a cr*p day on Monday.

The canny ones will say they can't do the absorbing on the Monday because it's too heavy with Sky Mags, Boo Hoo, spit the dummies out time.
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sacs r full
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Re: sky mags ( back breakers )

Post by sacs r full »

some were mailsort some 2nd class etc but its always been they have to be delivered by end of month, but people are not trying to tell us sky have just sent them out 2 days before end of month. any ideas where they have been hiding :hmmmm
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Re: sky mags ( back breakers )

Post by proper postie »

Is it not a distance thing? We got ours on Wednesday.Luckily I deliver to an absolute s**t hole so sky subscribers are not really in high abundance.
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Re: sky mags ( back breakers )

Post by daveallum »

Had our first lot last Friday (23/7/10),were told not to deliver them until Monday 26/7/10),those marked mailsort have been trickling in since Wednesday,had quite a few delivered into us today,most got left until next Monday.
sacs r full
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Re: sky mags ( back breakers )

Post by sacs r full »

oh well thought someone from distribution might have a answer, i deliver to a sh*t hole area as well but they all got flaming sky xx x x x x x
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Post by DGP1 »

My office too got a load of MS Sky mags on Friday, some duties got loads and some got nothing :crazy: and some left them until Monday and some cleared today...........I really don't care anymore about them, the MC should be sending these out with 5 days to deliver and not streaming them until they have to.
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Re: sky mags ( back breakers )

Post by shuffler3 »

REDLETTER wrote:Most got left as our DO doesn't take Mailsort on a Saturday. Sometimes the Managers just want an easy life in the DO on a Saturday, so they can clear off home early!

Me being the arse-licking, rent boy took all mine today!

Seriously I took them because I don't want a cr*p day on Monday.

The canny ones will say they can't do the absorbing on the Monday because it's too heavy with Sky Mags, Boo Hoo, spit the dummies out time.
You're the sort of person that got us in this mess.
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Post by krussel »

Have you noticed they have grown back to full oversize now. What happened to the compact size ?
Rows of houses all bearing down on me........I can feel their blue hands touching me.......All these things in all positions.........All these things will one day take control..........
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Re: sky mags ( back breakers )

Post by youwot!!!!! »

sacs r full wrote:does anyone from distribution know what the crack is with sky mags, they all came into our office yesterday giving us 2 days to deliver them. are you told to leave them in a corner to the last minute to sicken us donkeys :d'oh!

why would you think that distribution staff would hide these things in a corner?in our office they are pushed through to processing almost as soon as they arrive and arrive in delivery offices whithin 2 days so stop whining about things you know sod all about and realise we are all in the s**t together.
who the hell invests £2 billion into a servic and makes it worse?????????????
you really couldn't make it up!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: sky mags ( back breakers )

Post by mazza111 »

In our office, we sort them for surrounding offices, they didn't come in until wed/thurs this week. Which was a lot later than normal. Which meant surrounding offices got them thurs/fri to start sorting. A bit too late for delivering by end of the month imo.
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Re: sky mags ( back breakers )

Post by Caniel »

Point is they had to be sitting around somewhere, either in a distribution centre or at a Sky warehouse? I got some at the start of the week, can't remember what the were (Mailsort, 2nd class etc) but got the bulk of them for my walk on Saturday but left them till Monday like everyone else because they were Mailsort. I heard a manager tell someone they had to go Saturday but I wasn't told so Left them under my frame covered by some other Mailsort.

Four cassettes tho of the s**t is a bit much for a Saturday imo.
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Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

Sky Mags have been weird this week - had some every day but not walksorted as they normally are - they all came loose.
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