summer lapsing stays while mail volumes hit all time high

[dados]

Feck me thats bad,a new era of openness & co-operation my arse,how much sh1ttier can this job get?

[krussel]

Lapsing is a funny thing really as some days it really does not bother me as it only taking you to your proper time. Other days though it feels just like un paid overtime and I can quite resent the extra walking on top of my already long delivery and especially having to drive for 20 mins between the two as my legs stiffen up.

I felt a bit like that today when i had to drive 8.5 miles back to town and then another 2 miles out to my lapsing. What made it worse was passing my Dom as she was driving home at 12.30 pm when i had another hour to work.

[REDLETTER]

Lapsing is a funny thing really as some days it really does not bother me as it only taking you to your proper time. Other days though it feels just like un paid overtime and I can quite resent the extra walking on top of my already long delivery and especially having to drive for 20 mins between the two as my legs stiffen up.

I felt a bit like that today when i had to drive 8.5 miles back to town and then another 2 miles out to my lapsing. What made it worse was passing my Dom as she was driving home at 12.30 pm when i had another hour to work.

Why are you driving to do lapsing?, that is what RM vans are for!

[krussel]

Lapsing is a funny thing really as some days it really does not bother me as it only taking you to your proper time. Other days though it feels just like un paid overtime and I can quite resent the extra walking on top of my already long delivery and especially having to drive for 20 mins between the two as my legs stiffen up.

I felt a bit like that today when i had to drive 8.5 miles back to town and then another 2 miles out to my lapsing. What made it worse was passing my Dom as she was driving home at 12.30 pm when i had another hour to work.

Why are you driving to do lapsing?, that is what RM vans are for!

Because i am a postman driver and drive a van

[OnAFlyer]

Mail volumes at an all time high? There's been f**k all on all summer.

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Lapsing is a funny thing really as some days it really does not bother me as it only taking you to your proper time. Other days though it feels just like un paid overtime and I can quite resent the extra walking on top of my already long delivery and especially having to drive for 20 mins between the two as my legs stiffen up.

I felt a bit like that today when i had to drive 8.5 miles back to town and then another 2 miles out to my lapsing. What made it worse was passing my Dom as she was driving home at 12.30 pm when i had another hour to work.

Why are you driving to do lapsing?, that is what RM vans are for!

Because i am a postman driver and drive a van

17 minutes to drive 8.5 miles and 4 minutes to drive 2 miles total 21 minutes (based on 30 mph! ) , plus the lapsing time. You must have an easy duty to pull that in!

Did your DOM wave at you or did she suddenly shrink 2 ft into her seat and hide behind the steering wheel

[DGP1]

Mail volumes at an all time high? There's been f**k all on all summer.

Maybe in your office but not mine.

[OnAFlyer]

Mail volumes at an all time high? There's been f**k all on all summer.

Maybe in your office but not mine.

I can't remember it ever being this light, today we were waiting for more mail to come in and then were told there wasn't any! Earliest i've finished on a weekday for a long time.

And yeah I know, I should have put drawing pins in the bottom of my shoes and crawled around until my finish time.

[krussel]

Lapsing is a funny thing really as some days it really does not bother me as it only taking you to your proper time. Other days though it feels just like un paid overtime and I can quite resent the extra walking on top of my already long delivery and especially having to drive for 20 mins between the two as my legs stiffen up.

I felt a bit like that today when i had to drive 8.5 miles back to town and then another 2 miles out to my lapsing. What made it worse was passing my Dom as she was driving home at 12.30 pm when i had another hour to work.

Why are you driving to do lapsing?, that is what RM vans are for!

Because i am a postman driver and drive a van

17 minutes to drive 8.5 miles and 4 minutes to drive 2 miles total 21 minutes (based on 30 mph! ) , plus the lapsing time. You must have an easy duty to pull that in!

Did your DOM wave at you or did she suddenly shrink 2 ft into her seat and hide behind the steering wheel

Yep its 8.5 miles back to my office town but i do hit a 2 mile stretch of dual carriage way where upon if I feel bothered I can hit the 70 mph restricted top speed of the Combo and make some time. However normally I simply cruise at 50 mph in the inside lane with the radio. The lapsing varies but normally takes between 20-35 mins. On that particular day I left the office to go home at 1330 hrs (an hour after the boss) which was ten mins before my finish time.

As to having a easy duty, i dont know as i think its hard, well it is a driving delivery but not a good one really with a low seniority which can take up to 5 hours out the office. Walkers are finishing an hour quicker most days and no one wants to cover it when iam off. I am willing to work my time but would feel better about it if the managers would do the same.

As to passing my Dom she flashed her lights at me and waved as we passed. She’s been finishing before me for so long now I doubt it even crosses her mind. As the first posties return to go home as early as 11.30am I suppose she thinks she has done her days work and looks to the door herself to get out asap.

[krussel]

Mail volumes at an all time high? There's been f**k all on all summer.

Maybe in your office but not mine.

I can't remember it ever being this light, today we were waiting for more mail to come in and then were told there wasn't any! Earliest i've finished on a weekday for a long time.

And yeah I know, I should have put drawing pins in the bottom of my shoes and crawled around until my finish time.

I must admit that overall it has felt a light summer period.

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heavy at our office today.

[krussel]

I think it depends on your type of walk

For example:


Our mail has picked up in the last couple of weeks but before that it seemed lighter. One thing I ve found in this lapsing lark is that it gives you a wider prospective on the weight of mail being delivered. My own delivery contains a large proportion of big houses and wealthy people which in turn tend to get mail every day so even on a light day I will be going to most houses with at least a couple of letters.
This still takes time and I tend not to finish anymore than 20 min earlier on even the lightest days so i do not feel it is light and beneficial .
However when I was doing a few roads on a council estate in July there was one close of 20 houses which I found I was missing half the houses each day, in fact one tue’s I only went in there to 4 HOUSES. So on that score I would say its been a fairly light summer at my office.

[Caniel]

It seems light especially on a Monday and Tuesday when at my office because there really is f**k all about and when it's like that and I'm going out with 3 light bags I don't have a problem absorbing but come Wednesday onwards it's like the floodgates have opened..... Thursday I had 8 bags all full of shite catalogues etc. Lino came round to tell me what I was absorbing, I thought they was meant to ask that...seems like they just tell us and expect us to do it now .I told him that given how much I had it was likely I would be struggling to complete on time let alone absorb but he didn't care so I agreed to try anyway and ended up bringing it back.

[BELIAL]

Mail volumes at an all time high? There's been f**k all on all summer.

Maybe in your office but not mine.

I can't remember it ever being this light, today we were waiting for more mail to come in and then were told there wasn't any! Earliest i've finished on a weekday for a long time.

And yeah I know, I should have put drawing pins in the bottom of my shoes and crawled around until my finish time.

Be easier to just refuse your bonus, or volunteer to take out some lapsing

[OnAFlyer]

Mail volumes at an all time high? There's been f**k all on all summer.

Maybe in your office but not mine.

I can't remember it ever being this light, today we were waiting for more mail to come in and then were told there wasn't any! Earliest i've finished on a weekday for a long time.

And yeah I know, I should have put drawing pins in the bottom of my shoes and crawled around until my finish time.

Be easier to just refuse your bonus, or volunteer to take out some lapsing

Bonus? How can I refuse f*ck all?

And the time included my lapsing.

Krussel hit the nail on the head about mail volumes in his post above - I deliver to a grotty council estate and on a light day I doubt I have a 50% call rate. I've had 2 packet bags 5 or 6 times in 13 years, and most of the 150+ walks in our office cover the same type of area.

I've seen the proposed new walks for our CDV revision and they're pretty good tbh, i've been to other offices in the past that cover private estates with lots of doctors/professionals and the amount of mail they get is huge compared to us.