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Becoming a driver..!
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PostieWithTheMostie!
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Becoming a driver..!
How long does it take to be able to drive for RM? 6 months or a year??
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TeeferTiger
- EX ROYAL MAIL
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Re: Becoming a driver..!
If you've passed your test and have a full UK licence, you can drive for RM!?
Does this rag smell of chloroform to you?
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baldrick
- EX ROYAL MAIL
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Re: Becoming a driver..!
Next day when they bring in CDVs and Park & Loop ?PostieWithTheMostie! wrote: How long does it take to be able to drive for RM? 6 months or a year??
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delboy
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Re: Becoming a driver..!
just ask your lino and the AA will take you out for 30 mins and then you will be come like postman pat in his red van..
They call it the changeover.
They call it the changeover.
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PostieWithTheMostie!
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Re: Becoming a driver..!
I've had it for 2 months now, Full UK Licence. So thats means i should be able to get trained up ASAP then? or play the waiting game with the DIM.
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POSTMAN
- SITE ADMINISTRATOR
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Re: Becoming a driver..!
It's your choice,are you short of drivers,one guy at my place passed his test and within a week had a changeover.PostieWithTheMostie! wrote: I've had it for 2 months now, Full UK Licence. So thats means i should be able to get trained up ASAP then? or play the waiting game with the DIM.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Doone
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- Joined: 03 Jun 2009, 18:14
- Gender: Male
Re: Becoming a driver..!
You can drive as much as you like when the park and loop comes in,,,,,,,no need for drivers as they are today 
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Stormproof
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Re: Becoming a driver..!
We had someone do changeover at my office last week.......he failed 
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets
Illegitimi non carborundum
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets
Illegitimi non carborundum
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TrueBlueTerrier
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Re: Becoming a driver..!
Stormproof wrote:We had someone do changeover at my office last week.......he failed
Got a bit close at a collection did he.
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DGP1
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Re: Becoming a driver..!
OK who put the 'Keep Post Public' sticker on the postboxTrueBlueTerrier wrote:Stormproof wrote:We had someone do changeover at my office last week.......he failed
Got a bit close at a collection did he.
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k979aaa
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- Location: THE NORTH
Re: Becoming a driver..!
No he was BANG on time!.TrueBlueTerrier wrote:Stormproof wrote:We had someone do changeover at my office last week.......he failed
Got a bit close at a collection did he.
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Stormproof
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Re: Becoming a driver..!
Seeing that post box has just reminded me. At work time bullshitting this week we were told the PDA's will soon beable to scan the barcodes on the boxes.
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets
Illegitimi non carborundum
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets
Illegitimi non carborundum
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k979aaa
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Re: Becoming a driver..!
Shame it did not tell the driver where the post box was in the picture!.Stormproof wrote:Seeing that post box has just reminded me. At work time bullshitting this week we were told the PDA's will soon beable to scan the barcodes on the boxes.
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Supersonicvandriver
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- Gender: Female
Re: Becoming a driver..!
I wish i didnt drive for RM. Last month a car crashed into the side of me on delivery. i had a few weeks off with wiplash came back and today i got a warning. Told it was my fault for the blasie attitude to safety. lol The dim where i work is on a power trip.
Anyway i aint signing it as you can't appeal against it. I have been here 14yrs and the last few months under this dim has been the worst ever. I pray someone crashes into them. And they have loads of time off.
Anyway i aint signing it as you can't appeal against it. I have been here 14yrs and the last few months under this dim has been the worst ever. I pray someone crashes into them. And they have loads of time off.
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k979aaa
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- Location: THE NORTH
Re: Becoming a driver..!
See your union rep get a claim started against the driver and a grievance against the dim and take it from there good luck and all the best!.Supersonicvandriver wrote:I wish i didnt drive for RM. Last month a car crashed into the side of me on delivery. i had a few weeks off with wiplash came back and today i got a warning. Told it was my fault for the blasie attitude to safety. lol The dim where i work is on a power trip.
Anyway i aint signing it as you can't appeal against it. I have been here 14yrs and the last few months under this dim has been the worst ever. I pray someone crashes into them. And they have loads of time off.