Can you complete your duty within your contracted Hours

[POSTMAN]

47 fecking votes so far and so quick but well over half of those voteing don't post.
Come on you lurkers,spread some s**t around the forums!

[patio1]

all this can you or can,t you. what a load of s..t. where i work our deliveries are nearly double the ones to an office 20 miles up the road (i know because i was loaned out to there for 3 months and thought i was on holiday) i am not kidding you i know people who do deliveries there and are finished and are in our office doing another delivery by 10.30 and remember we are half hour drive down the road.
what my point is. WILL THE SYSTEM EVER BE FAIR . I THINK NOT. HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN ? IT MAKES ME WANNA SCREAM SOMETIMES.
oh and i,m not worryin what others our doing i am just stating the facts about fairness. there will never be any .

[Postal1]

Our office is a complete mess. Some duties i can get done up to 45mins early mon-tues-sat. Some duties are totally insane with loads of large packets, specials, tracked and more mail.
Big problem i see is all the mail isn't sorted within the 1hr 45mins first thing. So we have to come back to do more inward and keep forwards and backwards getting mail.

[robbertwhitton]

Following a topic about part timers not helping with sorting missorts, I wonder what YOUR HONEST answers are. Comments not required

start at 5.30 commence Royal delivery at 8 and back by 12.30, 280 points of delivery and back within scheduled time athough with revision due and cost cutting being implemented in our office not sure for how long. After 29 years with Royal Mail it would of been nice for my customers to have been advised of the latest starts. Frequently being spied on by Royal Mail security team re - safeguarding of mail on delivery but with a relcuntance of the round to be tested to ensure enough duty time for the round to be completed properly.

[islfor]

Regurarly going over or cutting off, management have long last admitted deliveries too big and need re-investing more hours in !!
Wait for it.............They want hours saved indoors to pay for it as Idiot Work Tool (IWT) says there are loads of hours indoors to save ?????
Its just like me going into Tesco to buy Mars bar for 50p and seeing they have an offer on them buy 2 for £1.20 !!!!

[feduppostie]

this question is a bit too basic really

to get an accurate answer you would need to know what duties the p/t f/t are covering

in our office p/t are sometimes brought in early to cover f/t duties - however they are brought in at 7.30 and told their contracted hours start then ie 7.30 - 12.30 so can they complete in that time - no they have to book overtime

even if they have finished at 14.30 and booked 2 hrs o/t RM have still saved 1 hour on the 8 hour duty

the sorting is absorbed by the other f/t

at the moment I can complete most days ( i am f/t) but it is summer and I truly believe this Xmas is gonna be on of the worst ever - if I am going to time now god help me once the mail kicks in again

I do wish people would stop this f/t p/t who does more stuff

we should be pulling together on this not creating divisions

[Straight4ward]

Now we are into September, would anyone that voted earlier that they were completing within their hours change their vote?

Mail volumes have ramped up again following the summer lull.

I expect to regularly go over my time now until - - - well - - next summer probably. Oh no, hold on we are due Winged Horse and Delivery Methods revision next year, so forget being within time during the summer.

[taurus88]

I finish about five minutes before time (including break) on the worse days, and half an hour before time on the lighter days. Saturday's even less. But on a particularly bad day, I sometimes go a quarter of an hour over. I could cut off, but my last bag is an up and down street and I have to walk back along it to get back, so there isn't much point if I'm on my last bundle. The other walks in the office I can generally do quicker than mine. There's a series of walks in a little town just near the office that I can get done in 2.5 hours even on a bad day . I hear rumours of some folk getting done at 11am most days. Whether they're true or not, I don't know. I personally dawdle a bit, so I can see how it's possible they get done at this time on certain walks, especially when they know their walk intimately.

[postmanrob]

Part timer on a full time round from day one, so no i can't!!