How much mail did you bring back today ?

[mclovin]

None, but then the majority of the office was gone by 9.10, and usually thats the case.

[clashcityrocker]

I thought you were supposed to inform your manager before leaving the office - so you don't take it instead of bringing it back.
How do you take 4/5 bags of mail back?

Depends on 2 things:

1. Local agreements and arrangements.

2. That nothing went wrong on delivery (such as late replenishment, late conveyance, accident, incident etc).

There is a section in the integrity of mail stuff that deals with being unable to complete once delivery has commenced.

Obviously if there is a problem whilst out on delivery you can phone and ask for guidance, if you originally thought you were going to complete but now don't think you can.
But the original post talks of first letter at 12 and cut off at 2.
Obviously they knew when they left the office they were not going to complete. So why take all those bags out and bring them back?
And how do you carry 40-50kg of mail back?

[fishtank]

I agree with CCR.
You shouldn't take out what you don't PLAN to deliver.

[johnnyp]

Nothing,i finished my duty with 15 minutes to spare

[POSTMAN]

I thought that too, I was told if you take it out you deliver it or it's classed as wilful delay.

Bullshit,you've been on the site long enough,surely (I did not call you Shirley) you know that's bollox.

[gb93]

Correct procedure is to leave it in the office before you leave.
But you have got to have "the watnots" to tell your Dom

[POSTMAN]

Correct procedure is to leave it in the office before you leave.
But you have got to have "the watnots" to tell your Dom

The correct procedure is NOT to leave it in the office,whatnots or not.
Saying that it seems to be down to if the screw got a screw the night before.
Some tell you to leave it,some tell you to take it all out and do what you can,which is what we do at our place.

[fishtank]

Some tell you to leave it,some tell you to take it all out and do what you can,which is what we do at our place.

What do your walking men do?
How do they bring 2 bags of mail back?
Some of our guys are accelerated up to 10 miles from the office...they ain't bringing it back.

[POSTMAN]

Some tell you to leave it,some tell you to take it all out and do what you can,which is what we do at our place.

What do your walking men do?
How do they bring 2 bags of mail back?
Some of our guys are accelerated up to 10 miles from the office...they ain't bringing it back.

Pouch boxes.Drivers collects the s**t in the morning when they go out to do their reg/tracked ect...

[POSTMAN]

Oh and forgot to mention,only the non car users cut off,the car users seem to do it fine.

[SF]

How do you know what you'll have time to do before you go out? I always take it all, inform my manager before that I may have to cut off depending on time, then usually ring them towards the end of my round and let them know if there's any I don't have time to deliver.

If I tell them I can only do so much before I leave the office, things might go smoother than I thought and I may have time to do another few bundles. Not possible if I haven't brought all the bundles out with me is it? On the contrary I might have told him I can do x amount but may not even have time to complete what I said I could do.

You never know how much you can deliver until you get out on the actual delivery. So you have no idea how much you can deliver. All you know is what time you are due to finish work regardless of whether all the mail is delivered.

[fishtank]

Pouch boxes.Drivers collects the s**t in the morning when they go out to do their reg/tracked ect...

You must work in a nice area.
If the kids around here got wind of that there wouldn't be much to collect in the morning.

[pyphon]

none, because i''m not slow or lazy

or there were no operational issues at your DO, there was at mine yesterday glad it was my day off.

But of course perhaps you were just trying to wind people up.

of course not

[lewesspudgun]

I thought you were supposed to inform your manager before leaving the office - so you don't take it instead of bringing it back.
How do you take 4/5 bags of mail back?

you inform your manager, before leaving the office,that due to mail volumes and lack of bodies on inward sorting, caused by part time staff not having to sort, and full time staff having to double prep the part timers rounds as well as the lapsed duties and that by the time you get to your first del point it will be about 12 o clock, leaving you 2 hours to complete a 4 hour delivery and you wont be working over your time. There may be a problem completing your duty. (of course the manager already knows this he is the manager but you still have to do it) he will not tell you to leave some behind as there is no one else to deliver it you might have to take it out the next day. Having done all the right things I drive off (in my RM Combo) and return 10mins before my finishing time.

[Eric Cantona]

Had a really handy day today finished at 11 30 went to the bookies put my bets on then back to the office at 12 30 with 10 minutes of my shift left, only downfall was I done my absorption which is a pain.