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PACKET BACKLOG

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Steviea34
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PACKET BACKLOG

Post by Steviea34 »

Well boys & Girls,
seems some offices are struggling to clear due to no actual pkt duty!!!

I know of at least 3 offices (30 - 40 dels at each) with a combined backlog of approx 500 pkts

These offices are located in the N.E region( south end)

What i would like to know is - is this a one off in this area.

If it is widespread, does your DOM do all he can to clear them everyday?
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No, not quite there yet, but cannot be too far off. :Very Happy
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Post by TeeferTiger »

They're the first thing to get lapsed if there's a round that needs cover.

The excuse of "all the letters count as one item so there's more items need delivering on the round, than in the parcels".

OK.

But if I was a customer waiting for my post, I know I'd rather receive a parcel I have ordered, and paid good money for, than some shite junk mail that'll just got straight in the bin.
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Post by kimski1976 »

you get fined for delay of mail. you dont with packets. thats why managers dont give a toss about packets. thats why when a driver is off sick, they share the duty between the other drivers. if a postie is off, they get the drivers to do the walking and leave the packets. whenever we clear packets, there is an immediate backlog cause of something.

they took a van off us because they said we was only doing 20 miles a day in it LOL. that was 4 weeks ago. so, 4 weeks of packets in 2 cages. :( need a van.
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Yes,our growth marked,the saviour of the business,is being shat on!
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no backlog in ts12 or ts13
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Post by Caniel »

They lapse packets at my office. Which means I get moaned at by the poor sod who's taken the day off work to wait in for a packet that he asked to be redelivered but hasn't come since it's buried in a skip in the office somewhere.... :hmmmm
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Caniel wrote:They lapse packets at my office. Which means I get moaned at by the poor sod who's taken the day off work to wait in for a packet that he asked to be redelivered but hasn't come since it's buried in a skip in the office somewhere.... :hmmmm
They should be seperated,but then that would be too easy.
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Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

POSTMAN wrote:
Caniel wrote:They lapse packets at my office. Which means I get moaned at by the poor sod who's taken the day off work to wait in for a packet that he asked to be redelivered but hasn't come since it's buried in a skip in the office somewhere.... :hmmmm
They should be seperated,but then that would be too easy.

Our section sort all re-deliveries to the walkers no matter the size. Although it sounds daft it actually works. Because walkers sort packets last, and the drivers have already split them for the 5 districts in our post code, when we take the oversize ones to the correct drivers yorkie it means its on the top and rarely gets missed.

Simples.

Packets seemed to have doubled this last fortnight but AFAIK we have not yet failed, though it has been close on a couple of days.
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Post by Captain Scarlet »

We had an audit recently, (think the dim didn,t know about it) and we had 900 pkts on one day still to be delivered!!! some were overdue by 2 weeks ffs :crazy: next team brief dim is asking anyone who wants to come in on day of as we have an extra van can do pkts!!! think he was squeeking when walking cos no-one said they wanted out............... :Boo hoo!
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Post by montriff »

Not the boro by any chance ? im still waiting on a packet from last week :roll:
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Post by RedBagMan »

Talking to a postie from a neghbouring office at the weekend - he reckons 20 Yorks ... and climbing :shock:
"We're under model" - oh no we're not - stick your lapse elsewhere ...
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Post by Godric »

RedBagMan wrote:Talking to a postie from a neghbouring office at the weekend - he reckons 20 Yorks ... and climbing :shock:

it has been known to happen in our office at times, but never to that extent, currently we are up to date ... the real cause is dely offices having a skeleton crew because dims are not filling vacancies expecting posties to work their day off :no no .... they know not to ask me because i remind them that we went out on strike to get our 5 day week :so there
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Post by PhilthyPhil »

My office is pretty good on the whole although when we are short staffed the packets and missort run are the first things to go. Never left for more than one day tho and tracked are always cleared. With the office being 80% van deliveries it should never be that bad anyway. One of our neighbouring offices is really bad and everytime I go there there are yorks of packets everywhere and the DOM is off with stress :hmmmm
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Post by Lounge Lizard »

RedBagMan wrote:Talking to a postie from a neghbouring office at the weekend - he reckons 20 Yorks ... and climbing :shock:
and by Christmas ? :shock: ? :shock: