royal mail posts 15,000 temporary christmas jobs

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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As usual, the Royal Mail is anticipating a huge surge in seasonal mail and so will be looking to fill around 15,000 Christmas jobs in 2010. Each year the postal service employs thousands of extra people in temporary jobs and they don’t expect Christmas 2010 to be any exception.

In a normal week the Royal Mail sifts through approximately 70 million letters, packages and parcels but that figure doubles to around 130 million in the run up to Christmas. That is why the Royal Mail needs to take on so many extra staff every December.

Last year, the Royal Mail announced they would recruit 17,500 staff for temporary work leading up to Christmas and later said they could need as many as 30,000 extra staff due to threatened strike action.

The 15,000 temporary vacancies on offer from Royal Mail for Christmas 2010 will be at locations all across the country and a range of shifts will be on offer. Typically, the Christmas jobs with Royal Mail last for two to three weeks and the majority are for indoor mail sorters.

[chelseachris]

Its a pity they could'nt hang on to a few of these casuals after christmas has finished because we could do with them

[taurus88]

Our office, 100 plus walks, 25 staff down at least, yet we're not getting a single Christmas casual. Yay.

[Straight4ward]

I love this time of year!

When we do our bit for three weeks to help society and give jobs to all the waifs and strays, the ‘care in the community’ folk, the petty thieves and the still at large axe murderers.

People who’s sense of direction reaches no further than from their front door to the local bookies. People who’s grasp of the geography of the British Isles would place Edinburgh in Surrey and Sunderland just outside of Truro. People for whom a postcode is akin to a cryptic crossword clue. Every man jack of them, a dyslexic.

Bring ‘em on. Lets meet this year’s intake in the firm belief (just as we believed last year) that somehow, someway, this year it will be better!

[guvenor]

there only there to replace all the good honest posties we lose year after year through savings and cost cutting
no ot for me again this year
oh and dont all the xmas casuals get del supplement as were delivering d2d this xmas

[DGP1]

Do your DO's get any casuals at Christmas? My office is lucky to get 1 extra van............I thought all the extra staff went to MC/Outhouses (?)

[POSTMAN]

I love this time of year!

When we do our bit for three weeks to help society and give jobs to all the waifs and strays, the ‘care in the community’ folk, the petty thieves and the still at large axe murderers.

People who’s sense of direction reaches no further than from their front door to the local bookies. People who’s grasp of the geography of the British Isles would place Edinburgh in Surrey and Sunderland just outside of Truro. People for whom a postcode is akin to a cryptic crossword clue. Every man jack of them, a dyslexic.

Bring ‘em on. Lets meet this year’s intake in the firm belief (just as we believed last year) that somehow, someway, this year it will be better!

Briliant...........................funny...................................but true.

[Wessex]

I love this time of year!

When we do our bit for three weeks to help society and give jobs to all the waifs and strays, the ‘care in the community’ folk, the petty thieves and the still at large axe murderers.

People who’s sense of direction reaches no further than from their front door to the local bookies. People who’s grasp of the geography of the British Isles would place Edinburgh in Surrey and Sunderland just outside of Truro. People for whom a postcode is akin to a cryptic crossword clue. Every man jack of them, a dyslexic.

Bring ‘em on. Lets meet this year’s intake in the firm belief (just as we believed last year) that somehow, someway, this year it will be better!

That cracked me up

[not me]

Do your DO's get any casuals at Christmas? My office is lucky to get 1 extra van............I thought all the extra staff went to MC/Outhouses (?)

never in my DO
though im looking forward ot my £100 xmas bonus while working to my time all December
bring on the D2D's

[plainpat]

I love this time of year!

When we do our bit for three weeks to help society and give jobs to all the waifs and strays, the ‘care in the community’ folk, the petty thieves and the still at large axe murderers.

People who’s sense of direction reaches no further than from their front door to the local bookies. People who’s grasp of the geography of the British Isles would place Edinburgh in Surrey and Sunderland just outside of Truro. People for whom a postcode is akin to a cryptic crossword clue. Every man jack of them, a dyslexic.

Bring ‘em on. Lets meet this year’s intake in the firm belief (just as we believed last year) that somehow, someway, this year it will be better!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sh ... broad.html

[Glenno]

oh and dont all the xmas casuals get del supplement as were delivering d2d this xmas

Correct me if I am wrong guv'nor Casuals employed these days are on 0hr contracts
as it states in 2010 aggreement D2D payment pro-rata
pro-rata x 0hr contract = 0, zilch, diddly squat, nought x 13 weeks
F*****g disgrace

[meercat]

I love this time of year!

When we do our bit for three weeks to help society and give jobs to all the waifs and strays, the ‘care in the community’ folk, the petty thieves and the still at large axe murderers.

[/u]

lol but I fink you'll find some of em axe murderers and dyslexits work for RM all year round too. Not that I am one.... Are you lookin' at ME?