dingo wrote:Or the model which they have adopted which means that all work which your mail centre has at 11 40 will go to the MPU which is mainly second class inward , 1st class intra , and some mail sort and local dsa. That now can be processed by the MPu from Midnight. Once one outward plan is fully rolled out this first pass will have appoxmately 60% of mail.
The rest of work which is distant and neighbour work ie coming from Manchester to London will not leave that mail centre till late at night and has to come to the recieving mail centre and then be broken down to the relevant post code. This will mean that it is targets to clear the mail centre around 4 40 in the morning and then get dispatched to the MPU. The MPU then has to batch sort the work with 3 passes each and then transfer to the satellite office.
So later finishes and later starts and longer saturdays were not given away by the union , it is a direct consequence of walk sequencing and there is no other solution.
Now lets have a look at door to door so we are going to lose time on ips and prep . Royal Mail`s orginal postion was that door to door is ordinary mail why should we now pay for it as work is now reducing and does not match 2006 levels, Of course the union was never going to accept it. However Royal Mail was never going to not have door to door into workload , quality was crap and when Royal Mail do not deliver door to door they not only have to pay comphensation for that failure but the priniting costs and call centre costs etc. I can understand some will argue that they have lost money but I do believe the deal on door to door intime will be recognised as a good deal.
Sorry, but later starts, later finishes, crap Saturdays for us poor buggers in deliveries, are a direct consequence of us belonging to one of the most inneffective trade unions it's been my misfortune to ever belong to.
Time, and time again, the vast majority of the members have taken the action that has been all too necessary, and time, and time again, they've been betrayed by men and women with no stomach for a fight, too safe in their cosy little full-time release worlds to see out a battle fought to the bitter end.
I've now lost count how many times we had RM management on the ropes, only for you and your cronies to slither along and scupper once and for all any hope that we might wring from RM improvements to our terms and conditions.
Royal Mail's senior executives must think they've never had an easier ride.
"Oh, this is the workplan we've come up with, it means the oiks who overwhelmingly supported every strike, will have even less quality time at the weekend than they do now (snigger). Sorry we didn't bother consulting with the union, but you know how it is (snigger).
The CWU has sown the seeds, let them now reap the bitter harvest.
