mma83 wrote:CRAP
I would like to thank the person for prepping my walk........over 30 miss-sorts, only marked up some of the packages and didn't do any D2D's. House number 120 with number 12 in pile etc
Planned around 1 bag drop off point, only to be told after I had bagged up they didn't have the key, so only 5mins away but when walking to and from what should have been 5 times would equate to 50mins downtime(left 2 n half bags tho so only had approx 20 mins wasted)
No time to read the 'walk' folder-1st time on that walk
Every f*cker seemed to be out today so plenty of returned parcels
Got told to make own way back to depot because I cut-off....hmmmm, if I knew the area,bus route etc had been told in my interview this would be expected of me, I would have told them where to go. So you use your OWN PHONE, if you use your own car(I don't) you pay your OWN petrol, OWN bus. insurance, if you get a bus back you pay too???
To top it off, the manager did pick me up, but told me he wasn't very happy with what I had left. Told him that might be a 3.5 hour walk to a experienced postman who knows the route. I am new, don't know the walk, drop offs etc and that it is busier than when they did the 'timed walk'. Also as I was half bagged up, I had a full bag parcels n flats dropped off to me.......not my fault some idiot put it in the wrong frame/frame is misprinted. But yeh, silly old me has to go through sorted mail and waste yet more time.
Left it by telling the manager I wasn''t very happy with his planning
So no extension to my 3 1/2 month contract
This sort of thing is and has been the normal s**t treatment dished out to spares, floaters & any poor unfortunate who finds themselves in an unfamiliar office. This shoddy practice by management is totally unacceptable. Its the old attitude of 'just get it out of the office so we show CLEAR!'.
Gone are the days when everyone had a weeks training then two weeks shadowing an experienced postie.
Even experienced guys get s**t on in the same way, like those who went part time and experience the 'missort' problem that you have. This only happens because of two things.
1 is the pressu we are ALL under and,
2 No one cares any more, especially about the receiving customer from the business point of view beause they don't pay anything towards the cost of getting it delivered.
Delivery is the loss making ebd of the business, However, those receiving customers are also POSTING customers tomorrow. If Royal Mail keeps putting back deliveries to later starts & finishes, then these are the very people who will use competitors, who will hav done half a days work before we even have our sequenced mail in the office.
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it got so bad that I had to take my shoes off and empty the water out 
