CLEAR OFFICE

[The hollow man]

Lichfield not been out on foot for two days now, only delivering SD and parcels office is rammed and the queue for the callers office is huge

add to that some packets haven't gone out all week on some of the walks, callers office also shut at 1.00 x mas eve - people turning up for xmas packets going away fuming. Mail /packets/mech all over the shop. Half prepped frames in abundance full of flats/mech and packets.... roll on next weds

[The hollow man]

Lichfield not been out on foot for two days now, only delivering SD and parcels office is rammed and the queue for the callers office is huge

My brother lives in Netherstowe area, near the Dr Johnson. I think he got my Xmas card though and I only sent it last week. Or was it this week. Dunno, but he got it anyway.

well he was lucky then i can assure you - the walks gone out only 2 days this week.

[krussel]

A full load of mail came in today with no less parcels than all week , so anyone thinking of an early finish was stuffed. I took one look at my full york of parcels and told the dom straight away i could not see myself getting round. She could not understand it , she actually said so the fact ive been taking up to 6 hours to get round on this ice seems to have not registered with her at all, but then ive not been going home to nearly 3pm all week and she's been out the door by 1pm .

Anyway She called "live mail only" which due to the amount of christmas cards i knew was not going to make any difference (in fact i left 9 calls out of 362). She came round again looking very concerned at the frame of mail but offering no practical advice. So i told her i would clear the parcels first then start the delivey as normal until i began to run out of time at which point i would clear the packets. Which is what i did and cut off a bag and a half at 13.45 .

Oh my concerned dom went home at 10.40am as she had a lot still to do at home . Bless

Merry Christmas, weve done our best

[enzio]

we got all thr packets done but there is mail all over the place might get it done for next chistmass

[taurus88]

Our office is nowhere near clear after today. I cleared everything that was given to me to take out, but there's still mail crammed on yorks, mostly DSA rubbish. Alright, alright, I tell a lie, we cleared most of the stuff that mattered! It was quite light today, took me three and a half hours to get round. Finished at 11.45am. Am very happy to have a good four days off now as my body has taken a battering the last three/four weeks.

[Indy]

Got back to the Office at around 12:30 after plodding around my walk to find the place devoid of any management! The callers was open but apart from that the place was deserted. Office totally clear....Town Corner had about 5 or 6 letter in it. Its been the lightest Christmas I've ever seen by a country mile!

[kimski1976]

30 shrouds of unsorted packets in DO and a further 50 at MC. great job RM

[redspartapost]

hammered with dsa today 7 coded trays on frame this morning ,we were told to clear packets even if it meant leaving mail .left a full tray of mailsort didnt do condems or redirections.full york of letters left and the primary has enough letters laid out unsorted to justify keeping the night shift running probaly til end of year.

[TeeferTiger]

Lichfield not been out on foot for two days now, only delivering SD and parcels office is rammed and the queue for the callers office is huge

My brother lives in Netherstowe area, near the Dr Johnson. I think he got my Xmas card though and I only sent it last week. Or was it this week. Dunno, but he got it anyway.

well he was lucky then i can assure you - the walks gone out only 2 days this week.

He was moaning that they'd not had much snow... lol

[REDLETTER]

Thought our DIM was going to cry when he said we had failed today

Don't whether it was because of the bonus or that he was genuinely upset and concerned.

Did say that we had "All done very well" considering the snow etc

[fishtank]

Delivered around 300 packets today between 2 of us...knackered.

Office clear of packets...jammed full of letters and flats.

Fail.

[clashcityrocker]

Office clear of packets...jammed full of letters and flats.

Fail.

At least that makes sense (ish)
We failed letters, flats and packets.
I suggested we fail the deliveries to concentrate on clearing the packets but the word from up above was - spend part of the morning sorting Spring/Summer catalogues even if you have no intention of delivering them.
Next week we won't have the resources to clear the packets we failed today.
Christmas just isn't happening in Cambuslang.

[axeman]

clear office ........ ....i don't think so there you are higson ow's about that then modernisation sure works

[dvbuk55]

We failed parcels, packets, flats and letters big style...............the manager was really disappointed but it wasn't his fault and it wasn't ours .....it was a failure of the organisation that spends money on everything except the wherewithal to carry out the tasks for which it is intended. Is it any wonder that there are calls for privatisation? The influx of Internet shopping has been forecast and yet RM was certainly not prepared for it and probably in retrospect would not have rushed the modernisation programs through but relied on the tried and trusted methods which have worked in the past.

The one thing I believe, that has been said in recent years, is that the higher management set to steer this company back to profitability and success are woefully inadequate.

[theeggster]

No packets sorted today even though we had yorks of them.Just sorting from 6.00 till 8.00 then tie and go.Deck packed with yorks of mail left.WTF.I finished 11.30! Had three pouches! Nothing.Customers mean nothing to our managers.But not complaining about early finish.Mugs.