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Wednesday

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
Midnight+13
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Re: Wednesday

Post by Midnight+13 »

Have day off Thursday and week off next week, needless to say i won't be breaking my back to deliver all the D2D's in 2 days. Dream on Royal Mail!
dean07
EX ROYAL MAIL
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Re: Wednesday

Post by dean07 »

You only have to do 3 days d2d,s ie 20% per day. Stuff the other 40%. Let the Dom,s sort it out :dance
SpacePhoenix
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Re: Wednesday

Post by SpacePhoenix »

dean07 wrote:You only have to do 3 days d2d,s ie 20% per day. Stuff the other 40%. Let the Dom,s sort it out :dance
It's 100% over the week:
In order to provide the foundation for this approach and ensure customer confidence in the core product, Door to Door will become a 52 weeks a year product. There will be no change to the current D2D workplan and all items will continue to be available for delivery from Monday onwards. Whilst the planned workload will be spread across the 6 days, delivery employees will have the ability to manage the delivery of the items themselves on the proviso that all items are delivered within the week and the delivery specification is not affected.
That is quoted from page 23 of the agreement (3rd paragraph on the page)
REDLETTER
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Re: Wednesday

Post by REDLETTER »

SpacePhoenix wrote:
dean07 wrote:You only have to do 3 days d2d,s ie 20% per day. Stuff the other 40%. Let the Dom,s sort it out :dance
It's 100% over the week:
In order to provide the foundation for this approach and ensure customer confidence in the core product, Door to Door will become a 52 weeks a year product. There will be no change to the current D2D workplan and all items will continue to be available for delivery from Monday onwards. Whilst the planned workload will be spread across the 6 days, delivery employees will have the ability to manage the delivery of the items themselves on the proviso that all items are delivered within the week and the delivery specification is not affected.
That is quoted from page 23 of the agreement (3rd paragraph on the page)
But extra time needs to be allowed to prep the items in the frame, just take everyone off the IPS and it will work fine! :cuppa
blue1873
EX ROYAL MAIL
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Re: Wednesday

Post by blue1873 »

taurus88 wrote:We're not gonna get battered at all, calm down guys. Just think, if you get in and there's lots of mail and parcels, you're not getting battered. It's cold outside and you're getting a nice treat - lots of indoor work to break you back in nicely to the swing of things. You could be inside till 11.30 or some such ridiculous time, then you'll only have a couple of hours on delivery before you cut-off and then bang, you're off home. In fact, a day on which you get 'battered' is a far better day than a light one. Just follow the same parameters and you'll be able to cut off nicely and pleasantly in good time, getting home long before it's dark with a gorgeous mug of hot chocolate ready to warm your soul back up before another easy Thursday of cutting off.
Sounds a very good way to look at it to me :wink:
just work to your time
They wont like it "up em" Capt. Mannering :vcfo
Pat Ostman
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Location: In the Line Managers office being screwed over.

Re: Wednesday

Post by Pat Ostman »

Ditto, I am already planning to work to time on Wednesday. They caused this mess, let them deal with it :Boo hoo!
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wacko74
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Re: Wednesday

Post by wacko74 »

When unlimited dr2drs came in we were instructed by our DIM that we can strictly only do 20% a day... any less is willful delay, any more is a breach of H&S due to excess weight.

So stuff doing 100% in 3-4 days!
not me
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Location: Uranus

Re: Wednesday

Post by not me »

Pat Ostman wrote:Ditto, I am already planning to work to time on Wednesday. They caused this mess, let them deal with it :Boo hoo!

i run that plan every day ;)
hunnybunny73
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Re: Wednesday

Post by hunnybunny73 »

usually find that after xmas and for most of january it's actually worse than christmas, masses upon masses of ms3 , readers digest , travel catalogues etc etc etc and now with the backlog it's going to be torture
dados
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Re: Wednesday

Post by dados »

not bovvered,if i want to go over my time i will,altho twathead changed my rest day from Thurs to Sat,for "operational reasons",but i'll look forward to 3 days off,then a week off the week after,so,i can't complain
(altho with the amount of stuff our household has ordered from Amazon this week ,my postie might be having a word) :oops:
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eian687
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Re: Wednesday

Post by eian687 »

dados wrote:not bovvered,if i want to go over my time i will,altho twathead changed my rest day from Thurs to Sat,for "operational reasons",(altho :
more like budget reasons i think you will find saturday is a none operation day so you wont get your day off back thru bank holiday credit
ewancurze
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Gender: Male

Re: Wednesday

Post by ewancurze »

We had a HUGE amount of sky mags,holiday mags etc come in on Christmas eve,add that to a massive backlog plus d2d and absorption starts again on Wednesday.....better get the anti depressants out again i reckon and just try to chill....
dados
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Re: Wednesday

Post by dados »

eian687 wrote:
dados wrote:not bovvered,if i want to go over my time i will,altho twathead changed my rest day from Thurs to Sat,for "operational reasons",(altho :
more like budget reasons i think you will find saturday is a none operation day so you wont get your day off back thru bank holiday credit
yeah,forgot that 1,even bigger twathead then
Art as expression
Not as market campaigns
Will still capture our imaginations
pickaname
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007, 20:24

Re: Wednesday

Post by pickaname »

dados wrote:
eian687 wrote:
dados wrote:not bovvered,if i want to go over my time i will,altho twathead changed my rest day from Thurs to Sat,for "operational reasons",(altho :
more like budget reasons i think you will find saturday is a none operation day so you wont get your day off back thru bank holiday credit
yeah,forgot that 1,even bigger twathead then
Not being funny m8, but youre the twathead for letting him.
bottletree
Posts: 35
Joined: 19 Mar 2010, 20:53
Gender: Male

Re: Wednesday

Post by bottletree »

blue1873 wrote:
taurus88 wrote:We're not gonna get battered at all, calm down guys. Just think, if you get in and there's lots of mail and parcels, you're not getting battered. It's cold outside and you're getting a nice treat - lots of indoor work to break you back in nicely to the swing of things. You could be inside till 11.30 or some such ridiculous time, then you'll only have a couple of hours on delivery before you cut-off and then bang, you're off home. In fact, a day on which you get 'battered' is a far better day than a light one. Just follow the same parameters and you'll be able to cut off nicely and pleasantly in good time, getting home long before it's dark with a gorgeous mug of hot chocolate ready to warm your soul back up before another easy Thursday of cutting off.
Sounds a very good way to look at it to me :wink:
just work to your time
They wont like it "up em" Capt. Mannering :vcfo
This is exactly the right attitude we ALL should have. Do your job which you are paid to do. Dont kill yourselves because all you are to Royal Mail is a statistic.