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Flats/Tower Blocks
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johnnyp
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Flats/Tower Blocks
This might have been covered before but whats the score in your office when delivering to flats with lifts that are not working?
How many flights of stairs should/do you walk up?
5 seems to be the number at our place,but we had a postie the other day who walked up to the 17th floor with a reg as the lift was out.
How many flights of stairs should/do you walk up?
5 seems to be the number at our place,but we had a postie the other day who walked up to the 17th floor with a reg as the lift was out.
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POSTMAN
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
Johnny i thought 5 was the norm,17th floor,feck that. 
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It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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beeswax
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
before you go up more than 5 flights of 13 steps your manager should refer you to ATOS so they can do a risk assesment 
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Indy
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
A recent temp manager said it was the number of floors in the tower block + 1 I kid you not!johnnyp wrote:This might have been covered before but whats the score in your office when delivering to flats with lifts that are not working?
How many flights of stairs should/do you walk up?
5 seems to be the number at our place,but we had a postie the other day who walked up to the 17th floor with a reg as the lift was out.
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redspartapost
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
i think its 7 floors max in my d.o
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Stormproof
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
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So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets
Illegitimi non carborundum
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets
Illegitimi non carborundum
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Indy
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
fook me what do you make of that!! I'm speachless!Stormproof wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbVFuydEFSQ
"we know all our customers by name" bloody hell!
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smokerjim
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
Course we do....TNT, DHL, CitiPost, etc, etcIndy wrote:fook me what do you make of that!! I'm speachless!Stormproof wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbVFuydEFSQ
"we know all our customers by name" bloody hell!
I don't suppose your mouth bleeds every 28 days, does it?
Mail delivery; those that can, do, those that can't, MANAGE!
Mail delivery; those that can, do, those that can't, MANAGE!
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Jimmcguinn
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
How could you forget dear old SKY and Dominos Pizza??smokerjim wrote:Course we do....TNT, DHL, CitiPost, etc, etcIndy wrote:fook me what do you make of that!! I'm speachless!Stormproof wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbVFuydEFSQ
"we know all our customers by name" bloody hell!
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Eric Cantona
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
There is no specific limit on floors it goes on what weight you are carrying, I think its 5 kilos the limit other than that break your bag down. But as usual R.M don't give a toss as long as the walk is covered. You can argue till your blue in the face with the R.M and Union health and safety but you won't get anywhere. My tip is don't go over and that's the part you leave in if you can't finish. Let the DOMs do that bit.
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sidewinder
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
You're right in a sense about weight but not floors. I had a block of flats 10 floors with 1 lift. The floor limit is or I was told by rep and dim Dom, 3 floors and 6 kilos.Eric Cantona wrote:There is no specific limit on floors it goes on what weight you are carrying, I think its 5 kilos the limit other than that break your bag down. But as usual R.M don't give a toss as long as the walk is covered. You can argue till your blue in the face with the R.M and Union health and safety but you won't get anywhere. My tip is don't go over and that's the part you leave in if you can't finish. Let the DOMs do that bit.
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Eric Cantona
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
Been told sidewinder means nothing. If you get it in writing then that's different. One guy in my office climbs 5 flights in four different entrances. That's 20 floors. He is so pissed off he has give up arguingsidewinder wrote:You're right in a sense about weight but not floors. I had a block of flats 10 floors with 1 lift. The floor limit is or I was told by rep and dim Dom, 3 floors and 6 kilos.Eric Cantona wrote:There is no specific limit on floors it goes on what weight you are carrying, I think its 5 kilos the limit other than that break your bag down. But as usual R.M don't give a toss as long as the walk is covered. You can argue till your blue in the face with the R.M and Union health and safety but you won't get anywhere. My tip is don't go over and that's the part you leave in if you can't finish. Let the DOMs do that bit.
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smokerjim
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
Cos I tried bloody hard, m'dear boy!Jimmcguinn wrote:How good you forget dear old SKY and Dominos Pizza??smokerjim wrote:Course we do....TNT, DHL, CitiPost, etc, etcIndy wrote:fook me what do you make of that!! I'm speachless!Stormproof wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbVFuydEFSQ
"we know all our customers by name" bloody hell!
I don't suppose your mouth bleeds every 28 days, does it?
Mail delivery; those that can, do, those that can't, MANAGE!
Mail delivery; those that can, do, those that can't, MANAGE!
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sidewinder
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
Yes it was in writing and on notice board.Eric Cantona wrote:Been told sidewinder means nothing. If you get it in writing then that's different. One guy in my office climbs 5 flights in four different entrances. That's 20 floors. He is so pissed off he has give up arguingsidewinder wrote:You're right in a sense about weight but not floors. I had a block of flats 10 floors with 1 lift. The floor limit is or I was told by rep and dim Dom, 3 floors and 6 kilos.Eric Cantona wrote:There is no specific limit on floors it goes on what weight you are carrying, I think its 5 kilos the limit other than that break your bag down. But as usual R.M don't give a toss as long as the walk is covered. You can argue till your blue in the face with the R.M and Union health and safety but you won't get anywhere. My tip is don't go over and that's the part you leave in if you can't finish. Let the DOMs do that bit.
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sidewinder
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Re: Flats/Tower Blocks
Just had the horrible thought that the ugly words local agreement , springs to mind here.