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The "How was your day" thread.

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by rhino49 »

heapsy wrote:Been busy the last few days. Couldn't access the net since Thursday night and just got it sorted. :confused Ah well normal service has resumed. :chuckle
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maninred
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by maninred »

clashcityrocker wrote:A whole morning in the caller's office with the queue out the door and half way down the car park.
And how difficult is it really for a postie to put some sort of description on the 739?
Very difficult apparently. :crazy: The name on the packet/letter and the name the postie has scrawled on the card also seems to be a challenge. :roll:
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by arty_morty »

Typical Monday, very light. My DOM even gave me the leave I asked for so not a bad day all round.
I staged a Roger Moore impersonator festival in my local village. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, I can tell you.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by heapsy »

Just over 4 and a quarter hrs for delivery. Not much in the way of packets, or flats for that matter. Will probably catch up through the week. :roll:
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by clashcityrocker »

It was crap.
The rest of the week will be crap as well.
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Royal_Fail
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Royal_Fail »

Would of been nice day if not for lapsing :arrrghhh
Darren Bent
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Darren Bent »

Ditto and waiting for bag drop to arrive.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by arty_morty »

Darren Bent wrote:Ditto and waiting for bag drop to arrive.
Driver busy doing packets?
I staged a Roger Moore impersonator festival in my local village. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, I can tell you.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Darren Bent »

No miss bag drop run. This is due to spending 1 hr 50 minutes on IPS. Never understood the need to spend that long on IPS.
:no no
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by L8Hatter »

Extraordinary day

Have been doing this round for a year on a 9-2 contract, but always get extra as there's always so much waiting to be done. It's the heaviest prep in the section to be fair.

Today, there was just the packets, redirections, kill-offs and D2d prep. Was out of the office an hour after arriving and back 20 minutes before finish time. Actually how the job should be for the first time! Even the D2Ds were light, compared to last week's backbreakers.

Needless to say, I hated it, as had nothing to complain about
taurus88
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by taurus88 »

Not that light. Some big mags and some utter crud to get rid of today. Packets weren't bad. Office as a whole was in a state of shambles. We've had guys go over to the machines in the past few months and they haven't been replaced. An office that was just about functioning now seems to be in complete disarray. Packets are strewn all over the place and as far as I can tell, managers are having to do parts of walks that they cannot get cover for. I suspect the issue of lapsing may well come to the fore in the not-too-distant future, we have somehow managed to resist it so far, but the same idiots keep running around and are finishing hours early. I hope our office genuinely resists when lapsing is brought in, but I expect there's no compromising with human stupidity.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

clashcityrocker wrote:A whole morning in the caller's office with the queue out the door and half way down the car park.
And how difficult is it really for a postie to put some sort of description on the 739?
I do - every time ImageImage

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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by hampshireman »

Nice day so far... Day off. Weather decent. Go haircut (not much hair to cut though). Had lunch with lovely wife ... and the best bit...

Car passed MOT!!!!!

Back to the grind tomorrow.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by fishtank »

hampshireman wrote:Had lunch with lovely wife ...
Whose wife?
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by clashcityrocker »

fishtank wrote:
hampshireman wrote:Had lunch with lovely wife ...
Whose wife?
You sound worried FT.
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