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People who get loads of packets

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Mr Blonde
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People who get loads of packets

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And are never in get on my tits.

I have one person, day after day, has a minimum of a tray of packets some of which will go through the door, some won't so have to come back. Surely there must be some kind of arrangement that we can come to with customers as regards situations like these? It's farcical that I'm just taking packets out for a ride every day.
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Re: People who get loads of packets

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Mr Blonde wrote:And are never in get on my tits.

I have one person, day after day, has a minimum of a tray of packets some of which will go through the door, some won't so have to come back. Surely there must be some kind of arrangement that we can come to with customers as regards situations like these? It's farcical that I'm just taking packets out for a ride every day.
Why worry ? Just 739 them and thats it!
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ebbzie wrote:
Mr Blonde wrote:And are never in get on my tits.

I have one person, day after day, has a minimum of a tray of packets some of which will go through the door, some won't so have to come back. Surely there must be some kind of arrangement that we can come to with customers as regards situations like these? It's farcical that I'm just taking packets out for a ride every day.
Why worry ? Just 739 them and thats it!
Yes 739 them, however you still have to carry them about until you can get rid of them in a box. For these people who are never in and always have packets, they should just arrange with the local office to pick them up there and save my time writing out 739's and save my back from carrying packets around.
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Re: People who get loads of packets

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box_shana wrote:
ebbzie wrote:
Mr Blonde wrote:And are never in get on my tits.

I have one person, day after day, has a minimum of a tray of packets some of which will go through the door, some won't so have to come back. Surely there must be some kind of arrangement that we can come to with customers as regards situations like these? It's farcical that I'm just taking packets out for a ride every day.
Why worry ? Just 739 them and thats it!
Yes 739 them, however you still have to carry them about until you can get rid of them in a box. For these people who are never in and always have packets, they should just arrange with the local office to pick them up there and save my time writing out 739's and save my back from carrying packets around.
If you have a "box full" send them out with a driver
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Re: People who get loads of packets

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ebbzie wrote:
box_shana wrote:
ebbzie wrote:
Mr Blonde wrote:And are never in get on my tits.

I have one person, day after day, has a minimum of a tray of packets some of which will go through the door, some won't so have to come back. Surely there must be some kind of arrangement that we can come to with customers as regards situations like these? It's farcical that I'm just taking packets out for a ride every day.
Why worry ? Just 739 them and thats it!
Yes 739 them, however you still have to carry them about until you can get rid of them in a box. For these people who are never in and always have packets, they should just arrange with the local office to pick them up there and save my time writing out 739's and save my back from carrying packets around.
If you have a "box full" send them out with a driver
The drivers in my office won't touch packets unless they are really heavy.

I dont know why posties are expected to deliver any packet that will not fit through a standard letterbox. Surely these packets should go out with a driver. To give the postie a break from lumping a heavy bag around.
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Re: People who get loads of packets

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box_shana wrote:
ebbzie wrote:
box_shana wrote:
ebbzie wrote:
Mr Blonde wrote:And are never in get on my tits.

I have one person, day after day, has a minimum of a tray of packets some of which will go through the door, some won't so have to come back. Surely there must be some kind of arrangement that we can come to with customers as regards situations like these? It's farcical that I'm just taking packets out for a ride every day.
Why worry ? Just 739 them and thats it!
Yes 739 them, however you still have to carry them about until you can get rid of them in a box. For these people who are never in and always have packets, they should just arrange with the local office to pick them up there and save my time writing out 739's and save my back from carrying packets around.
If you have a "box full" send them out with a driver
The drivers in my office won't touch packets unless they are really heavy.

I dont know why posties are expected to deliver any packet that will not fit through a standard letterbox. Surely these packets should go out with a driver. To give the postie a break from lumping a heavy bag around.

well you should be using the yellow template to say they are too big for you and you shouldnt be lumping a heavy bag anywhere, just stick to the maximum weight limits, it may add more time to your round or extra packets to the driver but both are not you issue to deal with manager is the one who will have to worry about making it work
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Re: People who get loads of packets

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Try having less items in the bags which cover places which get loads of packets then at least if they're not in you won't have to carry too much weight in the bag for too long, just means perhaps one or two more bag drops for the driver to deal with
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Re: People who get loads of packets

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SpacePhoenix wrote:Try having less items in the bags which cover places which get loads of packets then at least if they're not in you won't have to carry too much weight in the bag for too long, just means perhaps one or two more bag drops for the driver to deal with
Would work on P&L - But wont on Foot Delivery unless Manager has authorised using pouch boxes as a way to return packets, and if you only have safe drops then you have to carry it round till either you get close to a PO or till you return to the office.
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There was a download on here somewhere that gave measurements for what eactly consitutes a packet and a parcel..it was 400mmx400x200 and another for a long thin thing..basically take nothing that is over shoe box size,nothing that weights more than 2.5 kgs and groups of smaller you are supposed to ask the DIM
box_shana wrote:
ebbzie wrote:
box_shana wrote:
ebbzie wrote:
Mr Blonde wrote:And are never in get on my tits.

I have one person, day after day, has a minimum of a tray of packets some of which will go through the door, some won't so have to come back. Surely there must be some kind of arrangement that we can come to with customers as regards situations like these? It's farcical that I'm just taking packets out for a ride every day.
Why worry ? Just 739 them and thats it!
Yes 739 them, however you still have to carry them about until you can get rid of them in a box. For these people who are never in and always have packets, they should just arrange with the local office to pick them up there and save my time writing out 739's and save my back from carrying packets around.
If you have a "box full" send them out with a driver
The drivers in my office won't touch packets unless they are really heavy.

I dont know why posties are expected to deliver any packet that will not fit through a standard letterbox. Surely these packets should go out with a driver. To give the postie a break from lumping a heavy bag around.
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Mr Blonde
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Re: People who get loads of packets

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Maybe people have missed my point here.

I am on P&L and the one person I'm thinking of gets a tray full most days of the week plus a massive oversized packet / parcel / box big enough to hide in once a week.

There is barely enough room with the trolleys, pouches, trays and other packets in the back of the van to take these out just to bring back a few hours later.
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Mr Blonde wrote:Maybe people have missed my point here.

I am on P&L and the one person I'm thinking of gets a tray full most days of the week plus a massive oversized packet / parcel / box big enough to hide in once a week.

There is barely enough room with the trolleys, pouches, trays and other packets in the back of the van to take these out just to bring back a few hours later.
It's only annoying if you let it be annoying, if they're not there then just P739 it and put it back in the van for a trip back to the office, it's not personal, it's just the job so, :Very Happy write the docket out and think about them having to rush down to the callers office to collect them.........while you're at home watching a repeat of Top Gear on Dave :nervous

Anyway, the most annoying are the people who want re-deliveries but aren't there when you go back :roll:
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Re: People who get loads of packets

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Try catch her on a saturday and ask if theirs neighbour you can leave them with.

Alternatively put 24 hrs on P739 on say monday then put tuesdays packets in callers office tuesday morning :wink:
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Re: People who get loads of packets

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DGP1 wrote:
Mr Blonde wrote:Maybe people have missed my point here.

I am on P&L and the one person I'm thinking of gets a tray full most days of the week plus a massive oversized packet / parcel / box big enough to hide in once a week.

There is barely enough room with the trolleys, pouches, trays and other packets in the back of the van to take these out just to bring back a few hours later.
It's only annoying if you let it be annoying, if they're not there then just P739 it and put it back in the van for a trip back to the office, it's not personal, it's just the job so, :Very Happy write the docket out and think about them having to rush down to the callers office to collect them.........while you're at home watching a repeat of Top Gear on Dave :nervous

Anyway, the most annoying are the people who want re-deliveries but aren't there when you go back :roll:
That would all be very good but this customer doesn't come and get them, they have them redelivered and there have been occasions where they've not been there for the "en masse" redelivery.