courier propagander crap again.

[Nobodyshero]

The supposed last words of King George V come to mind - - - - - .

Who's bognor?

Cyrille's brother

[spoodoo]

why is it posties say 15 20 years ago got finished really really early also all the overtime they handed out willy nilly ,why did the bosses no put there foot down then ,,just a rant sorry lol

[fishtank]

why is it posties say 15 20 years ago got finished really really early

I didn't.
We usually started our first delivery around 0645-0730(bad day) finished around 0930 -1000(bad day) and then back to the office for break...then you either did a second or sorted ASAP until your finish time....11.48 iirc.
You have to remember we worked 6 days then.
Saturday was your only guaranteed early finish....O.O.T.G....once over the ground...home for 0900.

[sidewinder]

The supposed last words of King George V come to mind - - - - - .

Who's bognor?

Cyrille's brother

Oh very droll.

[arnold cheshire]

why is it posties say 15 20 years ago got finished really really early

I didn't.
We usually started our first delivery around 0645-0730(bad day) finished around 0930 -1000(bad day) and then back to the office for break...then you either did a second or sorted ASAP until your finish time....11.48 iirc.
You have to remember we worked 6 days then.
Saturday was your only guaranteed early finish....O.O.T.G....once over the ground...home for 0900.

it was 41 and half hours a week mine was 5 till 12.18pm mon to fri then sat 5 am to 10AM half an hour break

[minimumstandard]

I hought the letter about crap uniform was good!

[fishtank]

it was 41 and half hours a week mine was 5 till 12.18pm mon to fri then sat 5 am to 10AM half an hour break

0430 start for me.
Up at 0345...don't know how i did it for all those years.
Can't drag myself out of bed at 0545 now.

[smelly_cat_lady]

Interesting to see that packets and parcels weren't mentioned.............don't suppose they had much shopping on internet in 1976?

Besides all that crap, I'd like to big up my chemo nurse Eileen who was on the left hand side of the front page. She's a legend

[eastie]

How many postmen were there in 1976
Compared to now?
Bet the postmen in 1976 didnt have 10 bags of mail each day

[dvbuk55]

When I joined I believe there was about 65 postmen for our office and that number didn't go up for a number of years well into the 90s, so if the mail has fallen by such a huge amount why is it taking 100 MORE postmen to deliver less mail with more vehicles, trolleys, css machines, planners, managers et al ..........it must be down to such wonderful management that it is now taking one and a half times more staff and god knows how much more in equipment to do even less work.

[IloveMYredTROLLEY!]

Never opened or looked at my monthly propoganda mag, other half gives me a 5 second summary of what lies and statistics are being thrown around in each issue!

[Chimps_tea_party]

I managed to opt out of receiving it.

[chuzzwuzzer]

I would rather go back to the good old days of 6 day weeks and be finished at a reasonable hour than the shite we have to put up with now

[dvbuk55]

I would rather go back to the good old days of 6 day weeks and be finished at a reasonable hour than the shite we have to put up with now

Just looking back a decade or so there must be almost half our office who haven't worked the six days we used to do.

[scoobydo79]

I never wanted to finnish early on a Saturday. I was happy to docket after My own duty cos it was double time if You remember