What can slow you down?

[fng]

"Anything for No.89 Postie?" when you are at No 1 - rummaging through the next bundle just to hand them 5 D2D's - slows you down, but i find it satisfying.

[Indy]

Lets make a list of potential things that can slow the job down, i will start off with one indoor and one outdoor
Indoor
Barcode stickers over the address
Outdoor
Stuck at railway crossing

Lets see how many we can get then they can be used to tell the dim why we could not complete.

Controlled 'sodding' entry
Flights of stairs
People who are in but think your the police/immigration/debt collector etc so wait till you've 739'd item and 10 houses up before opening the door and expecting you to walk back all cheerie grrrr

[DGP1]

People who are in but think your the police/immigration/debt collector etc so wait till you've 739'd item and 10 houses up before opening the door and expecting you to walk back all cheerie grrrr

Earphones...............they don't even have to be attached to anything but just there so you ignore the callers

[Johnny Remo]

INDOOR : yes those window envelopes when the address slips down.
OUTDOOR: the same again , did they get 1 or this one next door's! TAP,TAP,TAP.

I write the number on the envelope when sorting. Takes longer then, but helps when delivering.

[Lincox]

TNT, Citylink,UPS, Home Delivery, drivers asking for directions. Dont they get provided with Sat Navs.

[tonyhendrix]

having to ring up my dom as he is not based at my office , and asking him what if would like me to do ,as i am cuting off , long pause while he is thinking.

[bedfordrl]

Escaped sheep/horses and cows.

Dustcarts on narrow roads, who's rounds are similar to the point where we seem to meet at least a dozen times in various places.

People who are frightened of country lanes and drive everywhere at 20mph,in the middle of the road and stop whenever a bike comes the other way and have heart failure when a bus approaches, by which time I have chewed through the steering wheel to the metal.

[Pat Ostman]

Line Managers begging me to complete when it's obvious I cannot.

When will they realise it's now two bursts I am handing them back now instead of one because they went on, and on, and on.........

[BillyPosty]

Inside: D2Ds, walking to the other side of the office for the re-directs, work time learning, being moved to fittings you don't know most days, trying to find a spare york to take stuff outside (bright callers office staff use them to tidy up before we've left), asking for P739s because no one has re-stocked them, queing for specials, elastic bands that keep snapping, etc. etc.

Outside: lapsing, people who get out of bed when you knock and expect the door to be unlocked then waiting for 5 mins while they find the keys, peeling recorded stickers off, battling with catches and gates which need a good shove, letter boxes that are too stiff to use one hand, people asking for their post a few houses down, resurecting a bundle which has fallen apart due to elastic bands snapping on route, not bein able to park where you want, walking down long drives with just junk mail for the house, people stopping to have a chat, letter boxes low down on the floor, stupid boxes on the wall that are too narrow to get magazines flat packets in, scrap metal people doing 5mph down a long street, dustbin men etc. etc.

[twobags]

royal mail changes allways slow you down and a park and loop partner who puts recorded delivery letters in willy nilly ,his words some where in the frame cant remember where and more than likely not the first letter so having to scrutinise every letter and flat while on delivery even more

[Indy]

Actually that reminds me....

Foreign 'signed for' never (apart from irish ones) have a detachable sticky barcode so you have to write them in manually.... complete PITA

Strangely about 2 weeks ago I had a foreign Signed For with the red RM "signature required' sticker and a bar code of "R26" (or similar) next day got the same for a different address. So how the f*ck do they marry up the code with signature for the customer??? bet there having a laff at RM's expense

[redneck]

Mail and parcels slow me down. If it wasn't for them I could do the round quicker.











Might as well say that to our numerous DOMs that come and go - they never seem to believe me with all the other well known reasons that actually seem normal to me, such as putting fuel in a vehicle that is on empty, walking (not running) and starting work at the time I am paid from.

[karchun]

indoor - just before going out only to receive a dozen missorts when you have packed and ready to go
Outdoor - People talking and constantly talking (eg. some1 talking about their mail being treated not to an expected standard or blaming us for not posting the mail fully through the letterbox when you didn't commit such thing!)
Also the occasion when the elastic bands slip off due to different circumstances and the mail is either a mess in the pouch or on the floor everywhere!
Don't forget the long walks to each and every house when they are barred off with fences etc.
The people making us wait when they are either half asleep and naked (need to be dressed) oor in a shower...

These are just the start of the slowing down - these occur 75% of the time... (missort almost guaranteed each time!) xD

[Island991]

Picking up bike and bundles from the floor on windy days.

[anTi]

What can slow you down?

I cannot believe that it hasn't been said already.

TROLLYS!

They'll slow you down!