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Delivery box frames!

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mccoop
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Delivery box frames!

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Delivery box frames,you remember dont you?Let me remind you,6rows of nine boxes per frame.If you had a big duty you had two frames.
All of the odds of one street went into one box and evens into another.Then before you could tie up, you had to take evens/odds out and prep them up into the right order,high or low.Now my question is do we,can we,or should we still be using them.If not then why do some firm deliveries still use them?Is is because the new frames,sorry forgot the name are too helpful with prep and cut prep time.
Having used both types of frames there can be only one winner.And just to keep my axe sharp,why after 6months vacant are duties still been kept away from a resign and Management are been allowed to "give" postmen duties on a so called temp basis?
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New frames are RM2000 slots keep breaking and wings falling off and in our office are crammed in like sardine tins on a supermarket shelf!.
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Re: Delivery box frames!

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k979aaa wrote:New frames are RM2000 slots keep breaking and wings falling off and in our office are crammed in like sardine tins on a supermarket shelf!.
Main problem has been since walk sequence mail,top row what a pain to prep.need 6foot postmen.
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mccoop wrote:
k979aaa wrote:New frames are RM2000 slots keep breaking and wings falling off and in our office are crammed in like sardine tins on a supermarket shelf!.
Main problem has been since walk sequence mail,top row what a pain to prep.need 6foot postmen.
Don't prep in sequence, do a bit on the top, a bit on the 2nd row, bit on the 3rd bit on the bottom and then repeat, saves your shoulder :Very Happy
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mccoop wrote:
k979aaa wrote:New frames are RM2000 slots keep breaking and wings falling off and in our office are crammed in like sardine tins on a supermarket shelf!.
Main problem has been since walk sequence mail,top row what a pain to prep.need 6foot postmen.
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When he says top row,does he mean the top row where packets go? :no no
The frames aint that high bar the top/packet row.
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4 duties in our office still use them because we haven't enough room and they still beat the rm 2000s out about 50% of the time.