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On sat 19/5/12 at 1105 i got this message from my line manager. [door to doors are classed as a first class item lets make sure we deliver them all.I was 30min from completing my delivery. it was my managers long weekend days off so he sent it from home. At the time i thought it was personal but it turned out he sent it out to everyone including a postie boarding a plane on is way back from Spain. Is this normal behaviour?
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postoffice1 wrote:On sat 19/5/12 at 1105 i got this message from my line manager. [door to doors are classed as a first class item lets make sure we deliver them all.I was 30min from completing my delivery. it was my managers long weekend days off so he sent it from home. At the time i thought it was personal but it turned out he sent it out to everyone including a postie boarding a plane on is way back from Spain. Is this normal behaviour?
Ha ha yeah very `normal` :crazy:
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I wish i could finish a 11.35 on a sat nice one! :wink:
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CLINTEASTWOOD wrote:I wish i could finish a 11.35 on a sat nice one! :wink:
Good point, also i liked to know why everyone has given him thier personal mobile number?
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postoffice1 wrote: Is this normal behaviour?
No.
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AnotherLimey wrote:
CLINTEASTWOOD wrote:I wish i could finish a 11.35 on a sat nice one! :wink:
Good point, also i liked to know why everyone has given him thier personal mobile number?

it started out so you could contact him if you were experiencing any problems whilst out on delivery [never thought it could be used in such a negative way but then he was a new manager but as grown to be a monster backed by the higher ups.
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postoffice1 wrote: Is this normal behaviour?
Giving your DOM your mobile number? No :crazy:
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postoffice1 wrote:
it started out so YOU could contact him if you were experiencing any problems whilst out on delivery
I don't suppose they provide a phone for 'providing' this service
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postoffice1 wrote:On sat 19/5/12 at 1105 i got this message from my line manager. [door to doors are classed as a first class item lets make sure we deliver them all.I was 30min from completing my delivery. it was my managers long weekend days off so he sent it from home. At the time i thought it was personal but it turned out he sent it out to everyone including a postie boarding a plane on is way back from Spain. Is this normal behaviour?
if door to doors are a first class item they should all go on a monday and not be sitting around for weeks
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Has he been sectioned under the Mental Health Act?

D2D's are not, repeat NOT first class mail.

We are contracted to deliver them during a specified week, end of.

Providing we fulfil this obligation anything else is complete b*llocks.
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The National Agreement (Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond) reached between Royal Mail and the CWU requires that Door to Door (D2D) will be placed into measured workload and delivered over 6 days, 52 weeks a year.

D2D is now part of normal workload and that it is not optional – it has to be delivered to specification.
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