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Door 2 Doors!

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Flamunio
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Door 2 Doors!

Post by Flamunio »

Im a part timer... who works 25 hours a week and my door to doors are never made up for me! i was told to take them home one day which i refused... as i spoke to another manager on a different day who told me this was bad procedure.

I dont mind doing some up if i have spare time, etc im bagged up and waiting for the van driver... but sometimes ill get lumbered with them and pressured to go out late to make door to doors up... or even be told to take them on a saturday... im on a different job everyday... so prep is a little slow... as is everything else when on a new round

What should i do!?
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by POSTMAN »

Take the pressure,it's fun,go out late,that's fun as well,cut off,even more fun,soon enough things will get sorted. :pray
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by buzzerram »

we have been told that d2d are only done by full timers part timers only deliver them.
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by BillyPosty »

buzzerram wrote:we have been told that d2d are only done by full timers part timers only deliver them.
I'd like to see that in writing somewhere - all our part timers have to prep our own :roll:
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by AJ1987 »

buzzerram wrote:we have been told that d2d are only done by full timers part timers only deliver them.
I prep my own and chuck them in the frame, I'm on a 24hour part time contract
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by Judgee »

Our part timers don't do any they just leave them! :roll:
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by doorstepped »

I am a 25 hour duty holder and I prep and frame them all myself.

they are supposed to be live mail and as such should be chucked in with the real mail each day, however they are not lol.
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by NewPostieUK »

Part Time / Full Time has nothing to do with it. It depends on the duty. In my office its the duty holders responsibility to prep and deliver them, and time is built into the duty. Time is built in to prep mail, do redirections, kill offs etc etc and deliver the bloody stuff. Go over and claim, or cut off as required.

Personally, the few times someone has prepped my door to doors I've hated it. They do it strangely, like put them at the front of the slot, put larger ones first instead of last, and even put letters in between leaflets.
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by buzzerram »

no we were told that the agreement was who ever preps the round throws in the d2ds
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by fishtank »

There is no set agreement.
It will be down to local resourcing arrangements which will be driven by the part-timers daily hours.
It is important to say though that nobody has the right to refuse to prep D2D no matter what your hours are because they are just work.
All you can do is explain the impact that prepping them will have on your ability to complete your delivery and leave that resourcing problem to management.
If it is an ongoing issue it should be flagged up by your rep at the weekly resource meeting. :neutral:
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briantwigley
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by briantwigley »

Our floaters do the bare minimum - 1/6th. If I'm on the duty on the monday and it would inconvenience me later in the week I always set them all in.
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by spoodoo »

Our part timers get all there's put together for them
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by spoodoo »

We had loads of ppl in on there day off today Tuesday ,was an easy tues anyway ,but these guys got out the door at a shocking time . Why does the r mail pay out all this overtime when there all finished miles b4 there time. Throwing money away ,great practice,!
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by postypie »

In an office not far from where i work..there are several managers and even a Dom..prepping them up for walks and even throwing them into various fittings for posties to deliver every day of every week...what manager fail to understand is once they have put 4 or 5 lots of d2d's together and thrown them into walk frames..posties come in the next morning and struggle to throw their walks out due to these very same d2d's ..many a time i have seen postie pull these d2d's out in order to make room for 1st class mail... :Very Happy :nana
Flamunio
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Re: Door 2 Doors!

Post by Flamunio »

BillyPosty wrote:
buzzerram wrote:we have been told that d2d are only done by full timers part timers only deliver them.
I'd like to see that in writing somewhere - all our part timers have to prep our own :roll:
D2D's are to be prepped by full timers.... anyone starting at 9pm (in my office) should only deliver them not make them up... but this never gets done at our office!