7AM starts why??

[two-tired-feet]

as I've been on annual leave and had a letter stuck through my front door
i,m on a 25hr contract (permanent ) 9 o'clock till 2 , been on this for 4 yrs , often asked about more hrs but always rejected , so too increase my income ive got a part time job car valeting in the later part of the afternoons and on my days off , however the said letter said that my start time has been shifted back 1 hr , so my whole day has been shifted ,so technically i wont finish till 3 , and as i live a 30 minute drive from my delivery office , and, also my other job location ,its going to be a huge problem , i can get written proof of my car valeting job ,as its a local garage and legit business.

my question is this , we have had 2 members of staff , that have hrs to suit them ,i.e, hours changed !!! would i be able to use that as an example as to keep my hrs , or would i be entitled to offer to work three 8 hr days to accommodate my other job , anyone else had the same situation

[Darren Bent]

Everyone suffers in changes.

Family having problem with picking up kids / childcare
Football fans with Saturday early kick off or can't go to away games
People with part time jobs
People with partners doing jobs in different shift.
People wait for post longer
People not getting jobs or losing their jobs.

Only winners is Fat Cat managers can save money in short term.

[mclovin]

There is absolutely no reason why EVERY postman and woman can't have a finish time of 1.30pm.

In this day and age we are going backwards not forwards, seems to me those at the top are seeking to piss off their most loyal employees.

[heston]

they do it in the hope u leave great stategy and working well..

[north london driver]

they do it in the hope u leave great stategy and working well..

is it not the unions fault they dont listern to there members
in fact the union is not intrested in there members and the members have lost confidence in the union.

[Bahia Feliz]

We in Salisbury Plain garrisons are starting at Half 7.have been for about 3 years now.

You soldiers have it cushty these days!

[Lee42]

We in Salisbury Plain garrisons are starting at Half 7.have been for about 3 years now.

You soldiers have it cushty these days!

Firstly, Im not a soldier , I am a postman .We used to start at 5am when I started in 2005,yet inept management slowly pushed the time forward to half seven as it is now.

[bandit650]

What about last letter times? 3 on Town 4 on Rural? if we started as late as that we would never make the cut off time,you must be working past that,what about your business customers under revision you can't worsen the service for them so they say.

[Lee42]

What about last letter times? 3 on Town 4 on Rural? if we started as late as that we would never make the cut off time,you must be working past that,what about your business customers under revision you can't worsen the service for them so they say.

Our official times are 0730-1530.Mon-Sat.
All businesses are at the beginning of every walk.
Revision? What revision? believe it when i see it.Been waiting years for this.
My round is a cycle round, still.I have 568 drops on my round.I work till 4 pm ish wed -fri this time of year.

[bandit650]

What about last letter times? 3 on Town 4 on Rural? if we started as late as that we would never make the cut off time,you must be working past that,what about your business customers under revision you can't worsen the service for them so they say.

Our official times are 0730-1530.Mon-Sat.
All businesses are at the beginning of every walk.
Revision? What revision? believe it when i see it.Been waiting years for this.
My round is a cycle round, still.I have 568 drops on my round.I work till 4 pm ish wed -fri this time of year.

We have not had ours either,I have a cycle dilvery 660+ drops with lots of businesses plus residential & still expanding,06.30 starts with varying finish times but most of the time not finishing until 4ish like you,delivery is a bit of a bulky one.

[Bahia Feliz]

Firstly, Im not a soldier ,.

DER!! I was being sarcarsted Lee !!

[thefridge]

Am I the only one who actually likes not having to go to bed at 9:30 so I can get up at 5am and drag my sorry arse to work....?

Probably....

Btw I don't start til 7:50 tomorrow, late night tonight :)

[mclovin]

I didn't mind late nights and early mornings, nowt better than a couple of hours kip of an afternoon.

Not now though, spoiled a good job they did, those pesky kids.

[Mr Rush]

Why the hell do RM want us to start later at 7am??

It's all about "modernisation", if by modernisation you mean a poorer service than that operating in the Victorian era.

[Sharkeyes]

Once all the dickhead policy makers on the golf course have been replaced by the mystery 'elves' who will take over when privatised, all these later starts and finishes will finally see the job off for Royal Mail along with it's name.
But fear not, all is not lost because I'd lay money on it, that once this crowd of billionaire Tory tossers have been swept from power, some one with an ounce of intelligence will realise that what we HAD was actually the best way of doing things and was infact the best tool we had to actually encourage and grow business,
BECAUSE IT GAVE BOTH BUSINESS AND RECEIVING CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY WANTED FROM A POSTAL SERVICE.

2 DELIVERIES (Go the whole hog and have 3 with rotating shifts for customers who prefer early evening when we do collections),

MAIL BACK ON THE PLANES WITH SKYNET.
MAIL BACK ON THE TRAINS WITH RAILNET.
BRING BACK STREAMLINE.
DELIVERIES ALL ON BICYCLE (or modern cyclo-cargo electric assisted tricycle)
NO VANS & TROLLIES
05:45 starts & 13:07 finishes.
stream the mail, refuse to handle 'DSA' and promote our own products instead.
OFFER SERVICES WHICH THE OTHERS CAN NOT COMPETE WITH,
THEN ONCE YOU HAVE GRABBED THE ATTENTION, THE BELIEF, THE RESPECT AND THE HEART AND MIND OF THE PUBLIC AND BUSINESS, YOU'VE CRACKED IT!


But you can wake up now, there's a long way to go before some up top realises that what they think is a 'NEW WAY OF WORKING', is actually one that we used to do anyway some 40 odd years earlier.

"IF IT ISN'T BROKEN, DON'T TRY AND FIX IT!"