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Rural Training

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Blue Nose
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Rural Training

Post by Blue Nose »

Any thoughts as what is regarded as a reasonable amount of training on single van rural rounds for someone who doesn't know the area of delivery at all.
We are due to deploy soon and there is a lot of confliction from management on how much training is needed.
daveallum
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Re: Rural Training

Post by daveallum »

Blue Nose wrote:Any thoughts as what is regarded as a reasonable amount of training on single van rural rounds for someone who doesn't know the area of delivery at all.
We are due to deploy soon and there is a lot of confliction from management on how much training is needed.
On all the rurals that I did,I had a minimum of three days training,the first two days consisted of the duty holder doing the driving with me making some notes and delivering some of the mail myself.On the third day,I did the driving and delivered I would guess 90% of the mail.

I also got RM to buy me a local A-Z road map book.
noggin1969
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Re: Rural Training

Post by noggin1969 »

Our s stopped all training , even on rurals. We had our float men having to do their 5 different rural duties blind after our revision. As you can imagine not alot got done and it was left to the duty holder to clear the next day.
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gary1975
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Re: Rural Training

Post by gary1975 »

three days
Lkhardyuk
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Re: Rural Training

Post by Lkhardyuk »

three days , but this was many years ago when RM actually bothered to train their staff!!!!
cheekymonkey91
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Re: Rural Training

Post by cheekymonkey91 »

I had one day