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Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2doors?

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Stella102
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Re: Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2do

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OnAFlyer wrote:
Stella102 wrote:ok get one that opens up and put all the rest inside or fold them over so its essentially one piece. Then i deliver as the frame one row per day and take the whole row with you even if u have no letters since d2d are live mail;
How heavy are your bags when you're taking 5 or 6 lots of d2d in this way?
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Re: Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2do

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Stella102 wrote:ok get one that opens up and put all the rest inside or fold them over so its essentially one piece. Then i deliver as the frame one row per day and take the whole row with you even if u have no letters since d2d are live mail;

Nesting? Tut Tut.
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Re: Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2do

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redneck wrote:
Stella102 wrote:ok get one that opens up and put all the rest inside or fold them over so its essentially one piece. Then i deliver as the frame one row per day and take the whole row with you even if u have no letters since d2d are live mail;

Nesting? Tut Tut.
Perfectly fine as long as you separate them before posting. :whistle
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Re: Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2do

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:Boo hoo! :Boo hoo! I do them in columns which is ok apart from Mondays when I have two columns to do because I have seven columns on my frame.Usually end up cutting off on Mondays because i have 260 d2d drops just on my delivery on a Monday which means a lot longer prep if I have more than one lot of d2ds.I am sure this has not been built into indoor time because it can take up to 45-60 mins just to prep d2ds if I have 4 or 5 lots as its another 1300 items to prep. :Boo hoo!
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Re: Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2do

Post by NewPostieUK »

postiewhite wrote:Hi.
Im a newbie postie and i'm stuggling with some D2D's
I'm guessing that as a new posty you are part time. You really need to check, but it's unlikely you are meant to be prepping door to doors anyway. In my office all part timers have their door to doors prepped for them. Usually anyway..
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Re: Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2do

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When I first started I thought they all had to be delivered in one day, so my bags where packed!
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Re: Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2do

Post by chrisj »

Hello Newbie, just do what TrueBlue suggested - prep them into the frame (before or after the mail) then deliver.

I am surprised people are giving you any other type of advice. D2Ds should really not be delivered separately from another bundle - it makes things difficult especially when you have fiddles ones or have up to about 4-6d2ds.

Furthermore, D2D is now classed as part of the mail - many part-timers have them prepped into the frame already and many FT staff even prep them (sometimes all the rows and columns in one go) beforehand and simply take where they are going for the day.

It should not be a concern, really! Columns better than rows and writing the number of the address of the first d2d where there is no corresponding letter.
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Re: Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2do

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and what is wrong with nesting?
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Re: Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2do

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Stella102 wrote:and what is wrong with nesting?
its not allowed. The Corporate customers complain when you deliver a nested one to one of their staff/spies.

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Stella102
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Re: Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2do

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TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
Stella102 wrote:and what is wrong with nesting?
its not allowed. The Corporate customers complain when you deliver a nested one to one of their staff/spies.

Even on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nhq-JG3GOA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
cool i never knew that, everyone at out office does it including the union rep! shows u how much we know! manager obviously turns a blind eye, anyhow good to know!
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Re: Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2do

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Judgee wrote:
hantsman wrote:
Judgee wrote:Find a dustbin. Insert D2Ds. Retreat hastily! :nana
He asked for good advice,

not to try and lose his job,

Was this suppose to be a joke :oops:

Yes forgive me for giving the guy enough credit to figure that out! :arrrghhh

I will just read the boards from now on. Far too many people on here these days with extremely large bugs up thier @rses! :so there
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Re: Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2do

Post by rhino49 »

Stella102 wrote:
TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
Stella102 wrote:and what is wrong with nesting?
its not allowed. The Corporate customers complain when you deliver a nested one to one of their staff/spies.

Even on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nhq-JG3GOA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
cool i never knew that, everyone at out office does it including the union rep! shows u how much we know! manager obviously turns a blind eye, anyhow good to know!
Nesting is fine for prepping and carrying door to doors with other mail - they usually separate as they fall through a letterbox
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Re: Any good advice regarding sorting and delivering door2do

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They definitely separate when they lob them in the recycling bin.