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anybody else do this ?

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comeracing
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anybody else do this ?

Post by comeracing »

ive done this for 15 + years when im putting mail in my frame I always put flats and mags in first then sequenced mail and letters last,so the big stuff on the right of your slot and smaller stuff on the left,i find this a lot easier on delivery less fumbling about etc,not many do this in our office letters are often tucked behind a4 size flats etc,anyone else out there do my method :thumbup
bensonhedge
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Re: anybody else do this ?

Post by bensonhedge »

large flats at front,letters at back,and 6 lots of d2d mixed up amongst it....well thats how i prep my partners loops :Very Happy
music4essex
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Re: anybody else do this ?

Post by music4essex »

if I have a A4 size letter it goes at the back for that address

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doorstepped
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Re: anybody else do this ?

Post by doorstepped »

D2D goes on RHS of slot, easy way to find next house.
Bahia Feliz
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Re: anybody else do this ?

Post by Bahia Feliz »

Letters in 1st on the left flats/mags right.
Lounge Lizard
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Post by Lounge Lizard »

None of you got two addresses per slot then ? :sad:
DGP1
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Re: anybody else do this ?

Post by DGP1 »

Seems like these people don't have the new ips frames which mix letters and flats in together :nervous
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Lincox
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Re: anybody else do this ?

Post by Lincox »

Letters, Flats, D2DS, PARCELS :Very Happy :Very Happy
Pat Ostman
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Re: anybody else do this ?

Post by Pat Ostman »

I've been doing it wrong for at least eight years then.
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NewPostieUK
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Re: anybody else do this ?

Post by NewPostieUK »

comeracing wrote:so the big stuff on the right of your slot and smaller stuff on the left,i find this a lot easier on delivery less fumbling about etc,not many do this in our office letters are often tucked behind a4 size flats etc,anyone else out there do my method :thumbup
One of the only things I was shown when I started was this. I prepped my own duty and thought everyone did it this way. Now someone else preps my duty and it's infuriating. Now I get flats/letters/door to doors in any order. I end up shuffling them around into the proper order before posting.

One person who occasionally preps my duty even has a door to door at the start, then random letters/flats, then another door to door, then a door to door for the next house, then letters for the next house. Sometimes I find letters inside door to door leaflets.

If a street goes 1, 2, 3, 4 etc, and I get letters/flats/door to doors for No1, then letters/flats/door to doors for No2 then door to doors, then letters for No 5, how do I know which house the door to doors are meant to go? :crazy:
NewPostieUK
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Re: anybody else do this ?

Post by NewPostieUK »

DGP1 wrote:Seems like these people don't have the new ips frames which mix letters and flats in together :nervous
What difference would that make? They still have to be sorted into the duty frame.
Lincox
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Re: anybody else do this ?

Post by Lincox »

The likelihood is that D2ds for no 3 & 4 have been left in the frame to deliver when they have mail other than D2ds.
BernardBresslaw
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Re: anybody else do this ?

Post by BernardBresslaw »

Smallest letter to the LHS and then work my way up - I don't know if it's just me, but I also put stamped and dated at the very front, even if it is slightly bigger, although not if it's a large letter (stays at the very back)

:dork:
Lincox
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Re: anybody else do this ?

Post by Lincox »

Indoor would take up more than 50% of my contracted hours if I fussed and faffed about how mail was thrown in. Whats the point? Only thing I do when bundling up is stick a band around a drop that has a fistful of mail. Saves flicking through out on the walk.
Pat Ostman
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Re: anybody else do this ?

Post by Pat Ostman »

I don't even know how you have enough space to do most of this. Also you must be pretty lucky to have so many single slots on your frame.
Run, rabbit run. Dig that hole, forget the sun.
And when at last the work is done. Don't sit down, it's time to dig another one