Quiet week?

[krussel]

Have not finished before 12 noon in about 14 years.

[dblad]

You smashed your Wednesday record,,,this is the postman of the future guys ,,shakes my head

Actually you are right.
I think TNT operate a "best boy" scenario where the time taken by the quickest worker is the time allocated to the duty.
But that aside. If the original poster didn't have any more work, what is he supposed to do?

Do you go to work and do an honest days work for an honest days pay or do you hang it out to make it look like you are working?
No wonder they want to track us by our PDAs if that is how people behave.

Bring on the PDA tracking, nothing to hide here, in on time, break when scheduled, use the LWT on all loops and full use of both bags, no door stepping or other sillyness, i doubt the OP does all or most of the above, so to answer you question....he should do what i do and what every postman should do to protect what we have, no going slow or taking the piss, just doing the job as it's planned to be done.

Love it when I read stuff like this, I bet there's hardly any postie in the country that does it exactly as it should, or as RM say it should be done, because I would bet that you look at mail as your walking, or doing the odd short cut instead of going up every path as you should, even having earphones in is a no no, but if you are perfect and do it correctly I apologise, but if not you shouldn't be preaching to others.

[comeracing]

Well, Tuesday finished walk at 11:40 including lapsing, beat my previous early finish (been postie 15 months) by 15 minutes. Today finished at 12:20, smashing my Weds. record by 35 minutes. No early start, but took break after delivery. DOM just let us go home afterwards, weren't sent out again.
I have noticed this before, when you get a nice weekend people aren't sitting inside ordering crap from feeBay etc. so the knock-on is a quiet week plus people away for Easter. Only 3 door-dustbins too after 7,6,7 in previous 3 weeks. I take it most of the rest have found it quiet too?

beat my previous early finish by 15 minutes you need treatment,this is why royal mail is failing because of stupid things like this,do you were running trainers as well

[clashcityrocker]

I think some of you need to have a serious rethink.
I started on time.
I took my full 40 minute meal relief prior to departure.
I did 1/5th of my D2D. (extra due to BH)
I use my trolley. I scan everything with a barcode. I don't take any shortcuts.
I finished 1 hour early because THERE ISN'T ENOUGH WORK.

What do you do then?

[framusjsx]

been hammered this week, barely getting back on time the last 2 days.

[IloveMYredTROLLEY!]

You smashed your Wednesday record,,,this is the postman of the future guys ,,shakes my head

Actually you are right.
I think TNT operate a "best boy" scenario where the time taken by the quickest worker is the time allocated to the duty.
But that aside. If the original poster didn't have any more work, what is he supposed to do?

Do you go to work and do an honest days work for an honest days pay or do you hang it out to make it look like you are working?
No wonder they want to track us by our PDAs if that is how people behave.

Bring on the PDA tracking, nothing to hide here, in on time, break when scheduled, use the LWT on all loops and full use of both bags, no door stepping or other sillyness, i doubt the OP does all or most of the above, so to answer you question....he should do what i do and what every postman should do to protect what we have, no going slow or taking the piss, just doing the job as it's planned to be done.

Love it when I read stuff like this, I bet there's hardly any postie in the country that does it exactly as it should, or as RM say it should be done, because I would bet that you look at mail as your walking, or doing the odd short cut instead of going up every path as you should, even having earphones in is a no no, but if you are perfect and do it correctly I apologise, but if not you shouldn't be preaching to others.

The real question here is, why are so many OPGs feeling the need to not do the job (especially outdoor) anything close to how it should be done?

Next there will be threads/posts about lapsing outside the summer holidays, time challenged walks being increased in size, more injuries at work etc. because OPGs feel the bizarre need to change how they are working against security and/or h&s policy and/or acting as charity volunteers (by starting early and/or not taking PAID breaks) to make walks appear doable within contract time... Oh hold on a minute, its already happening

[gary1975]

I think workload really does differ from office to office,I've worked in quite a few do's pre and post revision, my office now all they did was bolt two 3.5 hr duties together hence you have full timers on the best rounds away home by 12.30 and they are the biggest moaners about lapsing.

[Darren Bent]

I believe it is better to work as a team in pair than 2 different postman working alone, and I think it save time. Since coming back on full time delivery in last two months, we finished faster than previous system and also less absorbing, and a postperson throw out two walks which make everyone leave earlier. I think it got the thumb up from me but I would prefer to start at 6am rather than 7am.

[bustedflush]

You smashed your Wednesday record,,,this is the postman of the future guys ,,shakes my head

Actually you are right.
I think TNT operate a "best boy" scenario where the time taken by the quickest worker is the time allocated to the duty.
But that aside. If the original poster didn't have any more work, what is he supposed to do?

Do you go to work and do an honest days work for an honest days pay or do you hang it out to make it look like you are working?
No wonder they want to track us by our PDAs if that is how people behave.

Actually a very good answer, glad somebody understands, and quite right. On the way back to the DO, we passed another postie and stopped to have a quick chat. He must've told his colleague he'd seen us, because this colleague has my mobile no. from previous pairing - he rang me and asked "as you are done let me know if the DOM sends you out again, because we are now done and are wondering whether to go to a café or if it's 'safe' to go back?"

It was just ridiculously quiet, like a Friday in mid-June or something - for virtually all of us. As CCR says here, what were we supposed to do? Even if we took our 20 minutes before driving back we'd have still been 90 minutes early to leave the DO. We decided to be honest (unlike the colleague who rang me!!) and show our faces and see what happened. Nothing. We went home. And strangely enough (local mobile masts must've been red hot as word spread we weren't being sent out again) once we were heading home the vans coming back suddenly arrived in a procession in a very short timeframe....

Seriously, we couldn't have done anything to avoid being early - we filled the van, pumped the tyres some even took theirs to the jetwash too. It was just one of those weeks, and I hope you people that have stated on this thread that you had a heavy week get a light one yourselves shortly.

[krussel]

Its a tricky situation. On the one hand a posties law is to finish as early as possible. However in the current climate this will only lead to part time duties.

[bustedflush]

By the way, as a reserve I naturally tend to remember the 'easier' rounds and the 'quicker' people I'm paired with. It's not a case of being a closet obsessive and writing in my little book my finish times all year lol.......
BUT you do tend to remember extremes. Once when I finished with a quick bloke on a Friday at midday, it stood out as exceptional so I remembered it, just like remembering the Wednesday 'heavy' getting done by 13:00 once. Conversely, I also remember a 16:10 finish in May on a Monday when paired with somebody who had no idea how to do a semi-rural and complicated round (we had both never done it before) and it all went tits-up because we were walking bits that apparently were routinely done from the van and getting lost etc. I was fuming and couldn't believe I'd been dropped in the sh!t like that - so I remember it to this day as my worst day and my latest finish.

I guess my point it that I have never seen 3 days as quiet. And no, we didn't use the trolleys because the rounds in this pairing are split into about 10 or11 bags and for each of us and to carry 1-2kg (or one bundle) of mail in a HCT with no packets is frankly absurd as the single bundle would be in your hand anyway! I know we are supposed to use them but common-sense decrees with one bundle in a loop that you don't tow an empty HCT along for the hell of it!

[DB1100]

We left a loop on Wednesday and got done on time,today we took it all and were 10 mins over,most weeks we have to leave stuff towards the end of the week,quite light on big packets tho and only 2 d2ds,I will be finishing on time Saturday come what may,I look forward to the day when we can have an easy day.

[bustedflush]

We left a loop on Wednesday and got done on time,today we took it all and were 10 mins over,most weeks we have to leave stuff towards the end of the week,quite light on big packets tho and only 2 d2ds,I will be finishing on time Saturday come what may,I look forward to the day when we can have an easy day.

Well, from what you people have said, it seems this is a highly localised phenomenon and we just got lucky, apart from Clash who had a similar scenario.

[Judgee]

Well going back to the original post which seems to have turned into a political "do your job properly" debate. I guess you sort of have your answer Busted, the work load varied across the board!

[arnold cheshire]

Well, Tuesday finished walk at 11:40 including lapsing, beat my previous early finish (been postie 15 months) by 15 minutes. Today finished at 12:20, smashing my Weds. record by 35 minutes. No early start, but took break after delivery. DOM just let us go home afterwards, weren't sent out again.
I have noticed this before, when you get a nice weekend people aren't sitting inside ordering crap from feeBay etc. so the knock-on is a quiet week plus people away for Easter. Only 3 door-dustbins too after 7,6,7 in previous 3 weeks. I take it most of the rest have found it quiet too?

mickey take ?