Another easy shift..

[hampshireman]

We had the usual crap Saturday too. Double the mech we had Thursday, silly packets and of course, crapsing. The usual argument about the crapsing in the end agreed to do it for OT. Needless to say it p!ssed down and for 15 minutes a torrential squall occurred when I had to hide under a porch. Got back 2pm. drenched, muddy and bruised (after a slip) and managers nowhere to be seen.

"Mail volumes are falling year-on-year."

and with the 15 min wait you still finished on time?

[villan]

"Mail volumes are falling year-on-year."

But staff numbers are falling even faster.

[krussel]

And Christmas just round the corner..

That's pretty grim

That's one of the reasons I gave up driving. I took out 7 bags in total (some dropped whilst on the round) on my HCT.

As others have said you have loaded the van wrong. If your going to use perstops then put them at the bottom. TBH you could be suspended for loading a van like that if there was an accident.

[dvbuk55]

As others have said you have loaded the van wrong. If your going to use perstops then put them at the bottom. TBH you could be suspended for loading a van like that if there was an accident.

I don't know if it's a national thing but P&L are forbidden to use perstops on delivery in our office and I don't really know why

[Mr_Pink]

As others have said you have loaded the van wrong. If your going to use perstops then put them at the bottom. TBH you could be suspended for loading a van like that if there was an accident.

I don't know if it's a national thing but P&L are forbidden to use perstops on delivery in our office and I don't really know why

I always use them, after having 3 sets of pouches nicked. Our P&L rounds are nearly all 6 loops so I load 5 loops into perstops and the first loop into a pouch then just replenish from the perstops, means I only have 1 pouch to keep safe from the thieving buggers and I chuck that in the car when I finish work. Never been told I can't use them.

As for the bags being nicked, I can't understand why people need to nick them we were all given 8 brand new bags when the revision was done, and any new starts are given 8 so there should be no need for it.

[dvbuk55]

As for the bags being nicked, I can't understand why people need to nick them we were all given 8 brand new bags when the revision was done, and any new starts are given 8 so there should be no need for it.

Well it's probably those who bugger off home early and don't bring them in the next day

[bustedflush]

We had the usual crap Saturday too. Double the mech we had Thursday, silly packets and of course, crapsing. The usual argument about the crapsing in the end agreed to do it for OT. Needless to say it p!ssed down and for 15 minutes a torrential squall occurred when I had to hide under a porch. Got back 2pm. drenched, muddy and bruised (after a slip) and managers nowhere to be seen.

"Mail volumes are falling year-on-year."

and with the 15 min wait you still finished on time?

No, without a break (which most don't take Saturday) my finishing time was 13:20.

[hampshireman]

We had the usual crap Saturday too. Double the mech we had Thursday, silly packets and of course, crapsing. The usual argument about the crapsing in the end agreed to do it for OT. Needless to say it p!ssed down and for 15 minutes a torrential squall occurred when I had to hide under a porch. Got back 2pm. drenched, muddy and bruised (after a slip) and managers nowhere to be seen.

"Mail volumes are falling year-on-year."

and with the 15 min wait you still finished on time?

No, without a break (which most don't take Saturday) my finishing time was 13:20.

Why no break? Whether or not others don't take it is not relevant. You must take your break. I do believe that that if we don't ... RM will 'negotiate' a paid break away.

[Postie45]

in our office the break is actually put into the duty at the end of the shift on a saturday meaning we finish 40 mins earlier, i dont think any postmen in my office have an issue with this as they want to get away.

[bustedflush]

in our office the break is actually put into the duty at the end of the shift on a saturday meaning we finish 40 mins earlier, i dont think any postmen in my office have an issue with this as they want to get away.

Yes. It seems the popular choice. My point was that Sat was by far our heaviest day of the week. Usually we are out earlier on a Sat but were even later than usual. there were people not getting out until 9:15-30.