What would happen on 5 day week ?

[IloveMYredTROLLEY!]

Rather than reducing to 5 delivery days per week, which would cost ~16% of the current jobs, what if we all had our contract hours reduced to the equivalent of 7 hour days?

Some full timers have been striving for 35 hour weeks for years!

If RM really believe they can save hours because of changes happening throughout the country, get them to put money where there mouth is...
Small scale buy downs to lower contract hours
Much better overtime incentives for when 7 hours is not enough eg. at least 125% contract hourly wage

RM get their savings if they really are there; when overtime is justified we are rewarded better than present; far fewer jobs lost (and far less redundancy money paid out); RM keeps more of its most experienced OPGs.

[clashcityrocker]

Small scale buy downs to lower contract hours

A few (taxable) grand to take a 10% pay cut?
I can't see that being popular.

[hammers67]

its not if but when!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[datasaint]

1, Start by scrapping first/second class, would save a ton of money/time segregating mail, only have a universal service.

2, Keep six day a week deliveries, but houses only get mail every second day in a rolling pattern, e.g. Mon/Weds/Fri/ - Tues/Thu/Sat so on.

You reduce the man power needed as you could half the walks that go out the office in any one day, you increase efficiency by only visiting an address with 2 days worth of mail.

3, Introduce a Sunday packet service to satisfy customer demands.

If RM did this the share price would rocket.

[clashcityrocker]

2, Keep six day a week deliveries, but houses only get mail every second day in a rolling pattern, e.g. Mon/Weds/Fri/ - Tues/Thu/Sat so on.

That is getting on for 50% of delivery staff out of a job.

[gb93]

1, Start by scrapping first/second class, would save a ton of money/time segregating mail, only have a universal service.

2, Keep six day a week deliveries, but houses only get mail every second day in a rolling pattern, e.g. Mon/Weds/Fri/ - Tues/Thu/Sat so on.

You reduce the man power needed as you could half the walks that go out the office in any one day, you increase efficiency by only visiting an address with 2 days worth of mail.

3, Introduce a Sunday packet service to satisfy customer demands.

If RM did this the share price would rocket.

So everybody on deliveries would be part time
Suppose this is the natural progression from a 5 day week.
Its all about the share price

[datasaint]

the week

2, Keep six day a week deliveries, but houses only get mail every second day in a rolling pattern, e.g. Mon/Weds/Fri/ - Tues/Thu/Sat so on.

That is getting on for 50% of delivery staff out of a job.

The business needs to lean up, letters are declining year on year. Not having as many staff walking means a surplus can take on packets the growing side.

Revert back to the 6 day working week and you could keep the FT positions.

[SpacePhoenix]

3, Introduce a Sunday packet service to satisfy customer demands.

That's going to happen eventually whether we like it or not, along with the scanning of every last item passing through the network

[Patti-Ann]

I job share ('on' Thursday to Wednesday, 'off' Thursday to Wednesday) so a five day week could see an end to that.

If we work five days, I wonder how they would work out my 23.5 house a week. Three days at 4.5 hours and two days at 5.00 maybe?

At the moment I do park and loop with a driver, and our two deliveries take 4.5 hours to complete. If deliveries are to be extended and we spend more time out of doors (deliveries will take longer than 4.5 hours)...will I be able to cut off when my 4.5 hours are up?

I've just thought - maybe one will do a full time shift Monday and Tuesday, plus half day Wednesday. The other half day Wednesday and two full shifts Thursday and Friday. Then swap over...

[IloveMYredTROLLEY!]

PT 22.5hr OPGs before Delivery Methods revision at my depot typically worked 1000-1430, five days a week, supposedly delivery only (prep all done by FT before they arrived).

However, on Saturdays, the PT staff were often encouraged to come in for 1 hour of prep overtime... Strange that, as if it (double prepping by FT) was not really working and managers were concerned about cut offs all over the shop.

[bluealbert]

Bloody hell this is all if's and but's don't depress yourselves even more Nobody knows what's going to happen in the future same as every other job chill out

[terry2972]

Very true why worry about something we have no control over have another drink lol

[bluealbert]

Very true why worry about something we have no control over have another drink lol

Too true mate

[halfull]

Bloody hell this is all if's and but's don't depress yourselves even more Nobody knows what's going to happen in the future same as every other job chill out

best thing ive read in this thread! im sure some postmen live royal mail & nothing else!! Always worrying & surmising whats going to happen, just do your hours, do overtime if you want to & do the job right & let the big wigs take care of the rest!

[interesting]

I think there are about 120 000 posties.
A move to a 5 day week would remove the need for 1/6th of the workforce.

Whilst I agree , the number of people employed by Royal Mail is continually falling and I suspect they won't care about that to much
I wonder how many people we have lost in the last 20 years