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Re: Special Deliveries

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trevjim wrote:Just scan as not delivered before 1pm and then scan as delivered when you get there.

But that cancels out the 1st scan
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Re: Special Deliveries

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Trawler127 wrote:
trevjim wrote:Just scan as not delivered before 1pm and then scan as delivered when you get there.

But that cancels out the 1st scan
All scans are recorded so one scan won't cancel out another
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Re: Special Deliveries

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trevjim wrote:Just scan as not delivered before 1pm and then scan as delivered when you get there.
Known as a P45 scan in some places.
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Re: Special Deliveries

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Just f***ing cut off from your route and make sure all specials are done before the allotted time.
This is what should be going on,it's not hard is it?

Also some offices have duties take specials that could fail and do them before the allotted time.
Again,it's not hard is it?

If there is a regular problem then get together as an office with management and sort it out.
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Re: Special Deliveries

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in this day and age, specials shouldnt exist. at least not with a time limit
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Re: Special Deliveries

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ysbrydtawel wrote:
wotashitjob wrote:if we deliver a Special after 1pm
wotashitjob wrote:Surely the gaffers need to look at why people are delivering specials after 1pm.
Am I missing something? You simply don't deliver specials after 1pm. Ever. No exceptions. The sender paid for the service because it is vital that the item arrive before 1.
Unless it is a Saturday and the SD item does not have a SG sticker.

Yet we get "cry wolf" reminders on our PDAs about all SD items must be delivered by 1pm, even on a Saturday.

If only the people paying for SG premium knew what was going on, they should be getting a price difference refund at least!
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Re: Special Deliveries

Post by ysbrydtawel »

True, but senders get told specials aren't guaranteed to be delivered on a Saturday unless they pay for the SG service.

I don't know about other DOs, but we deliver every special we get on a Saturday regardless of whether it has a sticker on it or not.
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Re: Special Deliveries

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trevjim wrote:in this day and age, specials shouldnt exist. at least not with a time limit
So nobody, anywhere ever has reason to receive anything by lunchtime ? :shock: Really ? :crazy:
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indio
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Re: Special Deliveries

Post by indio »

wotashitjob wrote:We were told the other day if we deliver a Special after 1pm we should use the old signing cards and not the PDA
We got told to scan the item as "Inaccessible" if we thought that we'd go over 1pm. Any scan AFTER 1pm is now conduct code.
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Re: Special Deliveries

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indio wrote:
wotashitjob wrote:We were told the other day if we deliver a Special after 1pm we should use the old signing cards and not the PDA
We got told to scan the item as "Inaccessible" if we thought that we'd go over 1pm. Any scan AFTER 1pm is now conduct code.
Ask your DOM to put that in writing. If the customer complains, higher up will be able to see from the GPS data if delivery had actually been attempted. SG specials are kinda pointless really as the system doesn't care if it's a SG or not, it just sees any item not attempted after 13:00 as a failure. Also if we were to stop delivering specials that didn't have SG stickers on a Saturday, another courier would deliver them instead and we would risk the customer deciding to move all their special traffic over to the other courier.
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Re: Special Deliveries

Post by Mezza »

Had this going on in my DO a while ago.
Also had the DOM asking me to scan tracked items appearing as outstanding on the first time delivery report as collected !

I got onto whistleblowing and was told that all of this is complete fraud and is now the subject of a national investigation.

Also rumours of staff and even a DOM losing their jobs over this type of tihng.


Don't do it - simple.
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