motherhubbard wrote:
So what happens in an office that continually fails their D2D?
Managers get a right royal kick up the arse !
It's their job to see that they are all delivered, not tell you how you deliver them.
So if an office has been left to deliver the D2D as they please and some have decided not to deliver them at all, it seems reasonable (to me) for the managers to decide how and when they should be delivered.
If one side of the equation has not kept to the agreement I don't see why the other side should either.
The "do it as you like" part of BT2010 only holds if they are actually completed.
If you don't, then it doesn't.
bustedflush wrote:My rep told me the door-dustbin payment came about because they used to be piecework paid at 2p each or something. So the posties in the South or delivering to the more prosperous demographic had plenty and at say 6 in one week on a 560-slot frame would get them another 80 quid-odd before tax, while the Northerners delivering to the poorer/benefit council estates which are more common up there would, aside from the odd pizza or local supermarket one, get hardly any. So they complained 'it ain't fair' so the CWU sought a standardized payment nationally.
The obvious result was that for a fixed sum, RM would fill their boots and pile as many contracts in as possible to get their money's worth. Which is the situation that prevails today. So the poor postie who delivers to a decent area gets 3-6 a week and receives the same money as postman B who delivers to Skanksville where the odd resident that can read receives only an occasional Domino's, Virgin or Farm-F8cking-Foods one...........
Please correct me if this isn't a reasonably true synopsis of what happened.......
Not heard that one, but then I am based in the North and even now Delivery Supplement does not cover what my average payment on D2Ds was. Thats not even taking into account the loss of ESA. On an average 3 a week I would get £30 + £12 ESA - now I get £23.60.
The Union have always said that RM were going to stop payment of D2D when they included them in the work plan and this was the compromise.
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bustedflush wrote:My rep told me the door-dustbin payment came about because they used to be piecework paid at 2p each or something. So the posties in the South or delivering to the more prosperous demographic had plenty and at say 6 in one week on a 560-slot frame would get them another 80 quid-odd before tax, while the Northerners delivering to the poorer/benefit council estates which are more common up there would, aside from the odd pizza or local supermarket one, get hardly any. So they complained 'it ain't fair' so the CWU sought a standardized payment nationally.
The obvious result was that for a fixed sum, RM would fill their boots and pile as many contracts in as possible to get their money's worth. Which is the situation that prevails today. So the poor postie who delivers to a decent area gets 3-6 a week and receives the same money as postman B who delivers to Skanksville where the odd resident that can read receives only an occasional Domino's, Virgin or Farm-F8cking-Foods one...........
Please correct me if this isn't a reasonably true synopsis of what happened.......
Don't you get bigger tips at xmas?? Its all relative
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
bustedflush wrote:My rep told me the door-dustbin payment came about because they used to be piecework paid at 2p each or something. So the posties in the South or delivering to the more prosperous demographic had plenty and at say 6 in one week on a 560-slot frame would get them another 80 quid-odd before tax, while the Northerners delivering to the poorer/benefit council estates which are more common up there would, aside from the odd pizza or local supermarket one, get hardly any. So they complained 'it ain't fair' so the CWU sought a standardized payment nationally.
The obvious result was that for a fixed sum, RM would fill their boots and pile as many contracts in as possible to get their money's worth. Which is the situation that prevails today. So the poor postie who delivers to a decent area gets 3-6 a week and receives the same money as postman B who delivers to Skanksville where the odd resident that can read receives only an occasional Domino's, Virgin or Farm-F8cking-Foods one...........
Please correct me if this isn't a reasonably true synopsis of what happened.......
Not heard that one, but then I am based in the North and even now Delivery Supplement does not cover what my average payment on D2Ds was. Thats not even taking into account the loss of ESA. On an average 3 a week I would get £30 + £12 ESA - now I get £23.60.
The Union have always said that RM were going to stop payment of D2D when they included them in the work plan and this was the compromise.
Yes, he was embellishing the story no doubt with a few stereotypes and jocularity, but I was led to believe this is basically what happened. So RM is better-off with one simple built-in standardized payment to each OPG and each OPG is treated the same pay-wise. Of course those that seldom get them (especially rounds that deliver to Armed Services estates and some rurals) have been laughing ever since, while those (North or South!) with a round in a more prosperous demographic get smashed with them to pay the former....
Seriously though, I don't think that it's just the D2Ds that you get more of in prosperous areas - but also more packets and therefore heavier workloads on busy days?
However, I'm sure what compensates for the fact that there are probably fewer calls on Towie hill, for example, than in Skanksville?? For example, I got nearly 960 calls on my frame - as compared to, say, a 560 slot frame.
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
bustedflush wrote:My rep told me the door-dustbin payment came about because they used to be piecework paid at 2p each or something. So the posties in the South or delivering to the more prosperous demographic had plenty and at say 6 in one week on a 560-slot frame would get them another 80 quid-odd before tax, while the Northerners delivering to the poorer/benefit council estates which are more common up there would, aside from the odd pizza or local supermarket one, get hardly any. So they complained 'it ain't fair' so the CWU sought a standardized payment nationally.
The obvious result was that for a fixed sum, RM would fill their boots and pile as many contracts in as possible to get their money's worth. Which is the situation that prevails today. So the poor postie who delivers to a decent area gets 3-6 a week and receives the same money as postman B who delivers to Skanksville where the odd resident that can read receives only an occasional Domino's, Virgin or Farm-F8cking-Foods one...........
Please correct me if this isn't a reasonably true synopsis of what happened.......
Don't you get bigger tips at xmas?? Its all relative
Nope! As a reserve I have never ever received a single 'Christmas Gratuity'......
