The mileage we walk.

[gand]

the union will do nothing to combat how hard delivery is now,
if this is a chosen long term career now,you had better accept a future with hip/knee replacements in your 40/50's. I already have.

Well I won't just roll over and eccept my health and safe being put at risk

[halfull]

the union will do nothing to combat how hard delivery is now,
if this is a chosen long term career now,you had better accept a future with hip/knee replacements in your 40/50's. I already have.

Well I won't just roll over and eccept my health and safe being put at risk

no offence but you had better look for a new job then. This job is only going to get tougher & tougher as cost saving is the only thing that matters in a privately owned company.
I fear in the future we will have no finish time just a workload for the day that will have to be completed.
The union is getting more & more watered down year on year as senior posties take the money either vr or ill health plus the natural retirement senior posties. The people who understand what we have fought for over decades are all leaving one by one & being replaced by 20 hour staff who cannot afford to strike let alone have time to understand what the reasons would be.
Most of the new starters cannot even afford union subs,they must be barely scraping by.
It may not be obvious to many yet but these things take time & by the time the union realize whats happened it will be to late, & then we will have very little say.
The union should not be allowing any less than 32 hour staff to join, like for like as the last agreement says! What ever happened to 75/25 split fulltime to partime? I hate to say it but our union is lying down & allowing our futures in royal mail to be very dark indeed. They roll over everytime.

[Flashman_]

A responsible company would use private health benefits for its staff to help offset this sort of thing. Unfortunately RM simply does not care about its staff, they can always get someone who will replace the worn out "units". They get away with not even supplying basic H&S protection of sunblock in the summer. Even my local bin men get that, and they are run by a foreign low paying company.

[korky]

the union will do nothing to combat how hard delivery is now,
if this is a chosen long term career now,you had better accept a future with hip/knee replacements in your 40/50's. I already have.

Well I won't just roll over and eccept my health and safe being put at risk

no offence but you had better look for a new job then. This job is only going to get tougher & tougher as cost saving is the only thing that matters in a privately owned company.
I fear in the future we will have no finish time just a workload for the day that will have to be completed.
The union is getting more & more watered down year on year as senior posties take the money either vr or ill health plus the natural retirement senior posties. The people who understand what we have fought for over decades are all leaving one by one & being replaced by 20 hour staff who cannot afford to strike let alone have time to understand what the reasons would be.
Most of the new starters cannot even afford union subs,they must be barely scraping by.
It may not be obvious to many yet but these things take time & by the time the union realize whats happened it will be to late, & then we will have very little say.
The union should not be allowing any less than 32 hour staff to join, like for like as the last agreement says! What ever happened to 75/25 split fulltime to partime? I hate to say it but our union is lying down & allowing our futures in royal mail to be very dark indeed. They roll over everytime.

going off subject, but surely our union bosses know that their days are numbered too, i'd estimate £2500 per year in subs lost in our d/o this year alone, going to get a lot worse too.

[goldy]

14 miles a day is a lie.
With overtime and I mean one long ass shift from leaving my door at 6am to getting home at 7pm I do 30km which is 18 miles.

I have been measuring walks for about five years I have tested my pedometer against my cars milometer
the pedometer actualy measures slightly under if anything .My current walk is up to 14 miles with flex I was on about 8 and a half miles but I was moved I thought the old walk was big .I have done most if not all of the walks and they all vary from about 5 miles to mine at 14 so I dont think this is a lie.

[motherhubbard]

To simply walk 14 miles would take you the best part of 4 hours.

I know I have posted this before and for the life of me I don't know why I am bothering again, but you lot really need to put your pedometers and your gps tracking apps in the dustbin because your outputs are pure and unadulterated rubbish.

[gand]

I agree GPS is total bullocks let use something way more accurate to to map walks like geo route :-)

[Gilly856]

To simply walk 14 miles would take you the best part of 4 hours.

I know I have posted this before and for the life of me I don't know why I am bothering again, but you lot really need to put your pedometers and your gps tracking apps in the dustbin because your outputs are pure and unadulterated rubbish.

You are so right, how can you put forward an argument if you don't have the facts.

[Nondescript]

To simply walk 14 miles would take you the best part of 4 hours.

I know I have posted this before and for the life of me I don't know why I am bothering again, but you lot really need to put your pedometers and your gps tracking apps in the dustbin because your outputs are pure and unadulterated rubbish.

You are so right, how can you put forward an argument if you don't have the facts.

I mapped my duty on walkjogrun.net - I did it as the crow flies, drawing lines that went straight up and down roads and not taking into account walking up and down garden paths. It came out at 9 miles. A mere trifle I suppose, compared to 'romping' bare breasted and cross country in the Falklands islands with big burly men of a similar bent...

[Gilly856]

To simply walk 14 miles would take you the best part of 4 hours.

I know I have posted this before and for the life of me I don't know why I am bothering again, but you lot really need to put your pedometers and your gps tracking apps in the dustbin because your outputs are pure and unadulterated rubbish.

You are so right, how can you put forward an argument if you don't have the facts.

I mapped my duty on walkjogrun.net - I did it as the crow flies, drawing lines that went straight up and down roads and not taking into account walking up and down garden paths. It came out at 9 miles. A mere trifle I suppose, compared to 'romping' bare breasted and cross country in the Falklands islands with big burly men of a similar bent...

You are quite clearly a fool, no wonder posture like you get the run a round, you could lie in till ten and still pull the wool over your eyes.

[greengiant]

To simply walk 14 miles would take you the best part of 4 hours.

I know I have posted this before and for the life of me I don't know why I am bothering again, but you lot really need to put your pedometers and your gps tracking apps in the dustbin because your outputs are pure and unadulterated rubbish.

Indeed. So when people claim that their walks are 20+miles long, are slightly exaggerating. But of course, when I were a lad I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed,, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill (DO?), and pay mill owner (DOM?) for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

[greengiant]

the union will do nothing to combat how hard delivery is now,
if this is a chosen long term career now,you had better accept a future with hip/knee replacements in your 40/50's. I already have.

Well, I'm almost 38, and I'm waiting on a knee arthroscopy. New knee for my 50th?

[Nondescript]

To simply walk 14 miles would take you the best part of 4 hours.

I know I have posted this before and for the life of me I don't know why I am bothering again, but you lot really need to put your pedometers and your gps tracking apps in the dustbin because your outputs are pure and unadulterated rubbish.

You are so right, how can you put forward an argument if you don't have the facts.

I mapped my duty on walkjogrun.net - I did it as the crow flies, drawing lines that went straight up and down roads and not taking into account walking up and down garden paths. It came out at 9 miles. A mere trifle I suppose, compared to 'romping' bare breasted and cross country in the Falklands islands with big burly men of a similar bent...

You are quite clearly a fool, no wonder posture like you get the run a round, you could lie in till ten and still pull the wool over your eyes.

And you are quite clearly in need of a dictionary, proper syntax, moron-proof predictive text, and a cogent argument that doesn't involve harking back to the (imaginary?) days when you hefted HMS Invincible over your shoulder and carried it to the Falkland Islands.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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