dingo wrote:Look what I said I am opposed to their Delivery Strategy.
However the model they are looking would have delivery methods ! It would no longer be paired vans but one person per van. Lots less delivery offices with no frames in DOs as all work will come in pre walk sequence apart from parcels.
Even with a Shorter working week how will you protect jobs if you do not a longer delivery ? Think about it minus meal relief most Full OPGs works around 35 hours depending on your attendance pattern !
With hardly any indoor work apart from loading your van , collecting reg etc how will you split your hours up if you do just a 4 hour delivery ?
I think the key is we have to oppose the introduction of the new large letter automation systems which removes all flats and smaller parcels from being manually done ! Equally that will stop the attack of start times ! However we cannot also turn away work from the bigger companies who want to have items to be put in the mail centres at 3 in the morning when most mail centres do not have any thing in after 7 in the evening with a national network it will not get the same day with the current delivery window !
Remember the strategy is over 5 years , rural deliveries will be different as will offices to remote from where the large letter machines will be put !
The immediate challenge is that Royal Mail could as from January switch to one wave of traffic in over 50% of offices in the UK so this would mean your office will have only parcels and flats in your office before 0900 which means all your sequencing will not be there for you to throw up ! This will obviously be game changing ahead of next years business plan and indeed ahead of the pay negotiations ! We can all say what we don't want but what do we want is much harder !
in the office bench merging is being trialed its not working by a long way! the last i heard it hadn't even been successfully implemented on 1 section in the trial office!
Lets scare the members into thinking their world is about to end so the crap deal we get them doesnt seem so bad! Sound familiar anyone??
i can remember a few years back when we were told sequencing machines would wipe out ips!!! Guess what? we are on the ips longer now than ever!!!!
I can also remember the cwu agreeing to lwt & that we could walk as fast with those as carrying pouches!! Guess what? nobody uses the lwt's as they keep you out until teatime & wreck you shoulder & lower back!
I can also remember the cwu agreeing to planners planning 3:30-4 hour deliveries! Guess what? the deliveries take upwards of 5 hours!!!
Can anyone see a trend of the cwu agreeing to things that turn out awful for us the posties? Maybe if they listened to us for once,came into delivery offices too see whats going on they would realize the job is not done in an office negotiating over coffee its done in the real world with real world problems not an ideal world what all these horrid ideas are planned on!