EU polling cards

NewPostieUK · Post by **NewPostieUK** » 18 May 2016, 20:17

spen wrote:The local deliverers in my area are getting 25p per item

On top of £10 per hour?

NewPostieUK · Post by **NewPostieUK** » 18 May 2016, 20:26

tiggle wrote:otherwise its all paid to the person who completes the remainder and who incidentally wont get paid overtime

If they are doing it within their normal working day, why would they get overtime? If not, why the hell would anyone work overtime for free?

simply_the_best · Post by **simply_the_best** » 18 May 2016, 21:08

We are getting 6p for ours, I'd be fuming if I was only getting 3 or 4.5p.

DocketLefty · Post by **DocketLefty** » 18 May 2016, 21:48

How come the price per item varies across offices?

I left mine for the duty holder today, 3.5p an item... 400 items. Not worth the 14 quid

Post by **Morayman** » 19 May 2016, 15:11

We got our poll cards in today. Think the bosses thought they were coming in tomorrow so we were down to lapse today ( that got scrapped ).

Im on a semi rural delivery with 410 stops, I counted my poll cards as i prepped them and had 729. However the DOM told me that he only pays 1.5X delivery points on poll cards so in effect I get payed for 600. Is this correct? he said it was in a national agreement that thats what royal mail pays for poll cards, But when i look it up it just states that it pays between 3p-6p PER item?

Any help welcome.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 19 May 2016, 15:25

Morayman wrote:We got our poll cards in today. Think the bosses thought they were coming in tomorrow so we were down to lapse today ( that got scrapped ).

Im on a semi rural delivery with 410 stops, I counted my poll cards as i prepped them and had 729. However the DOM told me that he only pays 1.5X delivery points on poll cards so in effect I get payed for 600. Is this correct? he said it was in a national agreement that thats what royal mail pays for poll cards, But when i look it up it just states that it pays between 3p-6p PER item?

Any help welcome.

Nope he's talking garbage as well. its Xp per item, not a multiple of delivery addresses. Politely ask to see this new national agreement (it doesn't exist) if he doesn't show it then print off the current agreement (link above) and bang in a grievance.

fishtank · Post by **fishtank** » 19 May 2016, 15:39

Some offices use multipliers rather than count them individually, 2 x the number of calls is normally not far of the mark, you can't count them then multiply them lol.

kookoo32 · Post by **kookoo32** » 19 May 2016, 22:28

The poll cards arrived a day early in our office much to management surprise. We also get paid 1.5 x the number of delivery points. According to my calculations for the recent Scottish Elections our office got 3.3p per delivery point. I imagine it would be exactly the same this time around. At least I didn't have to count the ones for the lapsing duty as they got told where to shove it

Harv12 · Post by **Harv12** » 20 May 2016, 17:52

our office got told once again not to count the cards and we would be get paid 1.6 items per door, so if we delivered 4 item to a certain door we would only get paid for 1 and a half, load of bollocks as most doors get between 2 and 4, whats gettin done about it SFA !!!

weary_posty · Post by **weary_posty** » 20 May 2016, 19:05

Harv12 wrote:our office got told once again not to count the cards and we would be get paid 1.6 items per door, so if we delivered 4 item to a certain door we would only get paid for 1 and a half, load of bollocks as most doors get between 2 and 4, whats gettin done about it SFA !!!

Ask your manager to see the agreement which states this.
Count them up, fill out the form, recieve your payment.
When you get paid for them, do the math to see if you've recieved what you're owed, if not file a grievence

Jimbob07 · Post by **Jimbob07** » 20 May 2016, 20:03

Kings Norton wrote:Guy in my office a floater goes to the frame today sees all the polling cards eyes lights up throws the lot off all done over 100 notes in his sky rocket, poor walk holder back tomorrow ends up empty handed, how mean is that?

I'm a floater at my delivery office and got nothing because the walk holders on their duty didn't give us a fair share and did all their own how fair is that and if you are a walk holder did you offer your floater any

psyCrowe · Post by **psyCrowe** » 20 May 2016, 20:12

Being told ours need done in one day (tomorrow).
Can't claim overtime.
If we work to our time, then we are not eligible for payment for any whatsoever.

It's all false, seems I'm the only one that believes in my office?

Post by **chillout1571** » 20 May 2016, 20:26

I've put my overtime down and I popped the polling card numbers down aswell. Some people didn't put their OT as it looked like an either or situation. However I'm still not convinced they are allowed to do this. The whole situation is ridiculous. I never like doing the OT so I definitely won't be doing any for a long while. Just shows they don't give two s***s about their workers.

NewPostieUK · Post by **NewPostieUK** » 20 May 2016, 20:48

Jimbob07 wrote: the walk holders on their duty didn't give us a fair share and did all their own how fair is that and if you are a walk holder did you offer your floater any

If they are due on the day you cover that duty, then you count them, prep them deliver them and claim for them. Nothing to do with the duty holder. If you don't want the overtime, cut off.