6 hour delivery

Post by **wacko74** » 28 Aug 2016, 21:50

Comparing our job to binmen really is like comparing apples to oranges... they're completely different.

Binmen do have much more achievable workloads.
They don't spend the first 2-3 hours of their shift sorting and preparing mail and pkts under high pressure, mentally demanding conditions.
They don't have to be bending or squatting down constantly when outside.
They don't have to walk in an unnatural manner with their body twisted pulling a trolley or constantly having to twist their body to retrieve items from a pouch on their back.
They don't have to be double checking the correct address on mail for every house, whilst also dealing with d2ds, pda's, tracked items, 2d barcodes, specials, recordeds, pkts.

comeracing · Post by **comeracing** » 29 Aug 2016, 19:20

ewancurze wrote:One reason they want to get rid of rest weeks.Then they can say we will "only" do 6hr deliveries for 5 days a week.

mon- fri like normal british workers

terry2972 · Post by **terry2972** » 29 Aug 2016, 21:21

Hopefully I won't ever do a 6hr delivery as I only do a 5hr 30mins day but who knows

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 29 Aug 2016, 21:36

comeracing wrote:
ewancurze wrote:One reason they want to get rid of rest weeks.Then they can say we will "only" do 6hr deliveries for 5 days a week.
mon- fri like normal british workers

I can't see Saturday being done away with. if anything I wouldn't be surprised if weekend duties were introduced for both Saturday and limited Sunday delivery

Postie45 · Post by **Postie45** » 30 Aug 2016, 15:43

yeah itll be a 7 day service for sure. How much mail will be delivered at weekends is debatable but they will definitely want to be in the market for parcel deliveries on weekends, its what customers want.

postslippete · Post by **postslippete** » 30 Aug 2016, 19:14

Our lives are not so different to bin men actually because the more crap we put with, the more crap we are going to get!!

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 04 Sep 2016, 12:48

postslippete wrote:Our lives are not so different to bin men actually because the more crap we put with, the more crap we are going to get!!

We deliver the s**t and they take it away.

Robbo318 · Post by **Robbo318** » 04 Sep 2016, 14:21

6hr deliveries will never happen I don't think. Our office delivers 4.30hrs now so another 1.30hrs work is 1/3rd extra work, so 1/3rd of my office is roughly 9 jobs gone. Throughout the UK could be looking at around 40,000 job losses. The Union will never stand for that. Even if everyone who want EVR was taken into account, I dont think it is still feasible.

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 05 Sep 2016, 19:30

Robbo318 wrote:6hr deliveries will never happen I don't think. Our office delivers 4.30hrs now so another 1.30hrs work is 1/3rd extra work, so 1/3rd of my office is roughly 9 jobs gone. Throughout the UK could be looking at around 40,000 job losses. The Union will never stand for that. Even if everyone who want EVR was taken into account, I dont think it is still feasible.

Anything is feasible with enough carrot's for the donkeys as one DSM once said!