Going Home Early

[ScousePostie]

We now have part-timers who are contracted Wednesday to Saturday. It's not uncommon for us to lapse 3 walks on a Monday and Tuesday.

[postslippete]

Says they are also planning on only delivering 1st class Mail 3 days a week to save on costs.

No chance, they'd fail the USO

In addition to this Royal Mail want to introduce another cost cutting policy. This is that on three days per week we would deliver all the mail and on the other three days per week we would only deliver 1st class. This would mean that they could cut costs on the three days when we deliver just 1st class items.


First class mail would continue to be delivered 6 days a week.

Can you imagine what the 'other' three days per week where we would deliver all the mail is going to be like?? What would our finish time be on these days…8pm instead of the usual 5pm?? Because thats what you get when a load of the mail + packets roll over onto the next day.

[rambo1]

Here's another example of why coming in early doesn't work.

Colleague comes in at 5:45 (start time 6:30) to start throwing in walks. I come in at 6:30 and doing the same, throwing in 3 walks. Colleague gets out the door at 9:20 this morning. I leave the office at 9:25. I left the office at 2:05 this afternoon. I pass though this particular colleagues last loop on the way home, so will usually see him just about to finish, and today I did. 2:15pm still plodding. So, what's the point in coming in early?

People go in early for a number of reasons. Old timers who started at 5am years ago still like going in at that time. Some people like going in to have a chat and a brew and some people like the feeling that they have a head start, if you compare your work to someone who has been early it would work out that over the course of the morning you have had to work quicker in a shoter amount of time.

Can't believe some would be willing to go out on strike over pay rises and yet some come in and work 30 mins or more every morning FOR FREE. That's well over A THOUSAND POUNDS a yr they are giving away for just 30 mins a day.

[steve1873]

Those consistently getting back early should be given more IPS or walk prepping to ensure they fill their paid hours.

So you believe that management should be allowed to ignore the IWT and allocate work as they see fit? As a union rep I couldn't allow that to stand.

What happens when the "flyer" is off and some other guy gets his extra hour of IPS because the flyer can manage it? You haven't solved any problems, you've just lost us another hour of IPS.

When walks are consistently going out on overtime and other staff are finishing early, then surely the more logical choice is to send the early finishers out to do part of the overtime during their paid hours, ensuring that the amount of overtime required is cut. This would only need to happen once or twice and everyone would get the message. If you are paid until 3pm (for example) then you are going to be working until 3pm.

I get what you are saying about the IWT and the allocation of work, but the fact remains, managers aren't blind. They see vans parked up an hour early in some cases and as a result we are all tarred with the same brush and lapsing is justified in their eyes.

[Chiphartley]

Its complete inequality, it means that full time employee's are getting a much higher rate of pay per hour worked. Something that new employees are not given, in fact they are asked to work past their time in our office, to finish the work the full time staff refuse to do whilst walking out of the door early.. Its a joke !