Backlog

dunposting · Post by **dunposting** » 25 Oct 2007, 15:11

Hows the backlog in your office?

Both rural and walks in our office and the backlog getting worse not better.
Not enough prep time to put it in, so mails still building up in trays under our frames.

Still doing the job properly...

pisstake.plc

meweavy · Post by **meweavy** » 25 Oct 2007, 15:35

dunposting wrote:Hows the backlog in your office?

Both rural and walks in our office and the backlog getting worse not better.
Not enough prep time to put it in, so mails still building up in trays under our frames.

Still doing the job properly...

pisstake.plc

backlog is getting worse in our place,for some reason we are getting all the sorting offices work on top of the work they normally give us,ie we are now cutting and tipping aswell as segging and sorting..

so can anybody tell me if the sorting offices are still on strike,or have they been closed down,we are getting more work from the sorting offices then we did before these strikes.

chromium05 · Post by **chromium05** » 25 Oct 2007, 15:43

^^ Could be because one or two of the "illegitimate" sorting offices ( the ones staffed entirely by casuals) were shut down, for not having licences, so the work is being shunted to legit sites creating more for them and filtering down?

Our DO is filled to the brim. We have been sorting until 8:45 - 9:00 every morning this week. Prep takes me until 12 - 12:30 then I go out with 1 bag, having 1 and a half sent out. If I have to cut off, I take back what can't be delivered to add to the work still in the frame. We have some casuals coming in now at 7am and taking the previous days mail straight out so I have an empty frame to fill again.

Then it's the same thing - sort and prep - out at 12 noon or 12:30 back at 1:50.

Their rules......

Oh...and next week, I am "IN" all week, which means sorting from 06:15 to 13:50 to try and clear the mailsort. Some of the frames still have 15 trays of mailsort flats from the strikes.

Should be fun as standing doing sorting ufcks my upper back, so 7.5 hours a day for 5 days stood sorting will have me off again. They know this as I am currently awaiting a stage 3. Tried to talk to manager to sort something out but got the usual "Come and see me later" routine. Funny how out of 75 posties, I'm the only one to be kept in. For a week.

meweavy · Post by **meweavy** » 25 Oct 2007, 15:47

chromium05 wrote:^^ Could be because one or two of the "illegitimate" sorting offices ( the ones staffed entirely by casuals) were shut down, for not having licences, so the work is being shunted to legit sites creating more for them and filtering down?

Our DO is filled to the brim. We have been sorting until 8:45 - 9:00 every morning this week. Prep takes me until 12 - 12:30 then I go out with 1 bag, having 1 and a half sent out. If I have to cut off, I take back what can't be delivered to add to the work still in the frame. We have some casuals coming in now at 7am and taking the previous days mail straight out so I have an empty frame to fill again.

Then it's the same thing - sort and prep - out at 12 noon or 12:30 back at 1:50.

Their rules......

that doesnt even make sense to do it that way...all it takes is a bnight shift and afternoon shift for a few weeks and it will probably be done..but if management come up with stupid schemes like that or in our case dont give a s**t then why should we.

smudger54 · Post by **smudger54** » 25 Oct 2007, 15:56

Its not just strike backlog but also network07 is a major disaster. The person who set these runs on PARAGON need to have a major rethink

Run times to short so enticeing drivers to break the sped limits

and best one of all some of our dutys were found to have illegal breaks under EU drivers laws

Not all backlog but some is.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 25 Oct 2007, 15:59

Smudger are you sure that's a royal mail unit its very tidy..

mrlovepantsuk · Post by **mrlovepantsuk** » 25 Oct 2007, 16:31

our do is mostly cleared everyday, there are only about 5 or 6 of us leaving mail. i have had to leave about 100 houses the last couple of days because we can only book half hours ot. my day off today so i`m not sure if it has been cleared or not.

dunposting · Post by **dunposting** » 25 Oct 2007, 17:13

Not sure what you mean but..

Our last van needs to be in by 6.50am at latest.

Its arrived this week at 7.20ish. This causes walk sorted to miss and packets. The firms walk sorted misses because it can't be sorted in time.

Still there's all next week untouched for someone with a brain to sort it.

Door to Doors back next week.

Ilovemyjob · Post by **Ilovemyjob** » 25 Oct 2007, 18:12

Doesn't seem to be getting any better at our place. Each day I clear a few trays of week old undated shite and end up with two fresh trays of undated streamed out of that mornings work. In other words I have a constant, slow moving backlog of about 8-10 trays of stuff just for my walk. Don't mind though. Now that, in our office, we've got clearly marked goalposts of when to start tieing up and when to take your break - it takes a lot of the pressure off you.

I've been coming in at my time (6am) for years, and never going over my time, but I must admit I've been a bit vague about taking my break (can't drive so don't use a car obviously) - never again though. It was nice to see so many of my colleagues starting at the right time for a while, but inevitably that lasted about 3 f***ing days as usual and they're all back to their nice 5 o'clock unpaid starts now - and I'm back to being the last bloke to leave the office every bloody morning. So much for solidarity. No wonder we're f****d with offices like mine. Our manager is more on our side than some of the postmen there!

Post by **the beautiful bd south** » 25 Oct 2007, 18:44

A few delivery offices in our area are not taking anymore mail untill they have cleared the backlog....

West Bradford and Shipley to name 2.

all because they are doing the job properly...
They put some offices to shame

hooniebagoonie · Post by **hooniebagoonie** » 25 Oct 2007, 19:20

our dim and his sidekicks having been managing the mail at our D/O really well until today......we walked into mountains of mailort today and as there in a panic about us cutting off we were told to do whatever we could until 9.15 and then bag up for the drivers..... i have 2 full trays of M/S under my frame for tomorrow and we have been told to expect more of the same so at lsat the backlog is coming to our office

in the words of the Strawbs......you wont get me im part of the union till the day i die

stuartG81 · Post by **stuartG81** » 25 Oct 2007, 20:18

im sure we cleared a good bit of ours today, didnt finish until 4!

thekiddykid · Post by **thekiddykid** » 25 Oct 2007, 20:41

Still chaotic here. We are sorting from 6 until around 8 ( do have staff in from 5 on SAs). No set time for mail arriving in our DO at the moment during the sorting period ( a truck load arrived at 7.50 yest morning) and was promptly pushed into the ever expanding corner of yorks!! Walks are struggling to be covered on OT

, full timers rolling back at3.30

and mail piling up

. Oh happy days

johnnyp · Post by **johnnyp** » 26 Oct 2007, 17:55

4 Walks out of 32 with a backlog,the rest plus 4 firms deliverys are clear

Post by **POSTMAN** » 29 Oct 2007, 22:03

Came in today after a week off,yorks all over the place,and out in the yard.
Hours have been put in not sure many want it tho.

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network07..

do's not taking mail

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