No delivery of election material on Thursday

enskied · Post by **enskied** » 07 Jun 2017, 20:00

POSTMAN wrote:As per this previous post, Royal Mail are concerned that there could be heavy deliveries in the final run-up to the election
It is this lack of advance planning time and the dynamics of this particular election which is bound to create pressure points during the countdown to election day. We are concerned that there could be heavy deliveries in the final run-up to the election.

Please plan for peak days over these next few weeks. Anticipate high volumes of candidates’ mail. It is vital to ensure we do our best to manage candidates’ mail and deliver it on time and to the required specification.
Which brings us nicely to this...

https://www.myroyalmail.com/news/2017/06/one-last-push" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

With just three days to go until the country goes to the polls, we need one last push to do the best job we can in delivering election mail, for our customers and our reputation.

Please ensure every piece of mail is delivered by Wednesday 7 June. Election materials should not be delivered on polling day, Thursday 8 June.

Please know the target date for delivery of candidates’ mail consignment and ensure the campaign mailings are delivered by that date. Deliver what candidates’ mail you can as soon as it comes in. There will always be more the next day, so it’s good practice to clear as much as possible, as soon as possible.

Make sure your delivery performance is updated daily for each consignment on Candidates Mail Tracker (CMT).

Best endeavours

Some candidates’ mailing may have been accepted on a best endeavours basis.

Please make every effort to deliver these mailings and give priority to items that are still within their target date.

Remember – it’s really important that we don’t nest any election material. Please ensure leaflets are placed one on top of the other for delivery.

Thank you for doing a great job throughout this election period – we’re almost there!

Anf the soluton from Management today was......

Leave the IPS, Leave your coded trays. Focus on the election materal , Tracked items and SD's.

Ftrst class cock up.. Roll on tomorrow with two days mail to deliver.

Sir Henry · Post by **Sir Henry** » 07 Jun 2017, 20:01

What rate per item are you on to earn £200 for an extra 5 hrs?

I've due about £96 but seeing as a some of the signing sheets haven't appeared for some of the contracts who knows what I'll end up with.

clashcityrocker · Post by **clashcityrocker** » 08 Jun 2017, 05:35

Sir Henry wrote:What rate per item are you on to earn £200 for an extra 5 hrs?

6.6p/item.
It has actually been a very quiet election.
Nothing from the Green party or UKIP.
1x Lib Dem leaflet, 2 x Labour and 2 x Conservative - all addressed. (though May also did a D2D)
The polling cards are £80 of that £200.

venom · Post by **venom** » 08 Jun 2017, 06:40

We have just been told anything in your boxes can be delivered is this right

Bella2013 · Post by **Bella2013** » 08 Jun 2017, 07:08

If we're not supposed to deliver election stuff today what happens to the stuff I couldn't deliver yesterday? (Flats locked)

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 08 Jun 2017, 16:00

Bella2013 wrote:If we're not supposed to deliver election stuff today what happens to the stuff I couldn't deliver yesterday? (Flats locked)

Killed off as inaccesible.

Did that for a house with a dog at large.

al64 · Post by **al64** » 08 Jun 2017, 20:02

We received addressed lib/dem election material today {thurs} we was told we had to deliver it today and even rolled a York over for tomorrow. Weve even got lib/dem d2d that we have got to deliver as normal roght up to Saturday.

yellowbelly · Post by **yellowbelly** » 08 Jun 2017, 20:04

al64 wrote:We received addressed lib/dem election material today {thurs} we was told we had to deliver it today and even rolled a York over for tomorrow. Weve even got lib/dem d2d that we have got to deliver as normal roght up to Saturday.

We were told under no circumstances deliver any election material today (even re-directed).

world class male · Post by **world class male** » 08 Jun 2017, 20:24

a colleague was told to deliver quite a large amount of election material today, i told him he wasn't allowed to, he just shrugged his shoulders and said he's got to so off he went

loverman shabba · Post by **loverman shabba** » 09 Jun 2017, 10:30

clashcityrocker wrote:
Sir Henry wrote:What rate per item are you on to earn £200 for an extra 5 hrs?

6.6p/item.
It has actually been a very quiet election.
Nothing from the Green party or UKIP.
1x Lib Dem leaflet, 2 x Labour and 2 x Conservative - all addressed. (though May also did a D2D)
The polling cards are £80 of that £200.

thats why your keen to deliver it then. we get a measly 3p per item. reckon we are being conned if some people are getting double that

Post by **POSTMAN** » 09 Jun 2017, 12:24

Royal Mail deluded as per...

https://www.myroyalmail.com/news/2017/0 ... l-delivery" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Steve Cameron has thanked colleagues across the business for delivering an excellent 2017 election mailing campaign.

While the nation has been busy at the polls, our postmen and women across the UK have been busy delivering 30m poll cards, 8.7m postal votes and 131.5m items of candidates’ mail over the last six weeks.

‘I wanted to add my thanks to everyone who has been involved in the 2017 election mailing campaign,’ said Steve, our UK operations director.

‘We had just six weeks to get this right and some challenges along the way. We’ve all pulled together to do a great job.

‘You should feel rightly proud of what you’ve accomplished.’

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 09 Jun 2017, 15:57

POSTMAN wrote:Royal Mail deluded as per...

https://www.myroyalmail.com/news/2017/0 ... l-delivery" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Steve Cameron has thanked colleagues across the business for delivering an excellent 2017 election mailing campaign.

While the nation has been busy at the polls, our postmen and women across the UK have been busy delivering 30m poll cards, 8.7m postal votes and 131.5m items of candidates’ mail over the last six weeks.

‘I wanted to add my thanks to everyone who has been involved in the 2017 election mailing campaign,’ said Steve, our UK operations director.

‘We had just six weeks to get this right and some challenges along the way. We’ve all pulled together to do a great job.

‘You should feel rightly proud of what you’ve accomplished.’

Yet people have not been paid for last weeks election leaflets so has the policy of the future been implemented with post haste looks like Steve Cameron will have a good bonus this month. Probably pay for David's slap up lunch so he won't just be eating fish and chips at the seaside!

ScousePostie · Post by **ScousePostie** » 09 Jun 2017, 22:15

There were some posties who said from the beginning of the election mailings arriving into the office that they were not delivering any. DOM told them that is fine, but it would be down to them to find someone else to do them. One guy took on two walks worth over the campaign plus ones for his own walk.

OnAFlyer · Post by **OnAFlyer** » 11 Jun 2017, 20:50

We just left what we didn't have time to deliver, including loads of addressed leaflets. Our office had thousands and thousands left.

fishtank · Post by **fishtank** » 11 Jun 2017, 21:42

It's a myth that you can't legally deliver election material on or after polling day however I doubt the candidates would be too happy if they "accidentally" found out from someone unconnected to royal mail obviously and definitely not one of us.