What does the future hold ???

[Seymour Buts]

As long as the universal service agreement remains in place there's little to worry about. If that does change then it's a different story.

[eastie]

How will clocking on and off work when you come back at 3pm and the office is closed.
Our DOM goes home at 2pm and the PHG shuts up at 3pm
Also what happens when you do O/T at other offices after your own round as some of the docket kings are out till 6 or 7pm and they will be shut as well ?

[eastie]

Hermes trialing robots in london area ,,no point in humans anywhere . Thank fk im old ,cant imagine the future , scary stuff.

Are they foreign robots like my Hermes driver who cant write proper English and you have to guess where he has put the parcel

[cpsteve]

Later starts are coming for sure to catch the internet work (not a bad thing if it gives us more full time job security). The data from PDAs is the same as clocking in and out we are being monitored you can be sure the managers will be under pressure to use this info to stop paying o/t in normal working hours and not paying o/t for going over.

[steve1873]

In our office we have a select few who are relied upon to do the overtime for the managers ... even now you hear them
Debate it in there wages about being wrong so If they can't get it right now on weekly pay imagine what it will be like on monthly ...

No one would be relied upon to keep track of your overtime though, once you're clocking in and out overtime will be automatically recorded and paid. It's always worth keeping a hard copy yourself though, most underpayments when using a machine are down to user error so in this case you would need some way of remembering how many hours you should be paid that month. The last company I worked for only paid overtime in 15 minute increments, so if you were contracted to 3pm and clocked off at 14 minutes past you would lose 14 minutes pay.

As for combining all other payments. They could average how much they are paying out each year per person and add it into the hourly rate for everyone to share. The system they have in place just seems to me that they're giving themselves a lot of extra work by over complicating things. But that's just my opinion.

You raise some good points all of which I am in agreement with. Through the years my experience has been that Royal Mail loves to make simple things more complicated than they need to be.

If you do away with election and door to door payments then the obvious answer seems to be to divide the total payments over the year between everyone by simply increasing the hourly rate of pay. No more counting poll cards and hours spent inputting election payment sheets. No room for errors such as under or over payments.

Clocking in machines should have been introduced decades ago like a lot of other businesses have. Relying on individuals to sign in and out on paper is wide open to fraud. In my office most seem obsessed with 2.05pm or 1.50pm as their finish time even though the law clearly states your break should not be taken in its entirety at the end of shift. In my office the start time is 7am and finish time is 2.30pm or 2.45pm yet so many individuals are signing out at 1.30pm or earlier. My understanding is you can only claim 20 minutes of your break at the end of your shift. The sooner we have clocking in machines the better. Then maybe people will think twice before bunking off early if their pay is docked and rightly so.

There is no such thing!!!