Busy?

Ozzvaldo · Post by **Ozzvaldo** » 13 Dec 2017, 21:22

Most shared vans going 60-90 minutes over without taking any large parcels at my office. HCT deliveries wandering home up to an hour early.

Post by **CPTNemoUK** » 13 Dec 2017, 23:09

Bernardson wrote:Really Busy Xmas. Mail Centre failed and work arrived late into DO today
Went overtime and still bought some mail back. Got home and had to lay on bed for twenty minutes before removing uniform Had tea/dinner and fell asleep for an hour now up and bright and breezy. It all happens over again tomorrow

My day off tomorrow. so thought I will have a nap at 4.30 so I don't fall asleep too early tonight. Woke up at 7.15

bloody job killing me

thekiddykid · Post by **thekiddykid** » 14 Dec 2017, 05:34

Not been out for 2 days due to bad weather. Nightmare day Wed. Bought loads back cos I am not working in the dark. No managers on site when we got back either!! What a surprise

Strong bull · Post by **Strong bull** » 14 Dec 2017, 08:13

Celgar wrote:Ditto on the twenty years service. Years ago when we had bike rounds and used to weigh each mail pouch of mail we had some accurate idea on the amount of mail we were delivering. Nowadays it's very hard to judge and the figures given out by RM are not to be trusted. Even our DOM has found their figures to be out by as much as fifty percent.
It does seem at the moment that cards are down and Parcels have increased by quite a lot. But after two days without being able to deliver due to one day of snow and one of ice we have loads of mail backed up on-site. The post boxes seem to be full of cards so I think the large amounts of cards are yet to hit us. It's another last minute Christmas methinks. We are going to work on Sunday as well this week I think to try and clear our parcel backlog. Didn't get back from delivery til 1630 excluding breaks for which there wasn't time to take. Another day in RM land.......

Why was there no time to take breaks? Surely you mean you didn't take your break. Start time, BREAK TIME, finish time(or overtime) .surely after 20 years service you should know this.

Post by **woody38** » 14 Dec 2017, 08:34

Strong bull wrote:
Celgar wrote:Ditto on the twenty years service. Years ago when we had bike rounds and used to weigh each mail pouch of mail we had some accurate idea on the amount of mail we were delivering. Nowadays it's very hard to judge and the figures given out by RM are not to be trusted. Even our DOM has found their figures to be out by as much as fifty percent.
It does seem at the moment that cards are down and Parcels have increased by quite a lot. But after two days without being able to deliver due to one day of snow and one of ice we have loads of mail backed up on-site. The post boxes seem to be full of cards so I think the large amounts of cards are yet to hit us. It's another last minute Christmas methinks. We are going to work on Sunday as well this week I think to try and clear our parcel backlog. Didn't get back from delivery til 1630 excluding breaks for which there wasn't time to take. Another day in RM land.......

Why was there no time to take breaks? Surely you mean you didn't take your break. Start time, BREAK TIME, finish time(or overtime) .surely after 20 years service you should know this.

Sometimes at busy times like Christmas there is no option to take meal breaks, if your getting back at 4,30pm, if you had a break that’s 5.00pm

Strong bull · Post by **Strong bull** » 14 Dec 2017, 08:48

There is always time for a break.There may not be time to do all the work but there is always time for a break and please correct me if I'm wrong but by law you are supposed to take a break after 6 hours,especially if you are driving. What would happen if you had an accident and someone got hurt on the way back to the office. First question would be now long have you been working and when did you last have a break.I'm afraid they would throw the book at you,both r/m and the police and quite rightly so.

Postie45 · Post by **Postie45** » 14 Dec 2017, 19:39

you cant complain about no breaks and working late AND willingly do it.... choose one please.

Seymour Buts · Post by **Seymour Buts** » 15 Dec 2017, 19:26

Still chasing our arse after not going out Monday and Tuesday. Starting to catch up, but just that, starting. It's been horrendous the last few days. I'm on packet runs, had 85 drops on one walk today; we're expected to cover 6 walks. On top of that the weather has made going at anything other than a snails pace near impossible.