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First Cardiff DO with specials, now Edinburgh South East DO find out how to fill out P739's

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It was a proud day on RMC for our Cardiff colleagues who with the help of WCM worked out how to deliver specials...
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Now our colleagues at Edinburgh South East delivery office move into the RMC hall of shame sorry fame for working out how to fill out a P739 card properly, with a Brucie (rip) bonus for staff as morale has risen because of their actions...

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Success is on the cards for Edinburgh South East delivery office after the number of P739 complaints was slashed.

Weekly team talks focus on the importance of filling in ‘Something for you’ cards correctly, and of achieving successful deliveries first time.

These reminders, coupled with performance updates and positive encouragement from senior colleagues, has seen P739 complaints drop while team morale has risen.

The work at Edinburgh South East was spearheaded by delivery office manager Ricky McLuckie with support from managers.

Zoran Buzarovski, assistant manager, said positive engagement has been key to improving performance and the team’s achievements are celebrated.

‘We post examples of good practice on the office noticeboard and we demonstrate to colleagues what should and should not be on the card,’ said Zoran.

‘And the workplace coaches have been involved in one-to-ones with those who have fallen below the standard.

:funneh ‘People have been encouraged to do their job and have been much happier.’ :left:

Colleagues have started using With your Neighbour slips more often. This gives a clearer message for our customers (where the feck the fecken package is)and is a lot quicker for staff to complete accurately.

And when a complaint does come in, Zoran said the team will always use it as an opportunity to further improve - ‘We want to make sure that we provide a great service for our customers every single time.’

Next week, an unnamed DO will enlighten us as to how to collect their packets bags from their drop frame.
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Bore off
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Am I late for April fools day,or early for this year's how much can we patronise the workforce,before they tell us to piss off award?
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Hahahaha
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We had the same success in our office after a weeks intensive training on how to use an elastic band properly.
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97gaz wrote:The thing is, some people can't be bothered to even fill a card in properly. I do the counter and my heart sinks when it's from certain areas. At least once every day I'll have to apologise to a customer and take their phone number because I can't find their fecking parcel. Specials left in bags,specials left in vans,packets given to neighbours after the card has went in,packets left on the frame on return with no stickers on so it ends up going back out again. It's not patronising training those members of staff.

It's incredibly irritating and makes us look so unprofessional.
The Two Couriers of the Apocalypse that haunt delivery are named Ignorance and Laziness. The latter are just those that don't give a toss. The former, though, are mostly people that never received proper training - most likely from the latter. I was six months in the job before I was shown how to fill one out fully.
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