New PDA update.

Seymour Buts · Post by **Seymour Buts** » 19 Jun 2018, 23:17

They reckon they'll be league tables about neighbour attempts to given it'll know if you've delivered to neighbour or customer.

Have to say we are miles behind other firms, most had this type of stuff years ago but from our point of view it's a pain in the arse with all this stuff being constantly added.

twoloops · Post by **twoloops** » 20 Jun 2018, 04:43

Can't say I've seen a lens on my PDA are we getting new PDAs with the facility to take photos?

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 20 Jun 2018, 05:06

mattycash wrote:Can't say I've seen a lens on my PDA are we getting new PDAs with the facility to take photos?

I believe there is a lens on the current PDAs. Some Postie's won't leave the PDA in the charging carriage because they believe it might be watching them.......

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 20 Jun 2018, 05:09

Xr4 wrote:I can see it ending up we're bringing more stuff back or "accidently pressing delivered". Quite a few times Ive had a tracked saying leave in shed or enclosed porch to find that they haven't got one!

I often cover a rural round and there's no way RM would like some of my customers safe places lol

The most common instance of this is the 'leave in porch' note on some tracked items where you find the house doesn't have a porch. It refers to the occupants previous address where they did have a porch but they have moved & not changed the instruction.

postman123dart · Post by **postman123dart** » 20 Jun 2018, 10:37

we were coached on this yesterday. to be trialled from july 1st,oh joy

twoloops · Post by **twoloops** » 20 Jun 2018, 16:56

I can confirm there is no camera on the PDAs

citypostie · Post by **citypostie** » 20 Jun 2018, 17:06

mattycash wrote:I can confirm there is no camera on the PDAs

We must have special ones then because some have managed to take photos on them already, much to the hilarity of all who saw them

postslippete · Post by **postslippete** » 20 Jun 2018, 17:19

Where I deliver, I don't trust anybody to take in their neighbours parcel

GT85 · Post by **GT85** » 20 Jun 2018, 17:26

can confirm there is no camera on the PDAs

It's the Zebra Sybol TC70 is it not ?

Front and rear camera still or video

I have had the camera on a couple of times before, can't tell you how I did it, I just pulled it out of my pocket and it was on.

My biggest request for the update would be an OFF button for the Satnav.

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 20 Jun 2018, 17:40

mattycash wrote:I can confirm there is no camera on the PDAs

There is definitely a lens on the back and front of the PDA if you look. The new software has been added and it's going live either next week or the week after. I was shown how to do it today. Now all I have to do is remember how to do it. I was shown how to take a photo of a 'safe place', how to not deliver to a 'safe place' if it isn't safe, and the new process if you deliver to a neighbour. That last one is likely to make me try and avoid delivering to a neighbour not that I do it that often. Everything seems to be getting more time consuming when the one thing we are often short of is time.

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 20 Jun 2018, 17:43

GT85 wrote:
can confirm there is no camera on the PDAs
I have had the camera on a couple of times before, can't tell you how I did it, I just pulled it out of my pocket and it was on.

My biggest request for the update would be an OFF button for the Satnav.

I hate it when the satnav comes on by 'mistake'. Very few people seem to be able to turn it off. Postbox accident report is the other annoying pop-up screen.

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 20 Jun 2018, 17:46

postietom wrote:They reckon they'll be league tables about neighbour attempts to given it'll know if you've delivered to neighbour or customer.

Have to say we are miles behind other firms, most had this type of stuff years ago but from our point of view it's a pain in the arse with all this stuff being constantly added.

There won't be a league table for neighbour attempts as its an unquantifiable metric. But I expect there will be trouble if we mess it up

30+YEARMAN · Post by **30+YEARMAN** » 20 Jun 2018, 18:07

If they are not in they get a card, they haven,t given me enough time to mess about with all this shite, they keep adding things on where's the extra time coming from ?.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 20 Jun 2018, 18:30

mattycash wrote:I can confirm there is no camera on the PDAs

really whats this then

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Post by **IloveMYredTROLLEY!** » 20 Jun 2018, 19:26

Wait until you get to read the official pamphlet on this, security of items officially goes out of the window. As long as the specified "safeplace" is under cover and out of view of the general public, you can now follow the instruction before taking a photo.

In the past if it came out I was leaving parcels in unlocked sheds or inside unlocked porches, where anyone could come along afterwards and take the parcels away, I could be disciplined for leaving items in an insecure place.

Now it's absolutely fine, apparently, plus we take a picture to show our bosses all the insecure places we leave items!

Then what happens if parcel goes missing? Does your face fit in the depot? Are you FT or PT?