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Delivering a duty with 2 days worth of post.

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chaotic013
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Post by chaotic013 »

Hey
So today, Saturday, an entire duty was left, and I am delivering it Monday.
Is there any sort of special procedure for this sort of occurrence or is it just a case of the usual, letting the dom know I'll only be working my time and I'll have to drop a couple of loops?
I only ask as I can see it being an annoying conversation Monday morning - you know how it goes!

Cheers!
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Post by LaggyBand »

Cut cut cut
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When you get in on Monday morning bag it all up and put it outside the DOMs office.
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Post by mattjo1@talktalk.net »

Grow up as long as you work your hours what is the problem.

Why post something like this when it is obvious what you have to do
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Post by arnold cheshire »

How can you be expected to do two days mail ?
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Post by LaggyBand »

OP, if you want the overtime then just take your time and book for it.

If ou don’t want the overtime, but you clear it all as a “favour” cos they’re “really struggling”, then you’ll be the person they put on a duty that doesn’t clear next time.

I speak from experience. Good reserves get shat on more.
jon_gardner85
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Post by jon_gardner85 »

number one wrote:When you get in on Monday morning bag it all up and put it outside the DOMs office.
This.
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Post by chaotic013 »

mattjo1@talktalk.net wrote:Grow up as long as you work your hours what is the problem.

Why post something like this when it is obvious what you have to do
As I said, I'll just work my hours and leave what's left if that's the case, just wondered if there were any official guidelines, RM seem to like this sort of thing, even if they're never put into practice. Just a question, calm down.
LaggyBand wrote:OP, if you want the overtime then just take your time and book for it.

If ou don’t want the overtime, but you clear it all as a “favour” cos they’re “really struggling”, then you’ll be the person they put on a duty that doesn’t clear next time.

I speak from experience. Good reserves get shat on more.
Oh gone are the days where I do favours, and if they're struggling then the manager needs to actually manage better, not my issue!
arnold cheshire wrote:How can you be expected to do two days mail ?
Exactly my point, it shouldn't be expected or just deemed reasonable, hence my question if there were some guidelines or procedure in place to sort out something like this.
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Post by world class male »

arnold cheshire wrote:How can you be expected to do two days mail ?
doms reasoning ....its a 75% call rate on 1 day and 80% call rate on the other, hence a 77.5% call rate so also take lapsing :left:
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Post by arnold cheshire »

You might be worrying about nothing
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Post by centenaryman »

I see some lead sheltered postal lives......lately 2 days mail is the norm in our neck of the woods....got lads scared to have there day off...there walk wont go out.

if you want overtime the next day then its there.....also on the flip side your finish time is there as well.
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Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

mattjo1@talktalk.net wrote:Grow up as long as you work your hours what is the problem.

Why post something like this when it is obvious what you have to do

:arrrghhh :arrrghhh :arrrghhh :thumbdown :thumbdown :thumbdown

In the same vein why the put-down, they asked for advice all you had to do was ignore or answer, no need for the grow up comment.
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chaotic013 wrote:
Exactly my point, it shouldn't be expected or just deemed reasonable, hence my question if there were some guidelines or procedure in place to sort out something like this.
Not exactly just the overrunning procedure, and limit on bag weight and trolley use.
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Post by Seymour Buts »

Say you've got two days work so will be leaving half of the fitting, what I did last time this happened to me. Or take it all and book the overtime.
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Post by miles_peters »

if you deliver it all make sure you get paid for the 4 to 5 hours work already in the frame from Saturday, plus any overtime you do.

equal pay for equal work