Need a transfer asap (Full-Time)

jamesdcody · Post by **jamesdcody** » 01 Jun 2019, 11:29

I am writing this, after trying for the best part of 5 months to get a transfer from Sidcup, Kent to Surrey as near to Camberley (GU15) as possible. Having had meetings at different offices with various Delivery office Managers and many fruitless phone calls, I have now come to the conclusion that Royal Mail and the union are putting my health and safety at risk by not granting me a transfer to an office more local to where I live.
I have also now been told by a colleague, I had to register with Royalmailgroup.com/myjob. This has infuriated me, because I have spent so much time, driving to offices, making phone calls etc, and this apparently was the first thing I needed to do. Not one of my managers or union reps told me about this!

My personal circumstances have changed and I now live 62 miles from my place of work (Sidcup DO). Which is a round trip of 124 miles per day. Not only am I driving this far to and from work everyday having to wake up much earlier than I should, I also have a three month old baby to contend with as well as the M25 and the obvious car maintenance and petrol costs. All this extra driving also puts me more at risk of having an accident.
All of this combined is causing me unnecessary stress and fatigue, and therefore putting my health and safety at risk.

The main sticking point is that I am a full time member of Staff and have been for 17 years. If I was part time apparently it would be simple. Because Royal Mail only offer part time jobs now. For a huge national company I find this policy sickening. I simply cannot afford to drop the hours. I have a mortgage and 3 kids.

I still haven't registered on The windows Log in thing because there is no option to actually register, only to log in. How can you log in if you aren't registered in first place??
If somebody on here can help that would be great.

Cheers

korky · Post by **korky** » 01 Jun 2019, 19:52

not quite certain now, but think the default log-in was your full payroll number and password Delivery, i'm blocked now so can't even look or re-register!
don't think you will have too much joy in keeping FT, possible but it's who you know not what you know,
cwu did me over once when after a transfer for more pressing reasons, if you know the right guy well enough they can help bend the rules, but it means doing the dirty on fellow workmates, remember if you did transfer in as FT you are blocking someone there who will already be there from getting it

rubberbond · Post by **rubberbond** » 02 Jun 2019, 14:16

I know that the union and Royal Mail come in for a lot of stick on here, and rightly so on occasions, however I hardly think it’s fair to blame either for your change in circumstances, unless I’m mistaken ,they don’t force people to move , unless it’s a disciplinary matter, even then 60+ miles is a bit extreme.
From my recollection of the area you have the following towns near Camberley
Aldershot
Basingstoke
Guildford
Bracknell
Wokingham
Windsor
Reading (3 DO’s to my knowledge)
Farnborough
A trip down the A30 is better than the M25)
I don’t know whether they all have D.O.’s but surely one of them can help you , you can always take a lesser hours contract and make it up with overtime and S/A’s. Try contacting the Area Rep see if they can help.

Post by **Navalron** » 03 Jun 2019, 06:07

Camberley were looking for a 32 hour postie about a month ago. The only reason it stuck in my memory was because I did a course at blackdown barracks, deepcut when I was in the forces. Also Aldershot looking for full-time parcel force drivers. You need 7.5 tonne licence but £30,000 per year Monday to Friday with the odd saturday. It's on ROYAL MAIL GROUP JOBS.COM.UK. good luck.

delboy1969 · Post by **delboy1969** » 05 Jun 2019, 12:25

Unfortunately, full-time jobs are a thing of the past for us posties, when I last transferred I had to cut from 39 to 33 and tbh I was lucky to get 33. I normally make the time up when working on overtime but obviously miss out when on leave and the pension.

Post by **POSTMAN** » 05 Jun 2019, 14:21

He needs a 'RoyalMail Windows Logon ID' how would he get it?
James I guess you have to go back to your manager to get one.

postslippete · Post by **postslippete** » 07 Jun 2019, 19:55

I know of a full-time postie that managed to transfer but it only happened because he found a postie at the office that he wanted to work at that wanted to do a straight swap. Its sad that a company as big as Royal Mail don't cater to their employees. Everything is part-time these days and as you mentioned you are not going to transfer to part-time post if you have got a mortgage and kids to support because it just doesn't work!! Fact is a lot of offices are understaffed and need posties but what they really want is to reduce the number of full-timers and increase the part-time ones.

Kernowbabe · Post by **Kernowbabe** » 22 Jun 2019, 04:07

Is this royal mail success factors? If you haven't done a course within the group, you can log in with your pay number and National Insurance number.Google royal mail success factors and fill these details in. If it says you have a royal mail log in (but never get near the computer in your office), phone the helpline number, they'll send you a code for an app, yes you will have to log in on a work of to retrieve it. Try on a Tuesday,speak to a manager,cover managers love the attention, on Monday to see if someone can assist you the next day, June is officially the quietest month lol. It doesn't take long. Good luck.

Post by **Navalron** » 22 Jun 2019, 18:08

delboy1969 wrote:Unfortunately, full-time jobs are a thing of the past for us posties, when I last transferred I had to cut from 39 to 33 and tbh I was lucky to get 33. I normally make the time up when working on overtime but obviously miss out when on leave and the pension.

There was the new 35 hours full-time jobs advertised in RM group jobs.com yesterday. We all know that they are still part time, albeit , better than most but still needing to do another 4 hours to get the full delivery supplement, Xmas bonus ect ect. One of the biggest cons the union ever fell for, along with the pension that's apparently coming, lol. Yeah in about another 15/20 years.

Cedar_Room · Post by **Cedar_Room** » 25 Jun 2019, 19:59

Navalron wrote:
delboy1969 wrote:Unfortunately, full-time jobs are a thing of the past for us posties, when I last transferred I had to cut from 39 to 33 and tbh I was lucky to get 33. I normally make the time up when working on overtime but obviously miss out when on leave and the pension.
There was the new 35 hours full-time jobs advertised in RM group jobs.com yesterday. We all know that they are still part time, albeit , better than most but still needing to do another 4 hours to get the full delivery supplement, Xmas bonus ect ect. One of the biggest cons the union ever fell for, along with the pension that's apparently coming, lol. Yeah in about another 15/20 years.

Full time is now 38hrs,so it’s only a 3hr shortfall. Be interesting to see if we lose the next hour in October

delboy1969 · Post by **delboy1969** » 25 Jun 2019, 20:55

Navalron wrote:
delboy1969 wrote:Unfortunately, full-time jobs are a thing of the past for us posties, when I last transferred I had to cut from 39 to 33 and tbh I was lucky to get 33. I normally make the time up when working on overtime but obviously miss out when on leave and the pension.
There was the new 35 hours full-time jobs advertised in RM group jobs.com yesterday. We all know that they are still part time, albeit , better than most but still needing to do another 4 hours to get the full delivery supplement, Xmas bonus ect ect. One of the biggest cons the union ever fell for, along with the pension that's apparently coming, lol. Yeah in about another 15/20 years.

The full-timers in our office are being slowly reduced to 35 (they went down to 38 late last year and another hour is going in October I think but the pay is unchanged) and there is talk us 33 hour folk are going up to 35, this must be a national agreement I think but then again with all the changes which are going to happen over the next few years who knows where the company is heading!

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 29 Jun 2019, 04:08

delboy1969 wrote:
Navalron wrote:
delboy1969 wrote:Unfortunately, full-time jobs are a thing of the past for us posties, when I last transferred I had to cut from 39 to 33 and tbh I was lucky to get 33. I normally make the time up when working on overtime but obviously miss out when on leave and the pension.
There was the new 35 hours full-time jobs advertised in RM group jobs.com yesterday. We all know that they are still part time, albeit , better than most but still needing to do another 4 hours to get the full delivery supplement, Xmas bonus ect ect. One of the biggest cons the union ever fell for, along with the pension that's apparently coming, lol. Yeah in about another 15/20 years.
The full-timers in our office are being slowly reduced to 35 (they went down to 38 late last year and another hour is going in October I think but the pay is unchanged) and there is talk us 33 hour folk are going up to 35, this must be a national agreement I think but then again with all the changes which are going to happen over the next few years who knows where the company is heading!

They would rather pay extra hours as they need to pay double for two people doing the same hours to make the hours up it's a national insurance thing plus pension contributions.