I don't think a new Postie needs 6 weeks straight on the same walk....For me, I know a walk well after 4 or 5 days and this is when my speed improves. Yes, the sorting of letters is going to take a long time to learn, but as a part-timer you should not have to do much sorting. I guess it's not until you have been a part-timer for a very long time that you fall into automatically knowing each slot on every frame, or it's not until you become a full-timer and have your own walk or a set number of walks assigned to you.
It is definitely frustrating trying to find a slot on the frame and first of all you can't find the road you want....you find it...then realise it's all split up across the frame into 5 or 6 different sections and it always seems to be the last and 6th section of it that you find. Then your fellow Postie comes along and looks at each letter and boom it goes into its slot within seconds.
The things I don't like about moving around are:
1. Who am I going to be put with....if they are impatient and petulant then I know I'm going to get stressed out and more likely to make a mistake or get into an argument. I have seen this a little bit, but I know it's probably a matter of time before I get put with someone who is constantly stressed and frustrated because he's desperate to get home to watch Rachel Riley on Countdown.
Sometimes a manager will tell you to do something then the Postie will tell you not to as we don't have time....and you are like a sausage in a george foreman grill.
2. What's the frame like....none of these frames I have been put on so far are bagged up in a logical manner. You grab this from there, that from here, this bit goes backwards, this bit you give to the other Postie. It's not been that much of a big deal, as long as it's written down clearly how to bag it up - it's fine. I have found that the shelving for the small parcels can be unorganised in that it is badly marked up to the point that I actually feel like buying a label printer and clearly marking the frame up myself.
3. The Postie I am with never has my frame completed, leaving me with parcels and letters to sort. I feel it would be better if when I come in they have already prepped my frame with just the redirections and bagging up left for me to do. As my frame is not prepped when I come in it usually results with my fellow Postie bagging up 10 minutes before me, so they are waiting for me or come along in a huff and take over from me and bag up the last 2 or 3 bags.