SpacePhoenix wrote:
They can see if you go off-route. I suspect that with the new thing that's been brought in, it might flag up automatically when someone goes off-route
I suspect you're right, and it's in real time. I got questioned about if I'd been somewhere just off route yesterday (which the manager obviously knew I had) which in my defence I spent about 10 mins at if that and I was getting food.
Either that or I got reported by a fellow postie or woe betide a manager saw me. Wound me right up I have to admit.
should have said you had gone forra shite my driver does it regular if he's caught short. buggers off to tescos (which is off route) for a crap.
SpacePhoenix wrote:
They can see if you go off-route. I suspect that with the new thing that's been brought in, it might flag up automatically when someone goes off-route
I suspect you're right, and it's in real time. I got questioned about if I'd been somewhere just off route yesterday (which the manager obviously knew I had) which in my defence I spent about 10 mins at if that and I was getting food.
Either that or I got reported by a fellow postie or woe betide a manager saw me. Wound me right up I have to admit.
should have said you had gone forra shite my driver does it regular if he's caught short. buggers off to tescos (which is off route) for a crap.
claretandblue wrote:Don't carry mine with me, never been questioned about it too.
Me neither. If I don't have anything to scan on that loop, the PDA is left behind. I have enough to carry without that contraption being in the way.
how can you know if you don't have a scannable item in your bundled up loop? its not just packets. you could have a recorded 'signed for' letter or even some normal letters or small items in the bundle with a 2d barcode on. we've been told off management that we must have our PDAs on us at ALL times. mine goes on me wrist.
claretandblue wrote:Don't carry mine with me, never been questioned about it too.
Same here. Mine is where it's meant to be most of the time - in it's dock.
SpacePhoenix wrote:With the amount of packets that have got barcodes on them now, I find it hard to believe that there are some loops with nothing to scan
Depends what you call a loop. I might have three houses in a row with no packets. I'll leave the PDA in it's dock, and go up three drives then back to the van. Long drives and/or a packet that doesn't need scanning mean this could take 5 mins +
I don't understand how people can not carry their PDA with them. What do you do if your PDA is "in it's dock" and you get to a recorded letter in your loop?
I stop the van. I pick out all the mail for the next 3 or 4 houses or whatever, if there's a Signed For, I take the PDA with me.
I wonder how long it'll be before RM insist on delivery staff having the PDA on them at all times from when they leave the depot to when they arrive back at the depot, and conduct code anyone who doesn't.
SpacePhoenix wrote:I wonder how long it'll be before RM insist on delivery staff having the PDA on them at all times from when they leave the depot to when they arrive back at the depot, and conduct code anyone who doesn't.
The first part has been happening in our office for a while now, and the management have allocated us all holsters for them. On the second part, well I guess that could come soon, depending on how industrial relations go in the next few years.
SpacePhoenix wrote:I wonder how long it'll be before RM insist on delivery staff having the PDA on them at all times from when they leave the depot to when they arrive back at the depot, and conduct code anyone who doesn't.
been in ours for a couple of years. we don't have an argument to not carry them.
my driver does it regular if he's caught short. buggers off to tescos (which is off route) for a crap.
