I came back to work after a week off and have noticed that a new piece of kit has been introduced. Its a yellow metal plate that fits over a packet frame, and is supposed to be a way of ensuring only certain size packets can go into the bag. Before this anything over shoe box size was given to the van drivers to take. The problem is the new piece of new kit lets virtually anything through, and managers are using it to browbeat posties into taking more and more packets. I will try and get a photo of it to try and make more sense of what I have said, but in the mean time has anyone else seen something fitting my description?
Fluke wrote:I came back to work after a week off and have noticed that a new piece of kit has been introduced. Its a yellow metal plate that fits over a packet frame, and is supposed to be a way of ensuring only certain size packets can go into the bag. Before this anything over shoe box size was given to the van drivers to take. The problem is the new piece of new kit lets virtually anything through, and managers are using it to browbeat posties into taking more and more packets. I will try and get a photo of it to try and make more sense of what I have said, but in the mean time has anyone else seen something fitting my description?
I've had packets no bigger than a hardback book which contain machine parts, so it shouldn't just be a matter of size.
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if they start that shite they can send a van driver out to collect all the packets that are getting 739 i ll not be carrying bags of packets all over my run they have nt got a clue all these people and thier new ideas
mark21 wrote:We got a shoe box through one of these plates, it is a very clever design. We rung our area rep abou tthe plate and he never heard of them.
I do packet sorting on DBF but I have neither seen nor heard of them until now. It would be handy to see one though - how do they get their bags off?
mark21 wrote:We got a shoe box through one of these plates, it is a very clever design. We rung our area rep abou tthe plate and he never heard of them.
I do packet sorting on DBF but I have neither seen nor heard of them until now. It would be handy to see one though - how do they get their bags off?
mark21 wrote:We got a shoe box through one of these plates, it is a very clever design. We rung our area rep abou tthe plate and he never heard of them.
I do packet sorting on DBF but I have neither seen nor heard of them until now. It would be handy to see one though - how do they get their bags off?
You are obsessed
Yep - fell in there right enough - are my feet showing?
put them all in your pouch or bags and when you run out of room for storage demand rv meetings with your manager to get your next bag and pouch off all the p739 items,sticking to bag wights etc etc,we had them last year and they lasted a week
Forget what the screws say or do,it has to depend on your driver and you.
Before i went driving my guy was a diamond,he would come round our frames and take stuff if he saw it was too big,and even go through our packet bags as well.
Now that i am driving i do the same.
The relationship with my 4 walkers is very good and we all help each other out.And so does the other drivers and walkers.
In fact there is a good togetherness in my office and this helps.
Working together and scratching each others backs can make the job more bearable.
We've been 'Doing the job properly' since May so getting time out of the job is not an issue anymore and this helps.
Help each other out,chill,and do the job properly,it's the only way.
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It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been. My BFF Clash The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
POSTMAN wrote:Forget what the screws say or do,it has to depend on your driver and you.
Before i went driving my guy was a diamond,he would come round our frames and take stuff if he saw it was too big,and even go through our packet bags as well.
Now that i am driving i do the same.
The relationship with my 4 walkers is very good and we all help each other out.And so does the other drivers and walkers.
In fact there is a good togetherness in my office and this helps.
Working together and scratching each others backs can make the job more bearable.
We've been 'Doing the job properly' since May so getting time out of the job is not an issue anymore and this helps.
Help each other out,chill,and do the job properly,it's the only way.
Wish you were my driver, my drivers a fkin c***! everything you throw at him he leaves in your drop off bags! thats if you manage to get out before he notices them, also this is how pathetic he was, i had a shoe box size parcel to his own house, he gives me o, somone will be in, there probly expecting it, what takes the piss even more he pulls up in his royal mail van, just before i got to his door and said, i will take that parcel you have got for me! i could have bloody swung for him!
they have introduced this metal contraption (which almost anything fits through ) at our place!!!! no agreement with the union, so whats new!!! our dum says it was designed by a postman........... must be one who drives and has not had a bag on his back for years as almost any large packet fits through!!!!
Tell ya wot... If your driver is a dickhead and plays up... Just stick ya packet in a drop bag or sack and have it dropped off at the address... Leave it on the packet table or area and then the w****r cant moan... Or it goes with the bag droppers....
IF ITS TO HEAVY OR BIG... PUT IT OUT.. DELIVERY BODS CARRY ENOUGH...
VANS ARE THERE FOR THE PURPOSE OF TAKING THE BIGGER PACKETS AND PARCELS....
Before this anything over shoe box size was given to the van drivers to take. The problem is the new piece of new kit lets virtually anything through, and managers are using it to browbeat posties into taking more and more packets. I will try and get a photo of it to try and make more sense of what I have said, but in the mean time has anyone else seen something fitting my description? 
