Next week

Seymour Buts · Post by **Seymour Buts** » 22 Dec 2019, 12:19

Is it gonna be busy next week do we reckon? I'm kind of hoping for an easy couple of days but I suspect we won't be so lucky! Christmas Eve was crap for us last year whereas in all previous years everybody was done about 10am.

Post by **wacko74** » 22 Dec 2019, 12:34

People seem to be leaving it later and later each year for Christmas cards and parcels, I wouldn't be surprised if we get hammered with pkts and parcels mon and tues.

I've also noticed in recent years the pkts don't particularly drop off immediately after Christmas... they're still up at more or less Christmas volumes for a week or two after Christmas.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 22 Dec 2019, 12:40

You can expect there to be a massive increase in the number of SDs and possibly Tracked 24

scoobydo79 · Post by **scoobydo79** » 22 Dec 2019, 12:40

I would think heavy Monday light on Tuesday.

Seymour Buts · Post by **Seymour Buts** » 22 Dec 2019, 12:47

wacko74 wrote:People seem to be leaving it later and later each year for Christmas cards and parcels, I wouldn't be surprised if we get hammered with pkts and parcels mon and tues.

I've also noticed in recent years the pkts don't particularly drop off immediately after Christmas... they're still up at more or less Christmas volumes for a week or two after Christmas.

Yep. It's actually worse in our office because all the support is gone too, so you've got Christmas volumes with no help from packet drivers running oversized.

noggin1969 · Post by **noggin1969** » 22 Dec 2019, 18:43

Can see it being busy , SD and Tracked especially if the other couriers are failing and divert them to us. Also the January sales will kick in big time if the retailers haven't had a good Christmas.

twoloops · Post by **twoloops** » 22 Dec 2019, 19:50

Asking for a friend.
If you knock off sick Tomorrow, Monday & Tuesday will you still get paid for Christmas Day & Boxing Day without a proper ticket & even stretch it out & come back next Monday like?

Post by **aiden01** » 22 Dec 2019, 20:35

twoloops wrote:Asking for a friend.
If you knock off sick Tomorrow, Monday & Tuesday will you still get paid for Christmas Day & Boxing Day without a proper ticket & even stretch it out & come back next Monday like?

Why would your friend

not be paid.

Post by **aiden01** » 22 Dec 2019, 20:36

twoloops wrote:Asking for a friend.
If you knock off sick Tomorrow, Monday & Tuesday will you still get paid for Christmas Day & Boxing Day without a proper ticket & even stretch it out & come back next Monday like?

Can honestly say your friend wont be the only one phoning in sick this week

Seymour Buts · Post by **Seymour Buts** » 23 Dec 2019, 19:00

It was surprisingly dead for us today. I still finished an hour early on easily the worst walk in our office, having done what many didn't do and come in on time and took my break. Many of the runners were gone about midday. Goes to show you can never judge what is gonna happen in this job!

Acca Dacca · Post by **Acca Dacca** » 23 Dec 2019, 19:04

It was probably busiest day of the pressure for xmas cards today - it was as if the mail centre had been hoarding them for a week and then releasing them all at once - was unreal

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 23 Dec 2019, 19:39

Acca Dacca wrote:It was probably busiest day of the pressure for xmas cards today - it was as if the mail centre had been hoarding them for a week and then releasing them all at once - was unreal

They've probably been rolling over each day what mech they've not got the capacity to process and were probably told Sunday that they weren't allowed to roll it over any more and so sent the overflow as manual

Acca Dacca · Post by **Acca Dacca** » 23 Dec 2019, 19:55

SpacePhoenix wrote:
Acca Dacca wrote:It was probably busiest day of the pressure for xmas cards today - it was as if the mail centre had been hoarding them for a week and then releasing them all at once - was unreal
They've probably been rolling over each day what mech they've not got the capacity to process and were probably told Sunday that they weren't allowed to roll it over any more and so sent the overflow as manual

Think your spot on

I had three trays of manual (to one frame) which was mostly xmas cards so your theory seems right

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 23 Dec 2019, 20:38

Acca Dacca wrote:
SpacePhoenix wrote:
Acca Dacca wrote:It was probably busiest day of the pressure for xmas cards today - it was as if the mail centre had been hoarding them for a week and then releasing them all at once - was unreal
They've probably been rolling over each day what mech they've not got the capacity to process and were probably told Sunday that they weren't allowed to roll it over any more and so sent the overflow as manual
Think your spot on

I had three trays of manual (to one frame) which was mostly xmas cards so your theory seems right

Also if a batch has a very high % of xmas cards and it's being run on a CSS, the machine will tend to chuck loads out as rejects (1 maybe 2 whole trays is not unusual), especially on 3rd passes (the square ones tend to roll as they pass through and with the amount of them it's not feasible to tidy them all up so they aren't at all sorts of angles)

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 26 Dec 2019, 23:02

Monday wasn't as bad as the previous week with just finishing about thirty minutes beyond duty time.
Tuesday was a bit quieter than Tuesdays have been for a number of weeks and got back to the DO just before 1300.
Not sure what Friday & Saturday will bring. It could be really quiet or RM might have saved up a pile of 'rubbish' to send us to deliver.