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Post by **panzer4** » 30 Mar 2020, 18:52

Rule Break

Post by **panzer4** » 30 Mar 2020, 19:20

I assume you mean a starburst way of delivery if so it would be like a convoy IE only as fast as the slowest person the van driver would be running backwards and forwards all over the place to drop off bags and how would he know where to be and when

daveyeff · Post by **daveyeff** » 30 Mar 2020, 19:22

its more or less the way we used to work before park and loop came in, except we got the bus to the first delivery point, and had bags dropped at shops/post offices/bag boxes. its nowt new. aah the good old days!

themailman · Post by **themailman** » 30 Mar 2020, 19:34

Dindin · Post by **Dindin** » 30 Mar 2020, 20:49

Maybe we could have driverless vans that could come back the office to pick up your colleagues

A2B · Post by **A2B** » 30 Mar 2020, 20:55

How about we let Royal Mail manage their own company?

Woody Guthrie · Post by **Woody Guthrie** » 30 Mar 2020, 21:47

It's one of the solutions RM offered up to their managers. It would work in some offices but not ours, we're stuck out on an industrial estate*.

Can't see a problem with it for city centre DOs though, if there are still some of them left.

*(useless trivia) They sold our old DO for flats a long time ago and coincidentally my mum and dad now live in one of them, right on the spot where our toilets used to be.

scoobydo79 · Post by **scoobydo79** » 31 Mar 2020, 14:00

themailman wrote:
panzer4 wrote:I assume you mean a starburst way of delivery if so it would be like a convoy IE only as fast as the slowest person the van driver would be running backwards and forwards all over the place to drop off bags and how would he know where to be and when
Given that it will be MONTHS before shared vans resumes then I don't think it would take any more than a week for people to get the hang of a new system. As for the driver driving all over the place, well, yeah, they will be, delivering parcels for the area, so pretty easy to visually judge when they need to meet up again.
A 30 minute bag of mail (with very few parcels) will take between 25-35 minutes depending on who does it.

LOL”MONTHS before shared vans resume “. ? It’s taken 5 days in My office!!!

Postmen done it off their own backs !!! Not boss’s orders FFS!!!

Acca Dacca · Post by **Acca Dacca** » 31 Mar 2020, 15:23

scoobydo79 wrote:
themailman wrote:
panzer4 wrote:I assume you mean a starburst way of delivery if so it would be like a convoy IE only as fast as the slowest person the van driver would be running backwards and forwards all over the place to drop off bags and how would he know where to be and when
Given that it will be MONTHS before shared vans resumes then I don't think it would take any more than a week for people to get the hang of a new system. As for the driver driving all over the place, well, yeah, they will be, delivering parcels for the area, so pretty easy to visually judge when they need to meet up again.
A 30 minute bag of mail (with very few parcels) will take between 25-35 minutes depending on who does it.
LOL”MONTHS before shared vans resume “. ? It’s taken 5 days in My office!!!
Postmen done it off their own backs !!! Not boss’s orders FFS!!!

The thing is, if breaking the rules that are there to protect us actually cost Royal Mail and meant less was getting done, they would be the first to conduct you.

Why some are still sharing a van is beyond me

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