Scrapping none letter deliveries on saturdays

twoloops · Post by **twoloops** » 18 May 2020, 15:18

Same in our office no full timers in on Saturdays “to long in the tooth & stuck in their ways” part timers run the gaff @ weekends get the job done without crying like a baby

1560loopsayear · Post by **1560loopsayear** » 18 May 2020, 15:36

Hate to say it but it worked in our office - huge amounts of parcels (non-tracked) were piling up over the week on several walks. Came in today and all cleared... just like that. Saturday miracles were performed! Funny that. So basically the 'Tracked/Special' items are the bees knees... anything else will get done when staffing allows. If that USO does get watered down permanently and Royal Mail can get inventive on their SLA's we are all up the proverbial creek without the corresponding paddle.

2yearpostie · Post by **2yearpostie** » 18 May 2020, 15:37

HTPostman wrote:
wazer wrote:We had 5 vans not used Sat.Still loads of drop bags,letters left in office.Not enough drivers, they say its down to sick.Bullshit,nearly all the part times have had Sat as there day off.Monday will b mad again.
I reckon PT staff will mostly be given Saturdays off. RM really won’t get much work out of someone on a 5 hour day...even if the van is loaded by someone else, he/she has to look at where the parcels are for, do a van check, 20 minute break, sign the van out, get to the area, get back, unload, sort the P739 parcels out. Plus very few PT workers have their own round so will naturally be slower. At best RM are getting 3 and a half hours work. Whereas a FT on an 8 hour day is going to get a lot more done.

i put my own round up got 80 oversized and 3 packet bags of small stuff done in 5 hrs.

Post by **Murdoch** » 18 May 2020, 16:59

Mondays are an absolute disaster in my office. Everybody is claiming about 60-90 mins overtime.

They've created a huge headache, where one didn't occur before.

Rommagic · Post by **Rommagic** » 18 May 2020, 17:16

Some finished on time today better then last Monday.

Post by **fb1969** » 18 May 2020, 17:25

Saturday = over 75% staff levels, most van shares still need two people (one walks out and back), first 10 people back were sent back out on large parcels that had been left.
The rest that got back early prepped d2d, most duties have 3 or 4 this week. Office just managed to clear with a few going about 15 minutes over.

Monday = disaster, IPS and Tracked packets took priority. Extra mail on IPS meant around 15 Yorks of packets failed, although all large Tracked were cleared. Less than half the duties finished on time, and around a quarter were more than 30 minutes over (no idea how many and by how much as I went home then).

Overall a pointless change for us, caused far more problems than ever existed in the first place - given the number of problems in Royal Mail that's a hell of an achievement!

Post by **Murdoch** » 18 May 2020, 17:47

Rommagic wrote:Some finished on time today better then last Monday.

I was expecting a better Monday. But nope, parcel levels are through the roof, and double letters (thanks for that RM).

Post by **Jack1960** » 18 May 2020, 18:03

We followed the 50 percent of duties recommendation, we had 3 vans for large parcels , 3 cdvs did 2 walks each and 8 walkers did one and a half each , worked well even had time to sort ip and throw walks off..

Post by **rambo1** » 18 May 2020, 20:04

Rommagic wrote:Tomorrow has got too be better then last Monday.

Wishful thinking...........no it most certainly wasn't.

Post by **rambo1** » 18 May 2020, 20:07

Murdoch wrote:Mondays are an absolute disaster in my office. Everybody is claiming about 60-90 mins overtime.

They've created a huge headache, where one didn't occur before.

Only 60-90 mins? Thats bloomin good!

Post by **rambo1** » 18 May 2020, 20:10

Jack1960 wrote:We followed the 50 percent of duties recommendation, we had 3 vans for large parcels , 3 cdvs did 2 walks each and 8 walkers did one and a half each , worked well even had time to sort ip and throw walks off..

Jeez you must all be finished well early normally!

robbertwhitton · Post by **robbertwhitton** » 18 May 2020, 22:41

Yep nightmare day today finished past my time 5and half hour delivery,on a rural,others long gone,but that’s fine as finished early Saturday,I believe that’s how this works?.. oh the joy of old age and slowing down,and a manager quoting from his well rehearsed script,what joy!,,

robbertwhitton · Post by **robbertwhitton** » 18 May 2020, 22:47

Enough of this nonsense,let’s get back to ‘normal’ it’s not funny anymore,or is this system likely to carry on cv19 or not?

RTP · Post by **RTP** » 18 May 2020, 23:13

Most stupid idea since Consignia.

Post by **HTPostman** » 19 May 2020, 07:00

2yearpostie wrote:
HTPostman wrote:
wazer wrote:We had 5 vans not used Sat.Still loads of drop bags,letters left in office.Not enough drivers, they say its down to sick.Bullshit,nearly all the part times have had Sat as there day off.Monday will b mad again.
I reckon PT staff will mostly be given Saturdays off. RM really won’t get much work out of someone on a 5 hour day...even if the van is loaded by someone else, he/she has to look at where the parcels are for, do a van check, 20 minute break, sign the van out, get to the area, get back, unload, sort the P739 parcels out. Plus very few PT workers have their own round so will naturally be slower. At best RM are getting 3 and a half hours work. Whereas a FT on an 8 hour day is going to get a lot more done.
i put my own round up got 80 oversized and 3 packet bags of small stuff done in 5 hrs.

Which kind of proves my point - on your own round you have a good chance of flying round with the parcels. You know every book and cranny, every shortcut, safe places, who’s auntie lives where if they aren’t in.

A PT postman coming in at 10am to an at best loaded van (unlikely) and at worst packets all over a frame delivering to an area they don’t know isn’t going to be anywhere near as productive.