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[blacov]

I've been repeatedly saying this for a long time, RM have a long history of 'cooking the books' even pre-privatisation... the only difference is RM cook the books to make profits look down and the business prospects grim so they can use it as a stick to beat the posties with.

I seems like it however unbelievable it is. I can understand that it is a great tool to negotiate with CWU but at the same time they undermine the company shares value. It is very strangely managed company.


Going back to inevitable changes we will face. Speaking from a full time reserve point of view. One that knows 60-70% of the whole office duties covering anything from hct to driving duties, This whole thing may actually be beneficial to us. Once seniority is scrapped or at least is not the only factor looked at when assigning duties we may end up with something of our own. Also being very flexible with knowledge of various types of duties our job security should look good.

I dont want to sound selfish but if some of the older colleagues accepted the fact that we may no longer have early finishes and easy life as they were used to some 10 years ago or more. They will still be in the job that pays reasonable wage and can be enjoyed with the right attitude and a bit of luck when it comes to line management.

My main concern is there will also be an attack on pay conditions. Pay rise might be a thing of the past and generally speaking they may look to reduce the benefit of paid sick and some other allowances while giving us a rise of silly 2-3% and announcing how generous the offer is and CWU trying to justify it with us.

[HTPostman]

The changes people will have to accept will centre around start times and attendance patterns with the probability that far more duties will be assigned due to suitability rather than on a seniority basis.

For example a non driver may have limited choice when it comes to a repick and may be assigned to an HCT duty whether they want it or not, some staff may be assigned to afternoon shifts if they have no justifiable reason not to, some drivers may be assigned to reserve duties even if they're senior enough to pick a duty, in fact the whole idea of posties choosing where or when they work could disappear with the only guarantee that you'll get your contracted hours.

If you can accept that there will be a job for you, if you can't (and they know a lot won't) then there may not be a job for you.

Don’t know about others but I could live with that. I’m a floater doing the afternoon shift expected to cover 1 of 40 different rounds at the drop of a hat so it makes no difference to be. Can see a lot being unhappy especially those moves off rounds they’ve done for years.

[grchpo]

Why move someone off a round that they know & are completing to a round they don't know & put another on their initial round. It doesn't make sense

[Zicomurphy]

How can you make such a sweeping statement yoi're obviously talking about what happens in your office and have no idea what goes on outside that

Well seeing as 100% of the guys/girls with the HCT's finish a lot earlier than those who go out in the vans and a HCT is only so big that you can only fit a certain amount of mail/parcels inside one, I am pretty confident that my 'sweeping statement' is highly likely accurate in most if not all cases.

Look at the size of a van versus a HCT.

Our HCT duties have a support driver. Take as much out as you can fit into your HCT (or as much as you want to take) and leave the rest for the support driver. When you want to be replenished give the driver a call or text and they will meet you with your next load of work to refill your trolley.

Also I would say the HCT duties are just the same as park and loop pairings or single driving duties. Some are probably too easy and some are probably way too long. They certainly are not all seen as easy duties in my office.

[Cucumber]

Why move someone off a round that they know & are completing to a round they don't know & put another on their initial round. It doesn't make sense

It's much better for the company to have each person know 5 different runs, than have 90% know 1 run and 10% know 30 runs.

[Cafcant]

This reminds me of the time around colleague shares...

We went from making a million a day one year to losing a million a day the next when nothing had changed!

I can't 100% remember but I think the union looked into it and it was all clever accounting buying failing business's abroad etc.

They have preached in work time learning letters make no money we need to be a parcel firm then when it happens someone very high up told me the margins are terrible on packets and it's frightening how little mail we have

They are really trying to drop the USO and then watch the profits bounce back I hope the regulator sees through it because they've destroyed a really good business to make themselves rich whilst putting stupid pressure particularly on front line staff

[yubin282]

Why move someone off a round that they know & are completing to a round they don't know & put another on their initial round. It doesn't make sense

A duty is a duty, there all the same and we all get paid the same wage. "I don't know the frame" isn't really an excuse when you have a walksorted tray.

I have this discussion regularly with the office rep.

[rambo1]

One thing that would probably make a big difference in many DOs if if they were to have a couple of staff take out vans and do all the SDs for the office and maybe the very largest oversize as well

That already happens in some offices, dedicated packet duties

Your having a laugh, you'll be saying we'll all be riding bikes next and having our 2nd, 3rd and 4th (on a busy day) bags dropped off at a newsagent or put in a lockable metal box on a post. .......oh wait, no, thats what used to happen and was so incredibly inefficient and costly they decided to buy vans by the 10's of thousand.......look where that's got us.

[rambo1]

I don't understand how and why they would need all of us Posties if we are about to focus on parcel deliveries.

Are they just going to dump the letters? If not, then posties needed to deliver them.

As we saw during the saturday parcel only delivery - you only need half the amount of Posties.

On the Saturday, then twice as many on the Monday to catch up with the letters.

And only about 60% of the packets got done on the Saturday!

[rambo1]

Why move someone off a round that they know & are completing to a round they don't know & put another on their initial round. It doesn't make sense

A duty is a duty, there all the same and we all get paid the same wage. "I don't know the frame" isn't really an excuse when you have a walksorted tray.

I have this discussion regularly with the office rep.

That's rubbish. Yeah you can put in mech sequenced in any frame but someone who knows a duty is always gonna be a better use of resources than someone who doesn't. Thats a fact.

[Woody Guthrie]

Why move someone off a round that they know & are completing to a round they don't know & put another on their initial round. It doesn't make sense

A duty is a duty, there all the same and we all get paid the same wage. "I don't know the frame" isn't really an excuse when you have a walksorted tray.

I have this discussion regularly with the office rep.

That's rubbish. Yeah you can put in mech sequenced in any frame but someone who knows a duty is always gonna be a better use of resources than someone who doesn't. Thats a fact.

Putting someone on a duty they know is only an efficient use of resources if the business benefits in some way.

If all it means is that the postie goes home an hour early there are better ways of using him/her.

It's better to have 6 people who know the duty a bit than one who knows it a lot after all you're not asking a plumber to perform brain surgery.

[Bobby39]

Well you need to reduce HCT posties hours or give them more post as their job is too easy for a start. Paid 30mins to an hour for free at the end of their shifts.[/quote]


Would certainly agree with this in terms of our office. Longest hct round is 3 hours, with the shortest being 2.15 hours. We don't have any support refilling during the round so as mentioned above, theres a limited amount of post / parcels that can fit in the hct. Essentially meaning the parcel guy ends up taking shoe box sized parcels and covering the same ground as the hct. Incredibly inefficient!