Naff all on monday late finish, slaughtered on Tuesday early finish

Post by **eastie** » 03 Aug 2020, 13:50

finish 1 and a half hours early today but tomorrow we will most probably go over by an hour like we have for the last month on a tuesday , with an early finish.
What the fook is going on...................... 5 day week afoot ??

toonshola · Post by **toonshola** » 03 Aug 2020, 13:55

It definitely seems to be happening on purpose. Parcels were still pretty busy here today but once again the mail wasn’t even worth prepping in and taking out, probably missed about 8 doors between each letter. Very strange....

bucks123 · Post by **bucks123** » 03 Aug 2020, 13:58

the same discussions in our office today. never had such a quiet letters day.

our union rep has been telling people today that the plan for our office is that those on a 4 day week will be moved over to 5 days (3 quarters of our office are on 4 days - mainly rurals).

how true this is and how much of these decisions are down to local agreements I am not sure. needless to say there were a lot of unhappy posties.

gand · Post by **gand** » 03 Aug 2020, 14:24

The manager at my office is already using the old classic of "you where finished early on this day" so now your not allowed to cut off" even telling staff who say they need to cut off that if they bring anything back they will be conducted. Union no were to be seen.

Ren Hoëk · Post by **Ren Hoëk** » 03 Aug 2020, 14:29

Yup, Dead as per usual. Very concerning. Ever since we dropped the Saturday and picked it back up its been this way. Before we dropped the Saturday, Mondays and Saturdays were normal. When we dropped that Saturday, Mondays were impossibly busy. When we picked it back up again Saturday went back to normal yet Monday have gone to this? Somethings going on.

JKSmudge · Post by **JKSmudge** » 03 Aug 2020, 14:42

Ren Hoëk wrote:Yup, Dead as per usual. Very concerning. Ever since we dropped the Saturday and picked it back up its been this way. Before we dropped the Saturday, Mondays and Saturdays were normal. When we dropped that Saturday, Mondays were impossibly busy. When we picked it back up again Saturday went back to normal yet Monday have gone to this? Somethings going on.

Certainly seems to be engineered towards a 5 day week. Our office now talikng about triple lapsing Tuesday and Saturday - the shortest working days of the week. And yet Monday is not worth taking out really.

2yearpostie · Post by **2yearpostie** » 03 Aug 2020, 15:20

As long as you do your contracted hours over the week does it matter?

yubin282 · Post by **yubin282** » 03 Aug 2020, 15:25

It seems it's only me who gets hammered on a Monday. That's because I've always got at least 2 days of mail.

Since this craziness started at the end of march i've worked 76 days and out of those i've only had 4 'normal' days.

WORK TO TIME!!

malawihap · Post by **malawihap** » 03 Aug 2020, 16:08

RM trying to engineer something here, we were doing double our normal lapsing today so quadruple . As the manager has stopped some of the par timers coming in on monday and changing some of there days to Wednesday .

daveyeff · Post by **daveyeff** » 03 Aug 2020, 17:05

i double prepped both the drivers and my duty this morning. the drivers side has over 1000 calls. i prepped in 110 letters and 32 flats. he had about 60 packets. my side has almost 1000 calls, i prepped in 93 letters 21 flats. 47 packets. a record low. and ive got nearly 30 yrs in. there's a rabbit off.

Manboat · Post by **Manboat** » 03 Aug 2020, 17:20

So we’re thinking Tuesday to Saturday Mail only now or am I reading this wrong

Interested-seeker · Post by **Interested-seeker** » 03 Aug 2020, 17:30

2yearpostie wrote:As long as you do your contracted hours over the week does it matter?

What about people who have other commitments like picking up their children from school?

Rommagic · Post by **Rommagic** » 03 Aug 2020, 17:37

Mail on Mondays worrying.

Intercityfirm1970 · Post by **Intercityfirm1970** » 03 Aug 2020, 17:40

There is no claw back or banking of hours.. Tuesday you finish at your time end of

ted_e_bear · Post by **ted_e_bear** » 03 Aug 2020, 17:47

Manboat wrote:So we’re thinking Tuesday to Saturday Mail only now or am I reading this wrong

More likely mon-fri with Saturdays mail being rolled over to Monday.