Van sharing from Monday

Chelseablue · Post by **Chelseablue** » 06 Oct 2020, 18:00

No many adults in rm
Offices, the selfish ignorant ones will love this

Cucumber · Post by **Cucumber** » 06 Oct 2020, 18:03

2yearpostie wrote:Can we still use our own cars to get to and from the 1st del point?

I'm sure that will be part of the managers briefing that they convey tomorrow. Who knows though, it could be used as leverage to get people to agree with going back onto van share.

Will you van share - yes = no problem (for them). No - then you are walking to duty/being given notice of change of hours of attendance.

Personally, I can't imagine if RM want van share back that they will agree to all these different methods of conveyance under the one roof.

People in Single vans
People in van share
People walking to first delivery point and meeting driver
People driving own car to first delivery point and meet driver
People taking public transport ti first delivery point

That is a logistical nightmare.

wallan · Post by **wallan** » 06 Oct 2020, 18:09

Chelseablue wrote:No many adults in rm
Offices, the selfish ignorant ones will love this

This will lead to a More Divided workforce

Yamr1 · Post by **Yamr1** » 06 Oct 2020, 18:11

No to van shares
Or getting a bus
And using car

f***ers can't even give u a pay rise

Post by **panzer4** » 06 Oct 2020, 18:14

I think this decision by RM just shows the contempt management have for their staff

Post by **Pathfinder** » 06 Oct 2020, 18:15

We all knew it was coming, you get shot down for questioning stuff on here.

Cucumber · Post by **Cucumber** » 06 Oct 2020, 18:22

Pathfinder wrote:We all knew it was coming, you get shot down for questioning stuff on here.

The desire for it to return has never gone away by the sounds of it. I've been very vocal about it never returning, simply for using RM's logic of things being done in the safest way possible - that clearly can't be the case if van shares return.

Post by **Pathfinder** » 06 Oct 2020, 18:28

It shouldn't return, but we've been instructed now it will. So all is well, eh woodie?

PostmanBitesDog · Post by **PostmanBitesDog** » 06 Oct 2020, 18:32

ICYMI:

2yearpostie · Post by **2yearpostie** » 06 Oct 2020, 18:33

MinTee wrote:
2yearpostie wrote:Can we still use our own cars to get to and from the 1st del point?
Yes but why would you?

People need to stop helping this company take that pound of flesh, you’re supplying the knife.

Your car is not a company asset to complete the job.
You don’t owe them anything.

As much as id like rm to get 50k extra vans its never going to happen so of the 3 options, van share, work till 7pm through december january etc or use your own car to get to delivery point 1, the last option (for me) is the safest.

PostmanBitesDog · Post by **PostmanBitesDog** » 06 Oct 2020, 19:35

In the video, Terry PullFinger mentions that Mark Bauch has been in talks with Royal Mail management over quite a few matters including this one, but Mark Bauch is currently away. It seems we need to wait for more updates.

And what's the bet that RM management will use examples of vehicle sharing like, "Well, driving instructors, taxi drivers, police officers, and refuse bin collectors share the same vehicle. Why can't you posties share vans?" I like to see CWU's response to that.

Phantom · Post by **Phantom** » 06 Oct 2020, 19:36

If they make it difficult regarding van share then we will be leaving even more mail in and cutting off.

PostmanBitesDog · Post by **PostmanBitesDog** » 06 Oct 2020, 19:41

biggiehud wrote:Yea about time end this fxxxing madness over nothing Thank god royalmail have woken up to this bullshit the lefty looneys have had there day gunna be funny on Monday can’t wait

Enough with that nonsense, please.

Cucumber · Post by **Cucumber** » 06 Oct 2020, 19:42

PostmanBitesDog wrote:In the video, Terry PullFinger mentions that Mark Bauch has been in talks with Royal Mail management over quite a few matters including this one, but Mark Bauch is currently away. It seems we need to wait for more updates.

And what's the bet that RM management will use examples of vehicle sharing like, "Well, driving instructors, taxi drivers, police officers, and refuse bin collectors share the same vehicle. Why can't you posties share vans?" I like to see CWU's response to that.

Management won't need to use those professions as examples, as there are clearly many posties in RM who feel hard done by because they can't copy other workers who van share.
Remember everyone, it was RM who pulled van sharing as it wasn't the safest way to work during a pandemic - why is it safer now?

PostmanBitesDog · Post by **PostmanBitesDog** » 06 Oct 2020, 19:48

To give some context, the daily new positive cases below (the jump from 7,981 on October 4th to 12,594 on October 5th would be due to the fiasco over the thousands of missing cases).

Daily COVID-19 Cases (UK).jpg