Christmas casuals

Selhurst · Post by **Selhurst** » 08 Nov 2020, 21:28

This will be my first Christmas as a postie. Just wondering what the duties are that Christmas casuals undertake?
I read that RM are taking on 30,000 Christmas Casuals.

Post by **Munchboii** » 08 Nov 2020, 21:33

Sorting parcels mainly depends where you are.

Rarely see casuals on delivery these days. Too many mistakes from them sadly.

Post by **POSTMAN** » 08 Nov 2020, 23:57

Selhurst wrote:This will be my first Christmas as a postie. Just wondering what the duties are that Christmas casuals undertake?
I read that RM are taking on 30,000 Christmas Casuals.

You already work in a DO, so it will be much the same except busier.
Also what makes you think you are a casual? Are you paid by Royal mail and have a uniform?

Selhurst · Post by **Selhurst** » 09 Nov 2020, 06:37

Thanks for the reply. I know I’m not a casual and I do have a uniform etc etc. My question is what do the Christmas casuals do, if they have no experience of anything. Prep frames, do households in frames?

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 09 Nov 2020, 07:08

Selhurst wrote:Thanks for the reply. I know I’m not a casual and I do have a uniform etc etc. My question is what do the Christmas casuals do, if they have no experience of anything. Prep frames, do households in frames?

The walk that covers where my parents live, last year had a casual out with them delivering. I'm assuming they must have split the loops between them, with the postie doing all the SDs and getting signatures on the PDA and the casual getting signatures on the P whatever the number is form (that gets sent off to be scanned in)

Zicomurphy · Post by **Zicomurphy** » 09 Nov 2020, 09:55

Selhurst wrote:Thanks for the reply. I know I’m not a casual and I do have a uniform etc etc. My question is what do the Christmas casuals do, if they have no experience of anything. Prep frames, do households in frames?

In a normal year nearly all Christmas casuals will be employed in a Mail centre to process and sort the mail. I would guess most of the work they do would be outward sorting which would just require them to sort to postcode so very little training would be required I’d imagine.

wallan · Post by **wallan** » 09 Nov 2020, 10:26

Asked if you wanted a casual , if yes Duty Holder used to prep full walk & deliver about a "Third" ,casual used to start about 8am & deliver the remainder
1st day both went around together
If no casual duty holder delivered the full walk with extended hours
The Good Old Days

cpsteve · Post by **cpsteve** » 09 Nov 2020, 11:21

If they dont hire more delivery drivers then we will have a massive backlog, i would think it will be packet only saturdays and as many late start packet delivery staff as they can get, the trouble is with so many people going sick the spare people are covering them not doing the excess work.

thedonkey · Post by **thedonkey** » 12 Nov 2020, 14:14

20 years on rural delivery never known a casual to do any deliveries at Christmas. Thousands of extra staff to do the sorting none to do the extra deliveries. Bloody Joke.

swintontillidie · Post by **swintontillidie** » 15 Nov 2020, 16:12

Last year was the first year I've ever known casuals to do a delivery and I'd expect this year to be the same.

Ali831 · Post by **Ali831** » 17 Nov 2020, 20:34

Casuals in our office are delivering, they are working later shifts when there are spare vans

Grumpyoldmailman · Post by **Grumpyoldmailman** » 17 Nov 2020, 21:51

Ali831 wrote: ↑
17 Nov 2020, 20:34
Casuals in our office are delivering, they are working later shifts when there are spare vans

The same up here as well covering for sick leave.

Trolleyvanman · Post by **Trolleyvanman** » 18 Nov 2020, 22:11

Started as a Christmas casual a few years back,straight onto deliveries with a days training and eventually got a contract out of it.

krussel · Post by **krussel** » 19 Nov 2020, 17:12

Had 5 turn up yesterday. They sent them out with 20 parcels each with 4 hours paid hours (5 per hour). One guy went out and delivered just 2 parcels in 45 mins and came back saying it was way too hard. None of the other 4 cleared 20. Today only 1 turned up the other saying it was too hard.

Ali831 · Post by **Ali831** » 19 Nov 2020, 19:48

Do you get the feeling some of these casuals are just ticking boxes. I know of someone who was told when they were on job seekers allowance if they didn't attend the job being offered benefits would be stopped. So they turned up at the relevant company, did 2 hours work and quit. They had followed the stipulation and benefits continued !

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