I'm normally a reserve floater but during the first covid wave I got the chance to be on a urban rural for 5 months. I would have loved to have engaged with everyone but if I did I would go over my time by at least an hour everyday. Some rounds are just too long to talk to people these days
Its either go over an hour each day by talking to everyone or being quick and dumping parcels to get finished in my time. I chose the later! looking back, I wish I had took my time. The weather was perfect and sunny and everybody was home due to covid. May sound strange but I'm sort of missing that weather and novelty of it all now. Always next year I suppose
Most in our office would rather forfeit the tips than engaging with the customers
Me too, I'm certainly not a runner but I'm quite happy to get no tips as long as the customers don't expect me to be their best mate and stand around chatting boring, inane, repetitive s**t with them for 10 minutes every day.
I find some of the close relationships that some posties have with their customers quite sad on both sides, one postie in my office must have 75% of his customers as his facebook friends and most of his page seems to be him highlighting all the special favours he does for them, followed by them all replying saying what a wonderful postie he is, even though as far as I can see he doesn't actually go to any more trouble or effort than any other half decent postie, he's just a master of self promotion.
Theres a guy in my office who gets a text message from a customer every morning, reminding him not to post her credit cards bills as her husband is at home.
Could you really be bothered with that kind of 'service'.
Not delivering them would be wilful delay , surely !!
Most in our office would rather forfeit the tips than engaging with the customers
Me too, I'm certainly not a runner but I'm quite happy to get no tips as long as the customers don't expect me to be their best mate and stand around chatting boring, inane, repetitive s**t with them for 10 minutes every day.
I find some of the close relationships that some posties have with their customers quite sad on both sides, one postie in my office must have 75% of his customers as his facebook friends and most of his page seems to be him highlighting all the special favours he does for them, followed by them all replying saying what a wonderful postie he is, even though as far as I can see he doesn't actually go to any more trouble or effort than any other half decent postie, he's just a master of self promotion.
Theres a guy in my office who gets a text message from a customer every morning, reminding him not to post her credit cards bills as her husband is at home.
Could you really be bothered with that kind of 'service'.
Not delivering them would be wilful delay , surely !!
the golden philosophy is that nobody is entitled to tips under any circumstances, so it's better to expect none and be pleasantly surprised if you do get anything, than expect loads and get pissy when you don't get them.
I like to get my headphones in & listen to some podcasts, the last thing I want is to start talking gibberish with some bored, boring customer, over the years I have found the posties that live alone or wife’s are at home all day are the worst, they never want to go home.
Not so. The customer is the sender and unless there is a signed retention form in the office stating the retention day, then not posting mail on particular days is wilful delay all day long.
looking back, I wish I had took my time. The weather was perfect and sunny and everybody was home due to covid. May sound strange but I'm sort of missing that weather and novelty of it all now. Always next year I suppose
