Why are RM not employing casuals (for delivery)?

[nightcrawler]

Stop going over and beyond for a company that couldn’t give a flying f**k about your unachievable workload, your mental well-being, or whether you get struck down with covid and keel over. Just do your hours and if it piles up then so be it, let the failures of management be known to those at the top and to the public! Nothing will change if we carry on pulling them out of the s**t.

I completely agree with this BUT...unfortunately I sometimes let stress get the better of me. I shouldn’t of course, but I can’t help it. Some nights I even have trouble sleeping because I’m thinking about work the following morning. Don’t get me wrong, I do EVERYTHING you said in your post - I start/finish on time, take my full breaks, and never do o/t, and the work is just building up. Managers don’t seem to give a s**t. I need to re-wire my brain so I don’t let it get to me from now on!

[markarronsmith]

Stop going over and beyond for a company that couldn’t give a flying f**k about your unachievable workload, your mental well-being, or whether you get struck down with covid and keel over. Just do your hours and if it piles up then so be it, let the failures of management be known to those at the top and to the public! Nothing will change if we carry on pulling them out of the s**t.

Agreed. I hate leaving it tho if I’m honest. I always work my allocated shift time but when I leave mail I know it’s me that has to do it again the day after and the day after and so on..

The worst is waiting for vans (as I’m on the afternoon shift) having s**t loads of tracked and not getting out till 3pm most days. And when I get a van they’re falling apart!! And when I have a day off I come into double mail and packets cos my walks not gone out

Something needs to change ASAP

[Celgar]

Having casual staff in DOs wouldn't really work as they won't know where they are going and you would just get complaints & mistakes. The posties knowledge IS Royal Mail as I have said before. Without that RM is just another courier company that delivers parcels badly or to the wrong address.

[SpacePhoenix]

Having casual staff in DOs wouldn't really work as they won't know where they are going and you would just get complaints & mistakes. The posties knowledge IS Royal Mail as I have said before. Without that RM is just another courier company that delivers parcels badly or to the wrong address.

What RM need to do is have proper walk logs. map showing the route, start and end of loops, parking spots, dog (and other hazards) entry codes, etc

[k979aaa]

Having casual staff in DOs wouldn't really work as they won't know where they are going and you would just get complaints & mistakes. The posties knowledge IS Royal Mail as I have said before. Without that RM is just another courier company that delivers parcels badly or to the wrong address.

What RM need to do is have proper walk logs. map showing the route, start and end of loops, parking spots, dog (and other hazards) entry codes, etc

AND LAPSING DUTIES who said this was not a skilled job?

[greengiant]

My office has had agency staff in since before Christmas.

[Kesknight]

Amazon have started delivering their own parcels in our area. Our packets and parcels have dropped well below half in the last week. We complained we had too much work, it's changed almost overnight

[twiddledumb]

They are, we have 3 in my office. Same job as every other postie but on lower pay and no benefits that other posties. This is the RM future template, RM testing the water and as usual the union do nothing just like they did when they stopped Saturday letter deliveries last year, guess what the regulator now recommends the end of Saturday letter deliveries after seeing how well if worked last year. Well done union you played a blinder there.