Big elastic bands

[Selhurst]

Can anybody shed any light on why there is a shortage of big elastic bands? This week has been a nightmare with council tax and census forms plus usual mail and door to doors. Bundles have been big, and so small elastic bands not fit for purpose. They are always breaking on tie up

[Wigglypark]

Can anybody shed any light on why there is a shortage of big elastic bands? This week has been a nightmare with council tax and census forms plus usual mail and door to doors. Bundles have been big, and so small elastic bands not fit for purpose. They are always breaking on tie up

You could make the bundles smaller

[pex]

There all on the customers driveways and porches from what I see.
Am I on my own in bringing them back for the next day to reuse?

[yubin282]

Yeah we need to bring back those bigger elastic bands, i don't even bother using them horizontally anymore they just don't stretch enough.

The idiots that insist on putting packets into the frame should be shot with s**t.

[SpacePhoenix]

AFAIK you can order big boxes of bands (either all small or all large). Maybe RM are only ordering boxes of small bands now, as the larger bands are like gold dust in MCs as well

[Tinoblade]

There all on the customers driveways and porches from what I see.
Am I on my own in bringing them back for the next day to reuse?

So many people at our office just launch them on the floor. As I pull ithem from the bundle I just wrap tgem round my wrist till I get back to van and keep em

[postpersondorset]

[quote=SpacePhoenix post_id=936246 time=1615049663 user_id=7352]
AFAIK you can order big boxes of bands (either all small or all large). Maybe RM are only ordering boxes of small bands now, as the larger bands are like gold dust in MCs as well
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its all down to who ever does the ordering for your Mail Centre

No problem ay my local MC

[rambo1]

Big ones probably cost more so in royal mail's wisdom (ha) , they probably only order small ones which don't do the job and if you try and make them do the job, they snap ,thus costing more in the long run as the big ones last for ages. Mind you what do we know, we only do the job every day.

[SpacePhoenix]

AFAIK you can order big boxes of bands (either all small or all large). Maybe RM are only ordering boxes of small bands now, as the larger bands are like gold dust in MCs as well

its all down to who ever does the ordering for your Mail Centre

No problem ay my local MC

Probably not being ordered as there's not many needed with the way that mech letters have dropped off over the last couple of years

[fly-catchers]

The next time you see a small boy ask him if has any you can have...

[Dorset Plodder]

It's because "MAIL's DROPPING OFF" Lads!

That must be "On Average" though because I've still got enough to keep me out for a bit of Pressure OT .... and that's NOT just because of all these parcels!

[twoloops]

I have trouble changing gear with the amount on the gear knob

[SpacePhoenix]

It's because "MAIL's DROPPING OFF" Lads!

That must be "On Average" though because I've still got enough to keep me out for a bit of Pressure OT .... and that's NOT just because of all these parcels!

Even parcels have dropped off a lot. Take away all the PPE and covid test kits and the same would apply for Tracked

[Celgar]

It's because "MAIL's DROPPING OFF" Lads!

That must be "On Average" though because I've still got enough to keep me out for a bit of Pressure OT .... and that's NOT just because of all these parcels!

Even parcels have dropped off a lot. Take away all the PPE and covid test kits and the same would apply for Tracked

There will always be regional & local variations in the amount of mail & parcels. My walk seems to have fallen into the same pattern week on week now. Since RM swapped the mail volumes over for Mondays & Tuesdays I tend to finish on time on Mondays & have to book extended on Tuesdays. Wednesday through to Saturdays I usually end up booking extended every day. Yesterday I had to book two hours & ten minutes extended including prepping the D2Ds.
* Before someone mentions the D2Ds there isn't time in duty time anymore to prep them so I just do them for delivery on Monday as that is the lightest day now . *

Regarding elastic bands it is better to order the large size as they do not snap and can literally last forever. Makes you wonder why some posties go through a handful of them nearly every day. Best course of action is to take them home & bring them back the next day otherwise they get 'stolen' by other posties in the office!
Offices are allocated a certain quantity of bands in any period of time so if some posties waste them your office will run out.

[SpacePhoenix]

Regarding elastic bands it is better to order the large size as they do not snap and can literally last forever. Makes you wonder why some posties go through a handful of them nearly every day. Best course of action is to take them home & bring them back the next day otherwise they get 'stolen' by other posties in the office!
Offices are allocated a certain quantity of bands in any period of time so if some posties waste them your office will run out.

If you exclude bulk postings, there's very rarely any need to use large elastic bands. With wave 2, tbqf sometimes it's probably not worth the bother to even walk sort some batches when they get so little mail once bulk postings are taken out the picture