Return to shared vans from *?????????* ***

[Grumpyoldmailman]

When’s Terry doing a video from the comfort of his study telling us all its now safe?

[Rommagic]

Dom said update today?.

[GRS]

Had a brief today as expected. Was exactly as I said yesterday. It was a load of nonsense: don’t turn and face one another, Make sure you’re in the van for the shortest time possible (don’t know what happens to the 20 mins meal relief we have to take out on delivery), only one to access the rear to of the van at a time to get bags out. Is this a national agreement to go back to van share on Monday 19th?

[Jahpostie]

Where's the union on this? Why do we pay our subs? Come on someone in the union.....

[toonshola]

Where's the union on this? Why do we pay our subs? Come on someone in the union.....

Dave Ward is still dancing round Wembley like a massive twat after hiding in his basement during COVID. Terry is having a sleepover at the new CEOs house. They are both on about 10k a month. Why do we pay our subs indeed.

[Cucumber]

Van share return rumour blew through our office over the past few days
Huge resistance to it, but from what I can tell none of it on safety grounds.

[thefox]

Dom told us today no van share on monday its been put back

[Woody Guthrie]

Dom told us today no van share on monday its been put back

That's what I'm hearing as well although nothing official.
f***ing ridiculous lack of information at this stage.

[Rommagic]

Update on Facebook looks like no van share next week.

[CharlesG]

Further update on lockdown easing:

Following my earlier updates, I said that I would continue to update you on any changes to the way we operate given the upcoming changes in restrictions.

We are currently concluding discussions with our CWU colleagues on the next steps, having already agreed them with Unite/CMA.

We will be providing further guidance on Monday (19th July 2021) relating to van sharing and social distancing, but we wanted to clarify the position on face coverings:

• In England, from Monday 19th July 2021, all employees are strongly encouraged to continue to use face coverings when working inside, particularly in enclosed, crowded workspaces (wearing the Royal Mail Group branded 3-ply face covering or equivalent).

• In Northern Ireland face coverings remain mandatory until 26th July 2021.

• In Scotland and Wales face coverings remain mandatory until further notice.

• Royal Mail Group retains the right to mandate face coverings in line with a risk assessment review and based on infection rate data.

We remain committed to keeping our people safe and this is our number one priority.

Please continue to operate with all other existing standards remaining in place.

Thank you for your patience this week as we worked through this and I will keep you updated as we move forwards.



This is from Royal Mail.
More guidance about van sharing to be given on Monday apparently

[Ozzvaldo]

We were categorically told this morning that there has been no agreement between the Union and RM management about returning to shared vans, and that this applies nationally. Our hire vans aren't going back, and the duty plan for next week is for singleton van deliveries.

[mags999]

should be delayed at least a month to let lockdown reversal time to settle with the extra cases expected

[Grumpyoldmailman]

The union won’t want anything to do with Boris’s experiment.

[Wasntme]

Definitely back to van share from Monday. Manager told us hire vans being returned Sunday

[Mick100]

Definitely not happening at our office wouldn’t surprise me if single vans are here for a long time,with COVID cases predicted to rocket