A letter from Simon Thompson

[ste666]

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[fb1969]

Our office usually clears but relies on around 25% of people working their day off - for several months at least 20 have worked every day off, with a total of 72 duties. With duties getting bigger the number working their day off will fall.

[ssdd]

Simon may pay a casual ear to the posties concerns to let them think he cares, but have no doubt, the ones he is really listening to are the higher up advisors.....the ones who advised him to send that letter out.

Says a lot.

If that's the case, then it's bad advice....

[clashcityrocker]

With duties getting bigger the number working their day off will fall.

With duties getting bigger the number of duties will decrease.
When the number of duties decreases the number of vacant duties will decrease. (They may also hire new staff.)
When the number of vacant duties decreases then the overtime opportunities will decrease as well.

[Cedar_Room]

Post revision times today for FT’s,we now start on a Monday around 8am. With x2 lots of door to doors to put together it was after 8.30 before I even started to prep. An extremely busy day saw us depart the office just after 10am leaving us with little chance of completing within 4hrs,the result being we left 3-rows in on one duty & took all mine. I didn’t lapse before these later start times,you’ve got absolutely zero chance now!

[Marshamp11]

Given the amount of failures in my office I might stay out and clear the whole office tomorrow. Imagine knocking on someones door at 2 in the morning.
Customer hanging out of bedroom window after me knocking: "Do you know what f¥€£ing time it is"
Me: "Yes, thank you but Simon says we need to clear the office and I have parcel for you that needs a signature. Sorry your surname was what? How do spell c¥#t?"

[Sndnkelemfn]

Just chiming in to say, with the hope that this thread is indeed seen by the powers that be, that I'm also one of the "minority" of offices where multiple duties are failing on a daily basis. We're so short staffed and are only staying above the water because we have a great number of employees continually working their day off and doing lots of OT. If you don't work your day off you will come back to a full frame and all but your tracked parcels from the previous day. I've never, in 15 years service, seen such and appalling disregard for delivery standards.

There really needs to be an expose on the s**t show that is royal mail these days. They claim to prioritise covid related deliveries but when duties don't go out, nor do vaccination letters, nor do nhs letters. I don't think the public are aware of how bad things are. This Christmas is going to be a horror show and whilst I am sorry for the customers that are going to suffer for it, I really do hope that things fall apart spectacularly and the man is held accountable. Employee survey asking if I feel proud to work for RM or would I recommend them to my friends or family? I've yet to meet a postie who doesn't think the company is awful. Other than a new start, sorry, they're soon enlightened though.

Royal Mail, already with some of the best resources in the world at their disposal, have failed to modernise and be a first class player in the delivery sector. Its a great big dinosaur of a company. A dinosaur with a shotgun. A dinosaur with a shotgun continually shooting itself in the foot. Treating long serving, full time staff with disdain and pressuring vulnerable part time staff to breaking point and beyond. Clueless management from top to bottom who never actually consider the view of the OPG on anything that truly matters. Trying to do way too many things and provide way too many services and doing them all badly as a result and then blaming the lack of effort from the front line staff every time.

I'll clear my frame if I have time or I want the overtime. I can't spend too much time going over when I've job hunting and interviews to do.

Spot on.

[WASD]

Got my letter today.

Wouldn't be surprised if it was due to lack of staff as i know they were down half the office the other week. I work at another office and it isn't much better.

[nickinoneck]

Dear Simon,

Please say hello to the cuckoos where you live.

Many thanks.

[WASD]

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Spot on.

Agreed, very good post.

[fb1969]

This "response" from the CWU has been posted on Facebook, totally missing the insulting tone of the letter so hardly worth the effort of issuing it really!


Dear Colleagues,
You may be aware that Simon Thompson has written to operational colleagues, with letters arriving at home addresses this weekend. The letter contains the following reference.
The DHSC have formally confirmed this week that Christmas Day & New Year’s Day are both ‘non service days’ so the reference to delivering on Christmas Day is not correct and the edit to the letter was not made in time.
Should you receive calls from locals reps we have prepared the following statement as a reactive response:
‘We have been in discussions with the Department of Health and Social Care and have now confirmed that we will not need to deliver [or collect] test kits on Christmas Day and New Years Day’.
Please feel free to share with Divisional/Area Reps & ASRs. My apologies in advance for additional enquires that you may receive as a result of the above.
Kind regards,
Francis Williams – Commercial & Field Programme Director .
Regards
From Mark Baulch | Assistant Secretary Outdoor Postal Department

[Dorset Plodder]

And I was going to come in on Christmas Day to try and help them out .... Ungrateful Bastards!

[Zicomurphy]

Just chiming in to say, with the hope that this thread is indeed seen by the powers that be, that I'm also one of the "minority" of offices where multiple duties are failing on a daily basis. We're so short staffed and are only staying above the water because we have a great number of employees continually working their day off and doing lots of OT. If you don't work your day off you will come back to a full frame and all but your tracked parcels from the previous day. I've never, in 15 years service, seen such and appalling disregard for delivery standards.

There really needs to be an expose on the s**t show that is royal mail these days. They claim to prioritise covid related deliveries but when duties don't go out, nor do vaccination letters, nor do nhs letters. I don't think the public are aware of how bad things are. This Christmas is going to be a horror show and whilst I am sorry for the customers that are going to suffer for it, I really do hope that things fall apart spectacularly and the man is held accountable. Employee survey asking if I feel proud to work for RM or would I recommend them to my friends or family? I've yet to meet a postie who doesn't think the company is awful. Other than a new start, sorry, they're soon enlightened though.

Royal Mail, already with some of the best resources in the world at their disposal, have failed to modernise and be a first class player in the delivery sector. Its a great big dinosaur of a company. A dinosaur with a shotgun. A dinosaur with a shotgun continually shooting itself in the foot. Treating long serving, full time staff with disdain and pressuring vulnerable part time staff to breaking point and beyond. Clueless management from top to bottom who never actually consider the view of the OPG on anything that truly matters. Trying to do way too many things and provide way too many services and doing them all badly as a result and then blaming the lack of effort from the front line staff every time.

I'll clear my frame if I have time or I want the overtime. I can't spend too much time going over when I've job hunting and interviews to do.

Good point about the public being largely unaware how bad things really are. It’s telling that the only products they really care about clearing are specials and tracked, the two products that the public can go online and track and see if they are at their local office to be delivered that day. If nothing else gets delivered the public have no way of knowing if that’s because they have no mail that day or if it’s just sat in the frame in the delivery office.

And, yeah, it’s pretty ironic that I only received this letter about clearing the office everyday this morning because the whole walk I live on didn’t get delivered on Saturday.

[priority102]

I am shocked to see you lot are commenting on here this evening when you should still be out clearing your respective offices!

[PostmanBitesDog]

I am shocked to see you lot are commenting on here this evening when you should still be out clearing your respective offices!

I know, it's shocking!

They've hardly even touched their deliveries. Lazy pillocks. All day on Royal Mail Chat.

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