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Letter to union outlining workers concerns

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first_class_stamp
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Joined: 27 Feb 2008, 17:40

Re: Letter to union outlining workers concerns

Post by first_class_stamp »

Bernardson wrote:IPS

The amount of IPS in your office is determined by the office needs only a certain amount of hours can be set against this task, it may be that your duty does incorperate some IPS.
The part timers in our office do some IPS but as they start later it is just on the second wave.
You may have missed the major issue of why that there is more part time duties in the buisness that of falling traffic levels (allegedley) and mech sorting meaning less full time people needed on the job.

I'm not missing the point at all. It is because there are less full time posts at our office that the part times are now expected to go onto the IPS. Every time they take hours out of our office they hammer the IPS. We have complained about it for years. We need more full time positions in our office. The IPS is the main bottleneck in our office. The lack of IPS sorters in our office is the reason we don't get out the office early enough to complete our deliveries on time. Walk sequencing has made prep quicker but that has been absorbed by bigger deliveries and more door to doors. Add onto that part timers doing IPS and you have an impossible task of completing your delivery within your allocated hours. It's just a f***ing joke m8.
jack
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Joined: 28 Aug 2007, 14:32

Re: Letter to union outlining workers concerns

Post by jack »

first_class_stamp wrote:
jack wrote:
Bernardson wrote:IPS



For example 30 hr contract 7.00 am start, 2 hrs throw in and prep, kill offs re - directions would take you to 9.00am.
15 minutes travelling to first delivery point 9.15, somewhere inbetween 30 minute meal relief. 3.5 hour delivery would take you to 13.15 - travel time back 15 minutes - over by 10 minutes.

And if your a reserve on a blind walk you could probably add an hour to that!!
None of the duties in our office are 3 1/2 hours delivery. Are they still meant to be 3 1/2 hours? The deliveries in our office ranger between 4 and 4 1/2 hours i think at a push maybe there might be three duties that are close to 3 1/2 hours on a light day. Can we get the duties timed? I really would like to get the duties in our office timed.
If i wouldn't of cut off today my duty would have taken 4 hrs and we aint doing the van sharing yet, but on a light to medium day i'm usually looking at 3.5hrs to complete.
I think various offices all differ to how they are run/managed, posties who have transfered into our office say the walks seem bigger compared to their previous offices!!

I don't know if walks are still tested these days, someone can probably shed some light on that issue.
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