Magistrate resigns after admitting postal fraud

[POSTMAN]

When was the last time you were in a DO 'properly' Tman?

[hubbahubba]

Ergo stamps are not cancelled because no one has been tasked to do it and no-one has spare capacity to do it without direction.

Operators are "tasked" with making sure the inkers and cancellers are operating correctly, so this 100% effort would see every stamp franked.
DO posties shouldn't be "tasked" with cancelling stamps as there's machines to do it, but there's enough posters asking staff to draw through unfranked stamps. Do staff really need that level of "direction" now?

What about packets?Regular for a manager on lates to tell staff to sort,wthout franking,if dispatch time is looming-they would rather clear,than fail for the sake of a few hundred packets.Wether thats right,well that's a different matter............

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Ergo stamps are not cancelled because no one has been tasked to do it and no-one has spare capacity to do it without direction.

Do staff really need that level of "direction" now?

No. However, the context of my post was "why aren't stamps cancelled" and my reply was an attempt to answer that, not whether posties need that kind of direction. That's probably a whole different topic.

[fishtank]

It must be at least 5-6 years since the subject of cancelling stamps was brought up by management in our D.O.
I think we've had maybe a 40% turnover in staff since then.
I doubt if any of then know why you would cancel a stamp.
When almost everything you handled had a stamp on it an unfranked item seemed to stick out like a sore thumb.
Now everything has something different in the top right-hand corner you tend to kind of...tune it out.

[Tman]

When was the last time you were in a DO 'properly' Tman?

Tuesday morning. Why do you ask?

[Pompey Boy]

Ergo stamps are not cancelled because no one has been tasked to do it and no-one has spare capacity to do it without direction.

Operators are "tasked" with making sure the inkers and cancellers are operating correctly, so this 100% effort would see every stamp franked.
DO posties shouldn't be "tasked" with cancelling stamps as there's machines to do it, but there's enough posters asking staff to draw through unfranked stamps. Do staff really need that level of "direction" now?

What about packets?Regular for a manager on lates to tell staff to sort,wthout franking,if dispatch time is looming-they would rather clear,than fail for the sake of a few hundred packets.Wether thats right,well that's a different matter............

A bit like the late IOW specials not being gunned in at Pompey then