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1st week The Pro's and cons of park and loop

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Cons........LWT..gaffers bullying, late getting out due to late finishing on IP thus late finishing on delivering..
Also loseing out on what Christmas tips I was hoping to get at the end of the year due to re-pick in the office.. :evil/mad

Pro's... Seeing work mates who took the piss in the job ( running/ early starts finishing early then they should ...EVEN earlier on Saturdays ) getting stressed out over little thing as there job has been changed :Boo hoo!

Customers on my round cant understand WHY 2 postie in the same street, :arrrghhh I told them there is a round that split 3 ways so if you drive down that street at the right time you will see 3 postmen delivering in the same street :crazy: .


IF IT'S NOT BROKE, WHY CHANGE IT..............
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twobags wrote:I dont know if this is a pro or a con , but because of the late finishing times went sat night to do shop at asda ,i kept bumping in to posties , we managed to see the funny side of it eventually.
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maisymoo04 wrote:
twobags wrote:I dont know if this is a pro or a con , but because of the late finishing times went sat night to do shop at asda ,i kept bumping in to posties , we managed to see the funny side of it eventually.
aldis better 2 bags :Very Happy
we aint got one fo them only a lidl :roll:
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park&lopp came in our office last week just on 1 section. ( we have 3) what a shambles. mail be brought back to office, walks not even going out, 7am starts but the section doing the the park&loop asked to come in 1hr earlier on o.t cuz managment know it can't be achieved and still mail is brought back. surely this is wilfull delay ? joe publics mail not going out. can't believe what is going on worst i've ever seen at royal mail, someone with authority should stand up and stop all this before it all goes tits up. get the papers involved, get reporters at offices to see for thmselves as to whats going on.
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started p&l today! what a joke, did not start our round's till 11:10 :Applause, trolley's a complete joke! id say atleast 5times slower than a pouch,my knees,lower back&shoulder are shot to s**t after 1 day and im a 27yearold fit chap! brought back over half of the 2nd walk to office at finish time 2:40,believe me this trolley thing will kil this company off!
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2nd day of p&l went as follows: quite a light day but had to take half of the walk we brought bk yesterday as it was left in the office so that made it very heavy on one part, anyway me & my partner brought bk about half of one of the walks & it will still be there 2moz so god knows what we will be bringing back 2moz on a heavy day :arrrghhh we have not even had our pkt loop put on yet and we are missing 2 streets at the mo to! the jobs these planners give you are way way way to big for a trolley! :crazy:
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every time i come on the site its great to know its working in all offices!!!!!! when are royal mail going to realise its all a total waste of money, HEADS SHOULD ROLL.
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halfull wrote:2nd day of p&l went as follows: quite a light day but had to take half of the walk we brought bk yesterday as it was left in the office so that made it very heavy on one part, anyway me & my partner brought bk about half of one of the walks & it will still be there 2moz so god knows what we will be bringing back 2moz on a heavy day :arrrghhh we have not even had our pkt loop put on yet and we are missing 2 streets at the mo to! the jobs these planners give you are way way way to big for a trolley! :crazy:
good luck with tomorrow are they giving you any scope to adapt the round short term to clear any of the build up,or giving you any help :roll:
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twobags wrote:
halfull wrote:2nd day of p&l went as follows: quite a light day but had to take half of the walk we brought bk yesterday as it was left in the office so that made it very heavy on one part, anyway me & my partner brought bk about half of one of the walks & it will still be there 2moz so god knows what we will be bringing back 2moz on a heavy day :arrrghhh we have not even had our pkt loop put on yet and we are missing 2 streets at the mo to! the jobs these planners give you are way way way to big for a trolley! :crazy:
good luck with tomorrow are they giving you any scope to adapt the round short term to clear any of the build up,or giving you any help :roll:
no help,they are just saying what you bring back today go there 1st 2moz :crazy: thats wilful delay in my book! plus how are you saving time when you have to open the previous days budles up and throw um bk in :arrrghhh :arrrghhh wish me luck for today.
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3rd day went as follows: pretty heavy day,had to go to the places we brought bk yes 1st as it wz left for us again(wilful delay), and guess what? yep you guessed we brought bk well over half of one of the walks!! so i say again,the jobs are to big!! :crazy:
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Hey our office due to have P@L in soon some senior posties have lost there walks do they have to have a re sign on who gets what walk?
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cooper11 wrote:Hey our office due to have P@L in soon some senior posties have lost there walks do they have to have a re sign on who gets what walk?
we had e resign about 6 weeks before p l come in it was farcical as ours was delayed because of various issues ,at the resign sadly some of the older senior posties took retirment rather than the choices they had
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halfull wrote:3rd day went as follows: pretty heavy day,had to go to the places we brought bk yes 1st as it wz left for us again(wilful delay), and guess what? yep you guessed we brought bk well over half of one of the walks!! so i say again,the jobs are to big!! :crazy:
they may be leaving it up to you to decide on cutting off but they are choosing not to help you or giving you a choice, them not acting to help you is them willfully delaying mail not you the managers in our office have often willfully delayed mail.have they started to tell you to do ips as your mech turns up, something they agreed wouldnt happen and is not in the timing of the duty :arrrghhh
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cooper11 wrote:Hey our office due to have P@L in soon some senior posties have lost there walks do they have to have a re sign on who gets what walk?
*Wouldn't all of this of been told at various meetings you guys were having.

*Yeah yeah i know,but you have to ask don't you.
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POSTMAN wrote:
cooper11 wrote:Hey our office due to have P@L in soon some senior posties have lost there walks do they have to have a re sign on who gets what walk?
*Wouldn't all of this of been told at various meetings you guys were having.

*Yeah yeah i know,but you have to ask don't you.
i know its not wilful delay from us! its the managers that are delaying the post not me! im working my contracted hours and doing nothing wrong in bringing it back! they know we are gonna be over but they just dont care cz even the lino's know the jobs are too big with a trolley!