LTB 078/17 - Royal Mail & CWU National Joint Statement Avoiding Delay (Commit to Deliver) and Reporting Standards

[SpacePhoenix]

Lack of available drivers.

We get agency drivers in if we're going to be short on drivers. Only time we end up really short on drivers is once a year when a load are doing their anual CPC stuff

Lack of available/suitable trucks.

RM are moving over to using 17tonners for the busiest DOs

delays in processing including machine breakdowns

Depending on how bad the breakdown is, it'll just go walk sort only or as manual (iLSMs have a sort plan that sorts to basic office level only, don't know if IMPs have anything like that

staff shortages

RM just get casuals in (normal staff are always outnumbered by casuals now (at least on my shift)

late arrivals.

If it arrives too late then just the SDs and maybe Tracked will get processed, everything else from the late arrival will be left (if earlies process it then it might go out on a 600 doing a collection run from a DO, don't know if they do or not)

container condensing when there's 18 Yorks to put into a 15 York 600.

Condensing is normally done by processing staff during the final dispatch. Only condensing the drivers might do is with the boxes of mech and manual letters and flats

It's a daily and nightly occurrence , our feeds are all +\- 30 minutes and it's nothing to do with traffic.

Could well be different in each MC, depending on what a MC's MCM wants to happen

[Dorset Plodder]

Could well be different in each MC, depending on what a MC's MCM wants to happen

As always your insights into the mysterys of the Mail Centre are appreciated SP. I don't want to get into the Blame Game. The examples you give may well be the cause of some of these problems. The point I was trying to make is that if Royal Mail want to really sort this business out and start making more money then they need to be sorting out these kinds of problems, and not just accept that they happen.

[SpacePhoenix]

Traffic forecasts I believe are done by looking at past levels for a given day for each mail stream but with covid, forecasting is impossible, with traffic levels not following trends of previous years

[ViperF]

Impossible to do this, when you start at 1pm and there are no mangers past 1.45 to report to.

[Ad_bee]

Impossible to do this, when you start at 1pm and there are no mangers past 1.45 to report to.

It is possible.

Forget the pantomime of discussing with mngmt before leaving the office because they are well trained and very well practised in the arts of stonewalling, gaslighting and semantics so nobodies ever going to win that fight, so leave it alone.

We win with the inforseen overunning delivery procedure which is to call-in via the PDA, and inform before 3PM so it can be recorded.

Sure, the mnngmnt may try to start a bullshit pantomime converstation but simply report and terminate the call as per the directions.

They can do with the information as they wish but the OPG has called in and has reported and the call is logged on the PDA and the algorithm is satisfied.

...in theory.

They do not like this method, they prefer the 'conversation' wherin they can deploy the afore mentioned training and also they're supposed to log it officially as a USO failure and they don't like to do that.

[guardianangel]

This makes me laugh so much last week our managers stacked up yorks of mail behind our frames failing everyday yet continue to bully and harass you to complete an unachievable delivery.Nothing has changed in years and yet here we are again.

[Chelseablue]

Back to photos on the gate again

[POSTMAN]

Given these improvements, and in light of recent reductions in the level of legal restrictions across the UK, we consider that the regulatory emergency period should be treated as coming to an end on 31 August 2021. Accordingly, normal regulatory arrangements will apply from 1 September 2021.

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[pieoftheday]

Well when was the last time any of that was adhered to?, chuffin hilarious, 'end of day report ' 15.00