New Delivery Span!?

[wolfie citizen smith]

Got a WTL session this morning and were told we are being moved up to a 5hr delivery span!
Template built on an East Belfast D.O. Goes along the lines of 30mins IPS! One hr prep! 25min tie up! Out for nine! Then onto a 5hr walk, whistling as we go .
Anybody out there from same office fill in the blanks or even any other office moving to the same plan.

P.S My smilies are down!

hold on its Feburary not April 01st

[wingmanchillian]

The CWU have not and will not agree to 5 hour spans etc.

However here is the issue and you can work it out for your office

If you dont have IPS sorting apart from packets and flats.As walk sequencing will do all your letters, and the second batch of work appox 40% of your work does not arrive in your office until as late as 10 in the morning. Plus if for every thousand letters on walk sequencing you save 19 mins on prep then in order to protect full time duties you have to look at a longer span and having door to door into workload.

Now in regards to longer spans the key must be that we remove bags from shoulders , remove cars from deliveries and whilst I am not convinced on the benefits of door to door as I dont believe you can match the loops right , Royal mail have invested 420 million pounds into this equipment and they believe that they work in most areas and use Haywards Heath as the sight where it works best. ( be intresting if someone from that office can enlighten us )

So you see if your indoor work is reducing from automation how else do you fill an 8 hour day ??????

Dingo if that really is the case then we might as well all get on the job hunt now. The union has been able to do absolutely nothing to protect full time jobs without the introduction of all this walk sequencing and you really think they can when its introduced?. If pushing people's health to the extreme is the best they can come up with i feel so let down its unbelievable.