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Yorkies!!!!!

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Re: Yorkies!!!!!

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Stampy wrote:One of my colleagues got took in the office last night after taking a photo of the pile of bags dumped on the floor next to a Fire Exit....

This, just so our FSM could get some Yorks...
I wish they are taking them away from us.. :arrrghhh
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Re: Yorkies!!!!!

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This is what we are using now......

http://www.loadhoglids.com/lidandpally/index.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Yorkies!!!!!

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we seem to be getting most stuff come into the office in RSCs now, it'll probably only be a matter of time (probably before xmas) when we get a shift not send out any dispatches through having nothing to dispatch the work on/in, and MCs actually had that happen?
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Re: Yorkies!!!!!

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SpacePhoenix wrote:we seem to be getting most stuff come into the office in RSCs now, it'll probably only be a matter of time (probably before xmas) when we get a shift not send out any dispatches through having nothing to dispatch the work on/in, and MCs actually had that happen?

We had RSCs coming into the DO last week :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:
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Re: Yorkies!!!!!

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I dread to think what our MC will look like tonight when I go in...

It was bad enough when I left at 6 on Sunday morning.... :hmmmm
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Think yourselves lucky you're not getting the mail in RCCs. We've been getting them for weeks now, despite assurances, every year that it's the last year we'll see them. They're just so dangerous. Particularly when tipping a trailer, with double stacked RCCs!
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Re: Yorkies!!!!!

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I actually paid 50pence for a York last Friday... got about 20mins use our of it before some thieving casual stole it and then had his friend who is manager tell me to drop the issue and find another one.
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Re: Yorkies!!!!!

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Swinder wrote:I actually paid 50pence for a York last Friday... got about 20mins use our of it before some thieving casual stole it and then had his friend who is manager tell me to drop the issue and find another one.
I really hope youre taking the p***.otherwise youre taking the p***! :crazy:
same as it ever was...
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pacman123 wrote:This is what we are using now......

http://www.loadhoglids.com/lidandpally/index.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



using em here aswell pretty sure TNT use them whats the SSOW for this H&S i believe say 7 high ??
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Re: Yorkies!!!!!

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The Yorkie problem still has'nt improved,the big problem is our mail center(Watford)has so much work going through the system at the moment,all the DO's it feeds can not keep up,therefore work is sitting in the yorks at many DO's,some DO's have even turned our 600cf drivers away,refuseing the loads as the amount of work stored is causeing health & safety issues.

Never seen it this bad in my 30 years service,some of our managers dont seem to be bothered about it,mind you with our mail center merging with 2 others many of them know they'll be on their way out of the door soon,some were hoping for buy downs,but i think Royal Mail will use the mail center cull/merge to cut managers and therefore reduce the wage bill.
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disheartened wrote:The Yorkie problem still has'nt improved,the big problem is our mail center(Watford)has so much work going through the system at the moment,all the DO's it feeds can not keep up,therefore work is sitting in the yorks at many DO's,some DO's have even turned our 600cf drivers away,refuseing the loads as the amount of work stored is causeing health & safety issues.

Never seen it this bad in my 30 years service,some of our managers dont seem to be bothered about it,mind you with our mail center merging with 2 others many of them know they'll be on their way out of the door soon,some were hoping for buy downs,but i think Royal Mail will use the mail center cull/merge to cut managers and therefore reduce the wage bill.
We have dozens of yorks sitting but the drivers leave before taking them all, so just send a lorry to us and you can have them :-)
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Re: Yorkies!!!!!

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DGP1 wrote:
disheartened wrote:The Yorkie problem still has'nt improved,the big problem is our mail center(Watford)has so much work going through the system at the moment,all the DO's it feeds can not keep up,therefore work is sitting in the yorks at many DO's,some DO's have even turned our 600cf drivers away,refuseing the loads as the amount of work stored is causeing health & safety issues.

Never seen it this bad in my 30 years service,some of our managers dont seem to be bothered about it,mind you with our mail center merging with 2 others many of them know they'll be on their way out of the door soon,some were hoping for buy downs,but i think Royal Mail will use the mail center cull/merge to cut managers and therefore reduce the wage bill.
We have dozens of yorks sitting but the drivers leave before taking them all, so just send a lorry to us and you can have them :-)


where are you based DGP1 and i will come and get them if you are close enough.
who the hell invests £2 billion into a servic and makes it worse?????????????
you really couldn't make it up!!!!!!!!!!!
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youwot!!!!! wrote:
DGP1 wrote:
disheartened wrote:The Yorkie problem still has'nt improved,the big problem is our mail center(Watford)has so much work going through the system at the moment,all the DO's it feeds can not keep up,therefore work is sitting in the yorks at many DO's,some DO's have even turned our 600cf drivers away,refuseing the loads as the amount of work stored is causeing health & safety issues.

Never seen it this bad in my 30 years service,some of our managers dont seem to be bothered about it,mind you with our mail center merging with 2 others many of them know they'll be on their way out of the door soon,some were hoping for buy downs,but i think Royal Mail will use the mail center cull/merge to cut managers and therefore reduce the wage bill.
We have dozens of yorks sitting but the drivers leave before taking them all, so just send a lorry to us and you can have them :-)


where are you based DGP1 and i will come and get them if you are close enough.
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Re: Yorkies!!!!!

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DGP1 wrote:
disheartened wrote:The Yorkie problem still has'nt improved,the big problem is our mail center(Watford)has so much work going through the system at the moment,all the DO's it feeds can not keep up,therefore work is sitting in the yorks at many DO's,some DO's have even turned our 600cf drivers away,refuseing the loads as the amount of work stored is causeing health & safety issues.

Never seen it this bad in my 30 years service,some of our managers dont seem to be bothered about it,mind you with our mail center merging with 2 others many of them know they'll be on their way out of the door soon,some were hoping for buy downs,but i think Royal Mail will use the mail center cull/merge to cut managers and therefore reduce the wage bill.
We have dozens of yorks sitting but the drivers leave before taking them all, so just send a lorry to us and you can have them :-)
It's probably down to time constraints, often another driver will be waiting at the the MC to take the same van somewhere else. Another thing that seems to be running out, boxes. I've seen mech staff having to hunt around the MC for boxes a lot, with walk sequencing the mech staff need a lot more boxes. Flats are real busy and probably need a load of boxes too.
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Re: Yorkies!!!!!

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SpacePhoenix wrote:
DGP1 wrote:
disheartened wrote:The Yorkie problem still has'nt improved,the big problem is our mail center(Watford)has so much work going through the system at the moment,all the DO's it feeds can not keep up,therefore work is sitting in the yorks at many DO's,some DO's have even turned our 600cf drivers away,refuseing the loads as the amount of work stored is causeing health & safety issues.

Never seen it this bad in my 30 years service,some of our managers dont seem to be bothered about it,mind you with our mail center merging with 2 others many of them know they'll be on their way out of the door soon,some were hoping for buy downs,but i think Royal Mail will use the mail center cull/merge to cut managers and therefore reduce the wage bill.
We have dozens of yorks sitting but the drivers leave before taking them all, so just send a lorry to us and you can have them :-)
It's probably down to time constraints, often another driver will be waiting at the the MC to take the same van somewhere else. Another thing that seems to be running out, boxes. I've seen mech staff having to hunt around the MC for boxes a lot, with walk sequencing the mech staff need a lot more boxes. Flats are real busy and probably need a load of boxes too.
Most of our yorks are filled with perstops too and all our flats came down in bags from Christmas, NIMC just sends these things out no matter what.
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