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The "How was your day" thread.

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Big Daz
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We ran out of work today, got in at 6.40 and the troops were standing around with nowt to do.

The mail centre have devloped a nasty habit of sending the mail as and when they want, thelast van is very incosistent in its arrival time and virtually all the walksorted mail is coming through on the last van half the week and the other half of the week its in the middle vans. Yesterday walksorted mail/last van on time today both are late, proably be the same for the next few days then back to on time.

The mbrs at my D.O are getting very fed up with it!!!

Once can only hope the managers at the mail centre learn the meaning of the word consistent before we do a revision.
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bad day.........
ended up as cover at a sub office on a new estate with 7 roads all running off each other and no road names.
Ended up delivering 2 streets completley wrong, bearing in mind the map that was hand drawn for me had the street names wrong.... :arrrghhh
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doubleA wrote:bad day.........
ended up as cover at a sub office on a new estate with 7 roads all running off each other and no road names.
Ended up delivering 2 streets completley wrong, bearing in mind the map that was hand drawn for me had the street names wrong.... :arrrghhh
Oh No! :d'oh!
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Another quiet one today. Even less on the yesterday, incxluding the packets. :Very Happy
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Post by dre33dd »

quiet today.but....
yet again only one bloody sorting rest of us sorting rounds up
when will rm learn that there is only so far we can be pushed!!!
people will hopefully soon actually stand up and say no!!!!!!!!!!
glad i am on leave after next week for 3 loverly weeks!!!!
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Quitest tues in ages which meant that even with the dreaded lapsing i had time on my hands to work the old way and stop and spend some time chatting to customers. So i stopped a few times and really enjoyed the relaxed walk around and even when it rained i sat in the van. :nana

Got back to office 12.40am and prob could have knocked the 40 min off that. All managers gone (which suits me) so i prepped a few d2d's as its bound to be busy tommorrow. :sad:
Rows of houses all bearing down on me........I can feel their blue hands touching me.......All these things in all positions.........All these things will one day take control..........
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Well we paid for that easy tue's today as there was loads and loads. Finished 13.45 knackered :sad:
Rows of houses all bearing down on me........I can feel their blue hands touching me.......All these things in all positions.........All these things will one day take control..........
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The only word I can think of for summing up today is...............s**t!
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets


Illegitimi non carborundum
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Pay back time. Did lapsing too, and the gaffer will be paying for it. :Very Happy
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A much cooler day which helped a lot. Not as much as yesterday but still lapsing on top so it seemed no better.

There is talk of canceling the missort run and adding another duty to the absorbtion which would involve taking out a 4/5th of a walk :shock: This will put me over :nana
Rows of houses all bearing down on me........I can feel their blue hands touching me.......All these things in all positions.........All these things will one day take control..........
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heavy day.......finished at 3 started at 7:30. although i did manage not to deliver to any wrong streets...........bonus.......... :nana
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doubleA wrote:heavy day.......finished at 3 started at 7:30. although i did manage not to deliver to any wrong streets...........bonus.......... :nana
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krussel wrote:A much cooler day which helped a lot. Not as much as yesterday but still lapsing on top so it seemed no better.

There is talk of canceling the missort run and adding another duty to the absorbtion which would involve taking out a 4/5th of a walk :shock: This will put me over :nana
:shock: So that's the reason behind cancelling the mis-sort run! Absorb another duty!!!
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Worst day for years :sad: When we got audited a year or so ago we were going beyond the sorting rates required. Today with only 50% sorters available we apparently are no longer up to spec. :sad: :sad:

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stokes11eg wrote:
krussel wrote:A much cooler day which helped a lot. Not as much as yesterday but still lapsing on top so it seemed no better.

There is talk of canceling the missort run and adding another duty to the absorbtion which would involve taking out a 4/5th of a walk :shock: This will put me over :nana
:shock: So that's the reason behind cancelling the mis-sort run! Absorb another duty!!!

Yep this is what they recon. We are down to 6 to a duty now and thats getting tough but if we go down to only 4 were going to be taking out 150 + calls on some duties. Because the mail has been at lighter summer levels ive been getting round ok even with the absorbtion but a forth will take me over.
I just hope others will see sense and not start getting in even earlier to get round. :arrrghhh

Our dom just keeps saying "its just an idea" but she,s said this before and it come true :cry
Rows of houses all bearing down on me........I can feel their blue hands touching me.......All these things in all positions.........All these things will one day take control..........