The "How was your day" thread.

[L Tommo]

:lfo :cfo

[ray of sunshine]

Came in at 5.50am.Went onto the ips at 6am, came off ips at 7.45am. five boxes of mail.Told my line manager i was doing to time.Left a bag in.He says it will be waiting for me tomorrow
Leaves at 10.15am.There was me the only one still in the office AGAIN!
Gets down at 10.30am
Last letter was 13.20am
Got a customer's funeral tomorrow at 2pm,she doesnt mind me turning up in the uniform
best foot forward tomorrow with a sign on my head
TOO BUSY TOO TALK!

[Post Off]

Luckily, this is my 2nd rest day, otherwise it would have been my 2nd day off sick, mostly thanks to there being no heating in our orifice all of Monday and most of Tuesday. So, thanks a lot there RM -- you bunch o' tossers!

Fortunately, it's only (I believe?) a mini flu, as I have had colds and the flu before. I feel a bit better now, but I know that I'm going to feel like sh*t when I go in on the Friday.

[ray of sunshine]

Left another bag in today.
Gets back to office and surprise surprise its still there
going to be VERY HEAVY tomorrow, 8 cages of mail appeared at 8m and more due in later.
here donkey donkey!!!!!

[TrueBlueTerrier]

I had 15 bags today but the shop would not let me leave them till tomorrow - why doesn't this working to rules work on our day off.

[OMV 5]

were doing our work as per 318 on my driving section and were getting some strange looks from our fellow motorway user a royal mail van not speeding and letting traffic and driving as a pro thats for you BIG AL under work and over payed very good :cfo as i said to a dom were the same workers as last week but you have moved the goal posts again so good luck to one and all

[majeed]

effin nightmare even my docket was fucke? up because the muppet didnt number the bundles didnt put them in order and loose bits everywhere,starter motor on van is playing up and nearly ran out of diesel,even had to fill a bottle thanks to a lack of quiet bushes,started early, finished too late,had to cut off from my docket

...explain???

[majeed]

first letter 0715 last letter 0945.

was 2 bags but they were full. also chain went on the bike so had to push it back to the office! the state of our bikes is a disgrace.

...so not everything is wonderful in the magical land of Margate, then?

[majeed]

DID MINE AND 1 ON DOCKET,NO ACTION AT OUR PLACE YET I WOULD LIKE TO ADD,DOCKET MUST HAVE BEEN THROWN OFF AND BUNDLED BY A BLOKE IN A BLIDFOLD WHICH WILL COME IN HANDY AS I AM GOING TO PUT HIM AGAINST A WALL AND SHOOT THE USELESS TWIT FIRST THING IN THE MORNING
SO TO SUM IT ALL UP A CRAP DAY ALL ROUND AND IT STARTED TO RAIN AS I GOT OUT THE DOOR AND IT AINT STOPPED YET,ONCE AGAIN I THANK YOU OH GOD OF RAIN AND MAILSORT AND BT BILLS FOR THE GIFTS YOU HAVE SHOWERED ON ME TODAY

> How often does the mail get bundled-up incorrectly?

[majeed]

Yesterday and today not too bad at all and I've got a fay off tomorow. However one thing realy gets my goat and it happened today. Why do those other people who put leaflets in peoples letter boxes leave them half hanging out. It makes the round take longer as its more awkward to put the mail in. Today I got so pissed off about it I started to take them out and leave them where they fell. Litter bug.

LOL

[majeed]

Bit weird again today walk itself busy but not heavy so finished on Time. But IPS sorting up to limit and there was still 2 yorkies in our section to do. He told us to go back to frames - must have been worried about mass cut off's.

> Forgive my ignorance, but I have been reading this thread from the beginning and I have sort of got the idea that the 'callers office' is that place where we go to collect parcels and items that were undelivered. I have not, though, been able to work out what is a 'yorkie' or a 'york'.

> What is a 'york'?

[majeed]

Absolutely C R A P day they stuck me in Callers office.

Four questions:

1. Why is the Callers' Office such a horrible job and
2. Was that duty instead of or after your post round and
3. If your answer to 2. was 'after', how soon after you'd done your post round were you called to work in the office and
4. What time did you finish in the office before you could go home?

[majeed]

2 major incidents in sw4 today,A massive fight on one of the council estates last night/early morning,2 people dead (stabbed) and a few in hospital serious wounds e.t.c.,
Remember the young kid Billy cox who was shot dead the other month in his house,the police nicked a 20 year old lad today after a raid on a property just off Clapham high street,It was on my walk,s**t one of my customers
Oh yeah it was lumpy on my walk as well.

Sorry to read about the death.

> When you say, 'lumpy', what does that mean?

[majeed]

Not too bad today, alot of mailsort from yesterday, the full timers just throw in my M/S anywhere not even the same road sometimes(w*****s).
we have a sort of them and us situation in my office, it's hard enough battling managers let alone trying to battle the staff you work with, Because i do 30 mins less sorting and don't have to wait for missort's and can then get out by about 7am to 7:30am not 8:30 they get the right dog about it, they say i should throw in my own M/S for the next day and the managers say not, but if the boot was on the other foot i wounder if they would do the same?
i think not

> What are 'missort's'?

[majeed]

...I got the trots half way round...

...how often does that happen to the average postie?