Royal Mail contract.

Metalman · Post by **Metalman** » 03 Nov 2018, 13:14

I am currently with Angard, but I may soon be offered a Royal Mail contract of 15 hours a week. Bearing in mind that this would involve a fairly big pay rate reduction, does anybody think it is worth my while signing it ? Also, if I decide not to sign it, will I still remain with Angard ? Thanks in advance for any replies.

Failureisnotanoption · Post by **Failureisnotanoption** » 03 Nov 2018, 14:25

That’s your decision the new intake at my place got 20 hours contracts the take loads of overtime so it makes a good wage.i have applied once and didn’t get in even thou been there 4 plus years . I won’t apply again am happy doing the hours I want via Angard doing 3 x 8 hour night shifts is a good wage .

Failureisnotanoption · Post by **Failureisnotanoption** » 03 Nov 2018, 14:25

That’s your decision the new intake at my place got 20 hours contracts the take loads of overtime so it makes a good wage.i have applied once and didn’t get in even thou been there 4 plus years . I won’t apply again am happy doing the hours I want via Angard doing 3 x 8 hour night shifts is a good wage .

nothingatthemoment · Post by **nothingatthemoment** » 03 Nov 2018, 19:52

Failureisnotanoption wrote:That’s your decision the new intake at my place got 20 hours contracts the take loads of overtime so it makes a good wage.i have applied once and didn’t get in even thou been there 4 plus years . I won’t apply again am happy doing the hours I want via Angard doing 3 x 8 hour night shifts is a good wage .

From what I've heard R.M's plan is to phase out most of Angard , that's why there has been offers of part-time contracts at virtually every M.C.
Add to this the continued automation of mail processing ,will there any need for Angard in the future ?

NW11851 · Post by **NW11851** » 04 Nov 2018, 14:10

No sign of offers yet at Gatwick MC.

Post by **paulus103** » 05 Nov 2018, 14:17

Yeah at my mail centre there is constant speculation about the future of packet sorting e.g it is currently done manually but fear Warrington auto packet handling will absorb packets from different mail centres

NW11851 · Post by **NW11851** » 06 Nov 2018, 00:10

There’s a PSM being commissioned in Gatwick MC.

It seems a. It seems a bit hit-and-miss. Last werk’s Test run with live mail had a 17% reject rate - that’s worse than 1 in 5.

It wasnworkunf better on 5 November but it’s csysing chaos around the rest of the parcels operation.

Post by **Navalron** » 06 Nov 2018, 08:22

NW11851 wrote:There’s a PSM being commissioned in Gatwick MC.

It seems a. It seems a bit hit-and-miss. Last werk’s Test run with live mail had a 17% reject rate - that’s worse than 1 in 5.

It wasnworkunf better on 5 November but it’s csysing chaos around the rest of the parcels operation.

I think your maths are wrong. 17% is BETTER than 1 in 5 which is 20%.

NW11851 · Post by **NW11851** » 06 Nov 2018, 08:27

True. Thanks

Metalman · Post by **Metalman** » 13 Nov 2018, 16:12

Well I, and a few other mail sorters, signed in yesterday with the Royal Mail for the first time after a year with Angard, but I have not yet received a contract and I do not yet have a Royal Mail pay number. So what is going on?

Post by **Lockardian** » 14 Nov 2018, 02:15

A number of Angard employees at our MC were recruited by RM a couple of years ago. For several months they were still paid by Angard - the only difference being they were on set shifts. It took a while before they were transferred to RM properly.