The "How was your day" thread.

dohnut · Post by **dohnut** » 20 Jun 2020, 17:11

No signs of it letting up, at least on my walk, finish time 1.30 I finished 3.30, and left 2 bags, anyway couple of weeks off to forget about royal mail.

PostmanBitesDog · Post by **PostmanBitesDog** » 20 Jun 2020, 21:17

Post by **Jack1960** » 22 Jun 2020, 17:47

One of the lightest days I've ever had, even with the packets my round barely took 2 hours , I had one small bundle for roads with. 130 delivery points .

sindba · Post by **sindba** » 22 Jun 2020, 18:00

Absolutely ridiculous. Never seen the mail so light.

Could almost fit a whole frame of mail in 1 or 2 bundles, no exaggeration.

2yearpostie · Post by **2yearpostie** » 22 Jun 2020, 18:12

Other end of the scale here, had to use two bags per loop, one for mail one for parcels

Grumpyoldmailman · Post by **Grumpyoldmailman** » 22 Jun 2020, 19:42

Only mail there seemed to be was UKMail and our own (which is not a lot anymore), think Whistl are only entering into the network Monday/Wednesday/Friday so I would think tomorrow is going to be a busy one. You would hope the sales team are out telling the customers who they stole away that they are only getting a 3 day a week service with them.

Ren Hoëk · Post by **Ren Hoëk** » 23 Jun 2020, 07:57

Grumpyoldmailman wrote:Only mail there seemed to be was UKMail and our own (which is not a lot anymore), think Whistl are only entering into the network Monday/Wednesday/Friday so I would think tomorrow is going to be a busy one. You would hope the sales team are out telling the customers who they stole away that they are only getting a 3 day a week service with them.

That would explain why that last two Mondays have been so light! Let see what happens today.

Mr Rush · Post by **Mr Rush** » 23 Jun 2020, 17:00

Packets are like a motorway pile-up. Can't shift stuff that's been sitting there since last week because more keeps ploughing into the office. Is it Christmas Day yet?

blacov · Post by **blacov** » 24 Jun 2020, 16:01

Mega busy with parcels today + current heat wave made it unbearable to work. One of the hardest day in a long time.

Sir Henry · Post by **Sir Henry** » 24 Jun 2020, 20:57

This week I have 5 days of delivering 2 days worth of mail.
The Lino moans when I say I need refill dropping off. I know, it MUST be my shite packing that stops 2 days of mail and 2 days of d/d fitting into an HCT.
The driver moans that he has to drop it off and moans when I ask him to take undelivered parcels and post box collections back. Won't wait for me to unpack the bags into the HCT so I'm stuck with finding room for the bags too.
Tomorrow the f****r can bring me one bag at a time instead of all of them at once. See if that suits him better.

c***s everywhere.

Post by **HTPostman** » 25 Jun 2020, 05:07

Sir Henry wrote:This week I have 5 days of delivering 2 days worth of mail.
The Lino moans when I say I need refill dropping off. I know, it MUST be my shite packing that stops 2 days of mail and 2 days of d/d fitting into an HCT.
The driver moans that he has to drop it off and moans when I ask him to take undelivered parcels and post box collections back. Won't wait for me to unpack the bags into the HCT so I'm stuck with finding room for the bags too.
Tomorrow the f****r can bring me one bag at a time instead of all of them at once. See if that suits him better.

c***s everywhere.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - we can blame line managers, DOMs, the union, Rico and Moya, Dave and Terry and anyone else we want...but when it comes down to it we shaft each other just so we can get done quicker. Maybe offer to swap roles with the driver, you’ll do his round in the van and he can take the HCT, see how he copes with that.

Hope you have a better day and your driver enjoys dropping the bags off one by one.

twoloops · Post by **twoloops** » 25 Jun 2020, 15:25

Anyone get a Lump Sum (NPen) payment in todays payslip? Anyone know what it is?

Post by **HTPostman** » 25 Jun 2020, 16:33

twoloops wrote:Anyone get a Lump Sum (NPen) payment in todays payslip? Anyone know what it is?

It’s the one off bonus/covid19 payment.

Post by **HTPostman** » 25 Jun 2020, 19:13

Another warm day today, it felt hotter than yesterday although not as exhausting, maybe it’s because there was a breeze or it was a bit lighter.

The garden dwellers are on overdrive now, locking side gates etc so you can’t get anywhere near them and you end up slipping their packets.

Also had another case of the Marie Celeste, on the same street as last time it happened - I had a special, door was open, I knocked, rang bells called up the stairs, went round the back saw the back doors open, car keys on the table. Back round the front knocked again. No sign of anyone. And people wonder how criminals are able to sneak in and help themselves to wallets, phones, cars etc.

PostmanBitesDog · Post by **PostmanBitesDog** » 25 Jun 2020, 19:25

It was my day off today, so...

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