If I could ask a question it would be why do we still have 9am specials when we dont leave the office till 10am?
Wouldnt it be better to kill 9am and 1pm off and make a next day 5pm product?
The idea is to go out and do them before 9am regardless of what time you go out.
Things 'should' be in place in case of these circumstances, there are a lot of 'shoulds' in Royal Mail.
You shouldn't be doing them at 9 anyway, it's 11... viewtopic.php?p=947219#p947219
Plus answer the PM I sent you!
So in a company that obsessed with efficiency to get the weekly hours down they want you to come in at 8, go out and do your 9am specials, come back, throw your walk in, go back out ( and to the same address as your 9am with ordinary mail) cut off to do your 1pm specials then go back on route and go to the 1pm special house for a 2nd time?
Also our dom says its back to 9am/1pm specials 1st sept.
If I could ask a question it would be why do we still have 9am specials when we dont leave the office till 10am?
Wouldnt it be better to kill 9am and 1pm off and make a next day 5pm product?
The idea is to go out and do them before 9am regardless of what time you go out.
Things 'should' be in place in case of these circumstances, there are a lot of 'shoulds' in Royal Mail.
You shouldn't be doing them at 9 anyway, it's 11... viewtopic.php?p=947219#p947219
Plus answer the PM I sent you!
So in a company that obsessed with efficiency to get the weekly hours down they want you to come in at 8, go out and do your 9am specials, come back, throw your walk in, go back out ( and to the same address as your 9am with ordinary mail) cut off to do your 1pm specials then go back on route and go to the 1pm special house for a 2nd time?
Also our dom says its back to 9am/1pm specials 1st sept.
What's the alternative, the RM pay the customer compo as they failed to meet the 9am deadline for delivery?
If I could ask a question it would be why do we still have 9am specials when we dont leave the office till 10am?
Wouldnt it be better to kill 9am and 1pm off and make a next day 5pm product?
The idea is to go out and do them before 9am regardless of what time you go out.
Things 'should' be in place in case of these circumstances, there are a lot of 'shoulds' in Royal Mail.
You shouldn't be doing them at 9 anyway, it's 11... viewtopic.php?p=947219#p947219
Plus answer the PM I sent you!
So in a company that obsessed with efficiency to get the weekly hours down they want you to come in at 8, go out and do your 9am specials, come back, throw your walk in, go back out ( and to the same address as your 9am with ordinary mail) cut off to do your 1pm specials then go back on route and go to the 1pm special house for a 2nd time?
Also our dom says its back to 9am/1pm specials 1st sept.
What's the alternative, the RM pay the customer compo as they failed to meet the 9am deadline for delivery?
Alternative? Scrap 9am and 1pm ( as we arent out at 7am like we used to be), replace with a by 4pm.
If I could ask a question it would be why do we still have 9am specials when we dont leave the office till 10am?
Wouldnt it be better to kill 9am and 1pm off and make a next day 5pm product?
The idea is to go out and do them before 9am regardless of what time you go out.
Things 'should' be in place in case of these circumstances, there are a lot of 'shoulds' in Royal Mail.
You shouldn't be doing them at 9 anyway, it's 11... viewtopic.php?p=947219#p947219
Plus answer the PM I sent you!
So in a company that obsessed with efficiency to get the weekly hours down they want you to come in at 8, go out and do your 9am specials, come back, throw your walk in, go back out ( and to the same address as your 9am with ordinary mail) cut off to do your 1pm specials then go back on route and go to the 1pm special house for a 2nd time?
Also our dom says its back to 9am/1pm specials 1st sept.
The office I work in its part of someone's job to deliver the 9am Specials, surely if you do a 1pm special you would take the mail with it , how many 9am specials does your office get ?
If I could ask a question it would be why do we still have 9am specials when we dont leave the office till 10am?
Wouldnt it be better to kill 9am and 1pm off and make a next day 5pm product?
The idea is to go out and do them before 9am regardless of what time you go out.
Things 'should' be in place in case of these circumstances, there are a lot of 'shoulds' in Royal Mail.
You shouldn't be doing them at 9 anyway, it's 11... viewtopic.php?p=947219#p947219
Plus answer the PM I sent you!
So in a company that obsessed with efficiency to get the weekly hours down they want you to come in at 8, go out and do your 9am specials, come back, throw your walk in, go back out ( and to the same address as your 9am with ordinary mail) cut off to do your 1pm specials then go back on route and go to the 1pm special house for a 2nd time?
Also our dom says its back to 9am/1pm specials 1st sept.
The office I work in its part of someone's job to deliver the 9am Specials, surely if you do a 1pm special you would take the mail with it , how many 9am specials does your office get ?
For DOs that cover towns, RM should send someone out with all the specials in a van and any other mail available at the time for the places due a delivery of an SD item
If I could ask a question it would be why do we still have 9am specials when we dont leave the office till 10am?
Wouldnt it be better to kill 9am and 1pm off and make a next day 5pm product?
The idea is to go out and do them before 9am regardless of what time you go out.
Things 'should' be in place in case of these circumstances, there are a lot of 'shoulds' in Royal Mail.
You shouldn't be doing them at 9 anyway, it's 11... viewtopic.php?p=947219#p947219
Plus answer the PM I sent you!
So in a company that obsessed with efficiency to get the weekly hours down they want you to come in at 8, go out and do your 9am specials, come back, throw your walk in, go back out ( and to the same address as your 9am with ordinary mail) cut off to do your 1pm specials then go back on route and go to the 1pm special house for a 2nd time?
Also our dom says its back to 9am/1pm specials 1st sept.
What's the alternative, the RM pay the customer compo as they failed to meet the 9am deadline for delivery?
Alternative? Scrap 9am and 1pm ( as we arent out at 7am like we used to be), replace with a by 4pm.
Isn't that the hoped for outcome of the Ofcom review?
If I could ask a question it would be why do we still have 9am specials when we dont leave the office till 10am?
Wouldnt it be better to kill 9am and 1pm off and make a next day 5pm product?
The idea is to go out and do them before 9am regardless of what time you go out.
Things 'should' be in place in case of these circumstances, there are a lot of 'shoulds' in Royal Mail.
You shouldn't be doing them at 9 anyway, it's 11... viewtopic.php?p=947219#p947219
Plus answer the PM I sent you!
So in a company that obsessed with efficiency to get the weekly hours down they want you to come in at 8, go out and do your 9am specials, come back, throw your walk in, go back out ( and to the same address as your 9am with ordinary mail) cut off to do your 1pm specials then go back on route and go to the 1pm special house for a 2nd time?
Also our dom says its back to 9am/1pm specials 1st sept.
1st Sept seems to possibly be a goer.
Regarding the 9oclockers, there 'should' of been something in place for it pre pandemic, we've been doing them for years for Christs sake, what are offices f***ing doing?
And answer the PM I sent you after you responded to the 1st PM I sent you.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been. My BFF Clash The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
Is there really any point to the 9am specials? How many are able to be delivered (where there's someone in to sign for them). Whenever I've worked in our SD locker, the handful of 9ams are probably all going to firms, and chances are that none of them will be actually open when delivery is attempted
Is there really any point to the 9am specials? How many are able to be delivered (where there's someone in to sign for them). Whenever I've worked in our SD locker, the handful of 9ams are probably all going to firms, and chances are that none of them will be actually open when delivery is attempted
I've delivered 3 recently, the first customer, who had two of them, said what was I doing calling so early when they don't normally get their post to 11am, the second customer had apparently just left for work when I arrived!
Is there really any point to the 9am specials? How many are able to be delivered (where there's someone in to sign for them). Whenever I've worked in our SD locker, the handful of 9ams are probably all going to firms, and chances are that none of them will be actually open when delivery is attempted
I've delivered 3 recently, the first customer, who had two of them, said what was I doing calling so early when they don't normally get their post to 11am, the second customer had apparently just left for work when I arrived!
I've seen some occasionally with it written on the item don't deliver on a Saturday, then the sender posts it via SD which has to be attempted on the Saturday (Unless an official retention is in place)
Ditch tracked service altogether, or at least fix it. It's an abysmal service. I'd never use tracked, simply no point.
Dream on. Within about the next 5-6 years EVERY parcel will be trackable. It's going to be either that or lose massive amounts of work to rival companies. Most people these days expect to be able to track where their parcel is. Most rival firms, you can also see on a map where the driver is once they're within a certain number of deliveries away from your own.
I think there's a fair chance that all letters and flats will be trackable (or at least a delivery scan) within the same timeframe
Is there really any point to the 9am specials? How many are able to be delivered (where there's someone in to sign for them). Whenever I've worked in our SD locker, the handful of 9ams are probably all going to firms, and chances are that none of them will be actually open when delivery is attempted
It is a weird service, would be interesting to know their stats ect.
But I'm guessing the moolah the business is getting warrants it.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been. My BFF Clash The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
Ditch tracked service altogether, or at least fix it. It's an abysmal service. I'd never use tracked, simply no point.
Dream on. Within about the next 5-6 years EVERY parcel will be trackable. It's going to be either that or lose massive amounts of work to rival companies. Most people these days expect to be able to track where their parcel is. Most rival firms, you can also see on a map where the driver is once they're within a certain number of deliveries away from your own.
Exactly my point bud. We just aren't competing with good companies. Tracked isn't very well tracked, sold as a premium service, but we just don't let customers or recipients know where their parcel is. Emails of parcel coming today is consistently wrong.
We're spending god knows how much on new PDAs and uniform, and yet can't get the basics right.
Basics as in, knowing when a parcel is coming, it actually coming when stated, and coming in good condition!
We could even offer a collect from postie service. Postie gets a notification that a recipient will come to collect from them. I.D being required of course. This kind of thing doesn't make our lives harder, but due to low moral from poor management this kind of thing wouldn't work. -our number one problem. (Other problems in your area i'm sure exist of course)
