The "How was your day" thread.

[SpacePhoenix]

What's going on at Glasgow MC? The latter half of this week all our sequenced trays are coming in wrongly labelled. Not that such formalities as prepping a walk really matter anymore, it's just very unusual.

Any changes to the walks coming up? Maybe the walks on the batches have been updated too early. Is it two batches with the same number of walks? if so it could be the person who prints the labels off putting the wrong walk into the pile for a machine. Could be that they've changed which batches get done by what machine but not updated the list by the label printer.

[yellowbelly]

What's going on at Glasgow MC? The latter half of this week all our sequenced trays are coming in wrongly labelled. Not that such formalities as prepping a walk really matter anymore, it's just very unusual.

Any changes to the walks coming up? Maybe the walks on the batches have been updated too early. Is it two batches with the same number of walks? if so it could be the person who prints the labels off putting the wrong walk into the pile for a machine. Could be that they've changed which batches get done by what machine but not updated the list by the label printer.

Not just Glasgow.....

[SkiSunday]

Not that such formalities as prepping a walk really seem to matter anymore to the majority of RM employees

Well said Mr Rush. Amen

[Mr Rush]

What's going on at Glasgow MC? The latter half of this week all our sequenced trays are coming in wrongly labelled. Not that such formalities as prepping a walk really matter anymore, it's just very unusual.

Any changes to the walks coming up? Maybe the walks on the batches have been updated too early. Is it two batches with the same number of walks? if so it could be the person who prints the labels off putting the wrong walk into the pile for a machine. Could be that they've changed which batches get done by what machine but not updated the list by the label printer.

No, no changes (although there really should be because everything is a geographic mess). The trays I saw were off by one or two duty numbers - eg, 15's sequenced would be labelled as 16 or 17. I assume it's an error on the human side of the operation.

At least one tray seemed to be missing completely for most of the morning. Either it was at a frame on the other side of the office or it came in on a second run. Ultimately, if the sequenced never showed up it would be inconsequential for the, ahem, indeterminate number of walks not going out.

[SMS1969]

My sequenced never showed up at all yesterday, so no doubt double tomorrow,if they happen to find it.

[SpacePhoenix]

What's going on at Glasgow MC? The latter half of this week all our sequenced trays are coming in wrongly labelled. Not that such formalities as prepping a walk really matter anymore, it's just very unusual.

Any changes to the walks coming up? Maybe the walks on the batches have been updated too early. Is it two batches with the same number of walks? if so it could be the person who prints the labels off putting the wrong walk into the pile for a machine. Could be that they've changed which batches get done by what machine but not updated the list by the label printer.

No, no changes (although there really should be because everything is a geographic mess). The trays I saw were off by one or two duty numbers - eg, 15's sequenced would be labelled as 16 or 17. I assume it's an error on the human side of the operation.

At least one tray seemed to be missing completely for most of the morning. Either it was at a frame on the other side of the office or it came in on a second run. Ultimately, if the sequenced never showed up it would be inconsequential for the, ahem, indeterminate number of walks not going out.

We get given a set of labels, two per walk for the first wave. We box up blue card to blue card (separate walks on the machine). Maybe their label printer is down and they've used an old set of labels. If I think I've got the labels wrong then I remove all the labels and send the boxes without labels. Sometimes if a walk has got more than 2 trays the extra trays won't get a label, that may have thrown things off if has been around the time that a machine has a change of operator.

A group of walk frames in a DO won't necessarily be all on the same batch. For each batch there is a maximum limit for the total number of delivery points. Once that limit is hit, walks have to be taken off that batch and there are a few options:

* Some walks for the DO are moved onto a brand new batch.
* Some walks are moved to a batch for the DO which hasn't hit the limit.
* Some walks are moved onto a "merged" batch.

MCs don't have anything to do with writing the sort plans or creating batches, it gets done centrally somewhere. The office that is responsible base the sort plans and batches on the data in Route Planner, if that data is wrong then the batches will be wrong.

[darkknight34]

Anyone else absolutely knackered all the time, i just got back from 9 days in Cyprus and came back to double mail on my frame, one day back completely ruined any relaxation i had over the 9 days.
I'm still of the ilk where you complete everyday no matter how much overtime you need to book to get it out to your customers but its getting too much, i've been a postie for nearly 30 years and i've never known it this bad. I'm on a rural with 500 calls which i think is a lot for a rural mainly due to new estates being built on my patch.
It's almost at the point where i want to resign rather than let my customers down.
I know theres nothing to be done and its my own choice to go over but i just wanted to vent a bit.
Moan over.

[Barnacle]

Anyone else absolutely knackered all the time, i just got back from 9 days in Cyprus and came back to double mail on my frame, one day back completely ruined any relaxation i had over the 9 days.
I'm still of the ilk where you complete everyday no matter how much overtime you need to book to get it out to your customers but its getting too much, i've been a postie for nearly 30 years and i've never known it this bad. I'm on a rural with 500 calls which i think is a lot for a rural mainly due to new estates being built on my patch.
It's almost at the point where i want to resign rather than let my customers down.
I know theres nothing to be done and its my own choice to go over but i just wanted to vent a bit.
Moan over.

Grinds you down

[qwerty2]

Anyone else absolutely knackered all the time, i just got back from 9 days in Cyprus and came back to double mail on my frame, one day back completely ruined any relaxation i had over the 9 days.
I'm still of the ilk where you complete everyday no matter how much overtime you need to book to get it out to your customers but its getting too much, i've been a postie for nearly 30 years and i've never known it this bad. I'm on a rural with 500 calls which i think is a lot for a rural mainly due to new estates being built on my patch.
It's almost at the point where i want to resign rather than let my customers down.
I know theres nothing to be done and its my own choice to go over but i just wanted to vent a bit.
Moan over.

Don’t work OT - try it - you’ll feel a lot better

[Rve83ndxd]

Don’t work OT - try it - you’ll feel a lot better

No. I'm still f****d.

[Postie45]

Anyone else absolutely knackered all the time, i just got back from 9 days in Cyprus and came back to double mail on my frame, one day back completely ruined any relaxation i had over the 9 days.
I'm still of the ilk where you complete everyday no matter how much overtime you need to book to get it out to your customers but its getting too much, i've been a postie for nearly 30 years and i've never known it this bad. I'm on a rural with 500 calls which i think is a lot for a rural mainly due to new estates being built on my patch.
It's almost at the point where i want to resign rather than let my customers down.
I know theres nothing to be done and its my own choice to go over but i just wanted to vent a bit.
Moan over.

stop taking the responsibility on your shoulders, due to complete mismanagement the job has been made unacheivable. Do your best, work your hours and thats it. From your post its clearly taking a toll on your mental health and you have a great work ethic but dont accept these failings as your fault.

[Barnacle]

Anyone else absolutely knackered all the time, i just got back from 9 days in Cyprus and came back to double mail on my frame, one day back completely ruined any relaxation i had over the 9 days.
I'm still of the ilk where you complete everyday no matter how much overtime you need to book to get it out to your customers but its getting too much, i've been a postie for nearly 30 years and i've never known it this bad. I'm on a rural with 500 calls which i think is a lot for a rural mainly due to new estates being built on my patch.
It's almost at the point where i want to resign rather than let my customers down.
I know theres nothing to be done and its my own choice to go over but i just wanted to vent a bit.
Moan over.

stop taking the responsibility on your shoulders, due to complete mismanagement the job has been made unacheivable. Do your best, work your hours and thats it. From your post its clearly taking a toll on your mental health and you have a great work ethic but dont accept these failings as your fault.

[Woody84]

This week has been absolutely crazy.

Tracked double what we usually have!

[SpacePhoenix]

This week has been absolutely crazy.

Tracked double what we usually have!

We had a massive surge of work in all sections Thursday night. No idea if it was just a load of work held up somewhere upstream of us.

[Mr Rush]

This week has been absolutely crazy.

Tracked double what we usually have!

The end of the month is when volumes usually uptick as monthly pay gets spent. Still, if this is how we're doing in early October I forsee calamity for the remaining 11 weeks of the year. Remember to stay calm and apply your own oxygen mask before helping others.