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No Uniform. No elastic bands. No 739's

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
Deadly
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Re: No Uniform. No elastic bands. No 739's

Post by Deadly »

The reason they aren't giving out new uniforms is that they want thousands of job losses so see it as a waste of money.
Shirtbuttons
EX ROYAL MAIL
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Re: No Uniform. No elastic bands. No 739's

Post by Shirtbuttons »

Does anyone care anymore? It’s finished and many of us loyal hard workers are broken. Physically and mentally I can never trust them again.
SpacePhoenix
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Re: No Uniform. No elastic bands. No 739's

Post by SpacePhoenix »

aiden01 wrote:
24 Oct 2022, 23:29
SpacePhoenix wrote:
24 Oct 2022, 19:29
I wonder how long it'll be before we start running out of trays, yorks and sleeves
Who cares ffs.
Has an affect for the next office down the line be it a MC or DO as stuff would have to go out on pallets? Do you want all the mail incoming to your MC to be coming in on pallets?
HTPostman
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Re: No Uniform. No elastic bands. No 739's

Post by HTPostman »

Unfortunately I don’t think the majority care how mail arrives anymore. Dump it all at the gates and have a manager ask us to carry it in, makes no difference to me, I’ll do as told until it’s clocking off time.

My manager is paid 3 times as much as me and is paid to deal with problems, be it not enough vans, not enough bags, someone taking van keys home with them when it’s their day off.

I used to care, I’d cancel stamps, do that bit extra for myself/the customer, I’d clear the s**t that gets left in vans, I’d inform a manager if someone had accidentally left a van window down in the yard after returning at the end of their shift (happens surprisingly often!).

No more.

I actually had a manager say to me ‘can’t you just use it for today? We don’t have any spare vans, and what do you possibly expect me to do about it’ when I logged off a van yesterday morning due to a brake light being out. As always, I sat in the canteen prepping D2Ds until she came up with a solution.
The day is gonna come when we’re all gonna have to testify.

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yellowbelly
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Re: No Uniform. No elastic bands. No 739's

Post by yellowbelly »

SpacePhoenix wrote:
25 Oct 2022, 10:56
aiden01 wrote:
24 Oct 2022, 23:29
SpacePhoenix wrote:
24 Oct 2022, 19:29
I wonder how long it'll be before we start running out of trays, yorks and sleeves
Who cares ffs.
Has an affect for the next office down the line be it a MC or DO as stuff would have to go out on pallets? Do you want all the mail incoming to your MC to be coming in on pallets?
If mail is falling as you've frequently told us, I don't think there's any danger of running out of trays is there?
Wolf91
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Re: No Uniform. No elastic bands. No 739's

Post by Wolf91 »

eastie wrote:
24 Oct 2022, 09:04
No trolleys.
Not enough vans
No soap or hand
towels
No bags
No manager
How can you run a business like this??
This was our depot on Monday. Literally everything you mentioned, all at once.
Good stuff RM.

You know what we need in this business?
MORE CUTS.