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Wish I could report myself to OFCOM

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TopperGas
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Re: Wish I could report myself to OFCOM

Post by TopperGas »

Runnerdan wrote:
26 Oct 2025, 13:13
srilfc2013 wrote:
24 Oct 2025, 17:20
We have been told to prioritise tracked 24 and 1st class. If we have to much to deliver we have to drop tracked 48 🤷‍♂️
I got told the opposite, when I asked what I should do if I don’t have time, I got told to leave the 1st class and just get tracked done. Basically got told the 1st class needs to leave the building so put it in a bundle and just bring it back.
Which is OK until you've got a double amount to deliver the next day? If you bring a RM "chip" back what's the betting the manager will throw you under the bus rather than admit what he told you to do?
scotchy1962
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Re: Wish I could report myself to OFCOM

Post by scotchy1962 »

TopperGas wrote:
26 Oct 2025, 14:18
Runnerdan wrote:
26 Oct 2025, 13:13
srilfc2013 wrote:
24 Oct 2025, 17:20
We have been told to prioritise tracked 24 and 1st class. If we have to much to deliver we have to drop tracked 48 🤷‍♂️
I got told the opposite, when I asked what I should do if I don’t have time, I got told to leave the 1st class and just get tracked done. Basically got told the 1st class needs to leave the building so put it in a bundle and just bring it back.
Which is OK until you've got a double amount to deliver the next day? If you bring a RM "chip" back what's the betting the manager will throw you under the bus rather than admit what he told you to do?
This i don't really understand, If by "chip" you mean a RM test letter surely that falls on your manager, how can he/she throw you under anything when you don't have time to complete and if it carries over you have even less chance of completing.
This is the sort of scaremongering that is poisonous and some people even believe it.
Sometimes i despair!!
ted_e_bear
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Re: Wish I could report myself to OFCOM

Post by ted_e_bear »

scotchy1962 wrote:
26 Oct 2025, 14:53
TopperGas wrote:
26 Oct 2025, 14:18
Runnerdan wrote:
26 Oct 2025, 13:13
srilfc2013 wrote:
24 Oct 2025, 17:20
We have been told to prioritise tracked 24 and 1st class. If we have to much to deliver we have to drop tracked 48 🤷‍♂️
I got told the opposite, when I asked what I should do if I don’t have time, I got told to leave the 1st class and just get tracked done. Basically got told the 1st class needs to leave the building so put it in a bundle and just bring it back.
Which is OK until you've got a double amount to deliver the next day? If you bring a RM "chip" back what's the betting the manager will throw you under the bus rather than admit what he told you to do?
This i don't really understand, If by "chip" you mean a RM test letter surely that falls on your manager, how can he/she throw you under anything when you don't have time to complete and if it carries over you have even less chance of completing.
This is the sort of scaremongering that is poisonous and some people even believe it.
Sometimes i despair!!
I think they mean the manager will deny instructing you to take the mail "for a ride" and instead allow you to be accused of wilful delay etc for bringing it back without prior authorisation to do so.
scotchy1962
EX ROYAL MAIL
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Joined: 25 Mar 2020, 16:55
Gender: Male

Re: Wish I could report myself to OFCOM

Post by scotchy1962 »

ted_e_bear wrote:
26 Oct 2025, 15:18
scotchy1962 wrote:
26 Oct 2025, 14:53
TopperGas wrote:
26 Oct 2025, 14:18
Runnerdan wrote:
26 Oct 2025, 13:13
srilfc2013 wrote:
24 Oct 2025, 17:20
We have been told to prioritise tracked 24 and 1st class. If we have to much to deliver we have to drop tracked 48 🤷‍♂️
I got told the opposite, when I asked what I should do if I don’t have time, I got told to leave the 1st class and just get tracked done. Basically got told the 1st class needs to leave the building so put it in a bundle and just bring it back.
Which is OK until you've got a double amount to deliver the next day? If you bring a RM "chip" back what's the betting the manager will throw you under the bus rather than admit what he told you to do?
This i don't really understand, If by "chip" you mean a RM test letter surely that falls on your manager, how can he/she throw you under anything when you don't have time to complete and if it carries over you have even less chance of completing.
This is the sort of scaremongering that is poisonous and some people even believe it.
Sometimes i despair!!
I think they mean the manager will deny instructing you to take the mail "for a ride" and instead allow you to be accused of wilful delay etc for bringing it back without prior authorisation to do so.
He said she said is not wilful delay, who ever gets anything other than word of mouth and defending that should be easy, but i know what you are saying as all managers have a tendancy to be liberal with the truth.
John Gaita
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Gender: Male
Location: South Wales

Re: Wish I could report myself to OFCOM

Post by John Gaita »

TopperGas wrote:
24 Oct 2025, 18:41
Why worry about it as you're getting the same pay whatever you deliver?
This made the job an unmanageable nightmare. And we're under constant threat of willful delay. Which they can do it if they want because everything fails – 1c, 2c and tracked. They even threat willful delay with the D2D's.
John Gaita
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Re: Wish I could report myself to OFCOM

Post by John Gaita »

postslippete wrote:
24 Oct 2025, 19:41
Who's "we"? - do you mean you personally, you and your van-share colleague, or the whole office?
"We" is me and my van-share colleague. Half the office completes everything, finishes early and hangs around the office doing nothing until clock out time. We get 2 or 3 times the parcels they have.
John Gaita
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Gender: Male
Location: South Wales

Re: Wish I could report myself to OFCOM

Post by John Gaita »

darrenpp wrote:
24 Oct 2025, 19:54
raise a concern on your workplace app
I had to, for something else even worse. And wait what, 9 months? A year?