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USO ODM extra trial

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ted_e_bear
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Re: USO ODM extra trial

Post by ted_e_bear »

Acca Dacca wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:38
TopperGas wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 17:40
ted_e_bear wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 15:20
TopperGas wrote:
24 Sep 2025, 19:21

I'm still waiting to hear how we'll all keep our own duties even though all our frames have now been marked blue or pink meaning that they'll only go out on alternative days, which suggests just 1 postie will now cover 2 duties when the changes are eventually introduced.
I think iirc the idea was to have monster duties planned that you were expected to do everything on one half plus parcels+1c on the other then the following day clear everything on the other half and parcels+1c on the half that got delivered the previous day.

That way you did stay on the same duty I suppose the theory would work for both van share and singleton although I reckon some of our resident heroes would still try to clear everything.
Basically you'll be expected to flip flop between two duties, but that still means somebody will be losing being the duty holder on one of those duties.
Thats not what the proposal is

Its making the duties bigger but a van share would still work together doing the same two bigger duties - just instead of one duty being only 1st class and tracked it'd be half of one being rotated


The people who's walks they carve up to add onto everyone else, like the last revision, would lose their duty though
Yes that's how I interpreted it
A2B
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Re: USO ODM extra trial

Post by A2B »

ted_e_bear wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:53
A2B wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:43
Acca Dacca wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:38

Thats not what the proposal is

Its making the duties bigger but a van share would still work together doing the same two bigger duties - just instead of one duty being only 1st class and tracked it'd be half of one being rotated

The people who's walks they carve up to add onto everyone else, like the last revision, would lose their duty though
And if you have no van shares?
You have a big oversized singleton and the same script applies. :thumbup
I haven't seen the double decker HCT variant yet :shock:
toonshola
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Re: USO ODM extra trial

Post by toonshola »

A2B wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:43
Acca Dacca wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:38

Thats not what the proposal is

Its making the duties bigger but a van share would still work together doing the same two bigger duties - just instead of one duty being only 1st class and tracked it'd be half of one being rotated

The people who's walks they carve up to add onto everyone else, like the last revision, would lose their duty though
And if you have no van shares?
Then thank whatever higher power you might believe in that you don’t have to suffer van share. Shittest way of working ever thought up by the business.
A2B
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Re: USO ODM extra trial

Post by A2B »

toonshola wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 19:17
A2B wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:43
Acca Dacca wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:38

Thats not what the proposal is

Its making the duties bigger but a van share would still work together doing the same two bigger duties - just instead of one duty being only 1st class and tracked it'd be half of one being rotated

The people who's walks they carve up to add onto everyone else, like the last revision, would lose their duty though
And if you have no van shares?
Then thank whatever higher power you might believe in that you don’t have to suffer van share. Shittest way of working ever thought up by the business.
We had it years ago and it didn't work so it went back to single duties
funkflex55
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Re: USO ODM extra trial

Post by funkflex55 »

A2B wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 19:04
ted_e_bear wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:53
A2B wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:43
Acca Dacca wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:38

Thats not what the proposal is

Its making the duties bigger but a van share would still work together doing the same two bigger duties - just instead of one duty being only 1st class and tracked it'd be half of one being rotated

The people who's walks they carve up to add onto everyone else, like the last revision, would lose their duty though
And if you have no van shares?
You have a big oversized singleton and the same script applies. :thumbup
I haven't seen the double decker HCT variant yet :shock:
Double Decker would be unsafe. Instead you have 2 HCTs, push one and pull one behind you using a harness. Double the capacity and stops the need for refills.
A2B
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Re: USO ODM extra trial

Post by A2B »

funkflex55 wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 19:34
A2B wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 19:04
ted_e_bear wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:53
A2B wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:43
Acca Dacca wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 18:38

Thats not what the proposal is

Its making the duties bigger but a van share would still work together doing the same two bigger duties - just instead of one duty being only 1st class and tracked it'd be half of one being rotated

The people who's walks they carve up to add onto everyone else, like the last revision, would lose their duty though
And if you have no van shares?
You have a big oversized singleton and the same script applies. :thumbup
I haven't seen the double decker HCT variant yet :shock:
Double Decker would be unsafe. Instead you have 2 HCTs, push one and pull one behind you using a harness. Double the capacity and stops the need for refills.
👏 Look forward to it, hot food and drink in the front cold in the back :nana