Whole offices doing the singleton 50/50 thing.

[yellowbelly]

I found some more information on this.

Apparently, 20% of all walks across the country are being turned into 50/50. These will be rural, firms and HCT duties. I can quote the CWU release on this which says: They will be performing less work under DM26 than they are currently and significantly less than under the ODM model.


So, for the rest of the 80% of the staff on delivery, good luck basically.

What's the point in rurals being 50/50 given the distances they'll have between DPs?

I think the theory is it should take less time - then they can swoop back to the office, don their Superhero mask and cape, find one of the other walks and 'Help out/assist/support'

[TopperGas]

I found some more information on this.

Apparently, 20% of all walks across the country are being turned into 50/50. These will be rural, firms and HCT duties. I can quote the CWU release on this which says: They will be performing less work under DM26 than they are currently and significantly less than under the ODM model.


So, for the rest of the 80% of the staff on delivery, good luck basically.

What's the point in rurals being 50/50 given the distances they'll have between DPs?

I think the theory is it should take less time - then they can swoop back to the office, don their Superhero mask and cape, find one of the other walks and 'Help out/assist/support'

It's all good in theory but how much time is going to be saved only delivering 50% of the 2c mail, an hour?, if it is them once the rural postie has got back to the office, scanned in their town parcels, driven out to the new duty & the driven back afterwards, they are going to have around 15 mins to deliver the tracked items, or they'll just be given 10 or so parcels and told to deliver them on the way back to the office.