No 16.30 cap?

[Mr Rush]

Christ I'm bundling up/loading the HCT by then, out the door by 9, at first DP by 9:15 at the absolute latest after a brisk 0.8mile walk.

I deduce you must be near one of the glorious Hubs.

[TopperGas]

40hr contracts that hold a duty finish at 13:55 on saturday for us. Legacy are 13:25.

If you're finishing at 4pm are you starting later?

No. We start at 8.35 pm every day now, and the proposal is to still start at this time. We're told the longer delivery spans and later finishes are to "pay" for an extra Saturday off every 5 weeks.

Christ I'm bundling up/loading the HCT by then, out the door by 9, at first DP by 9:15 at the absolute latest after a brisk 0.8mile walk.
I start at 6:10, do an hour sorting then throw my mec in, sort my packets then back on sorting when the next wagon rolls up. Then its just keeping on top of packets, pigeonholes and sorting until its all done, scan last few packets onto manifest, check redirections, grab specials and start bundling.

That's was the good old days when the last wagon arrived by 8, now with it arriving at 9 or later we're totally shafted, particularly during the heatwave when the later you start your duty the worse it becomes.

[abuch1980]

Is this true that there is an agreement today that this end of duty cap does not exist therefore a duty could theoretically now be 9-5 or 10-6 even for old contract staff?

Thousands would leave if it was 5-6pm finish

They'll join the thousands that already left. The company doesn't care - actually that's not true, this has been the desired outcome for a long time.

Yep. Some senior posties still think they are irreplaceable and the business needs them because “they know the sorting best”. While that may be true on an individual office basis, the company nationally couldn’t give a s**t if you’ve done 40 years or 40 minutes. Once your out the door you’ll be replaced by the next poor soul on the conveyor belt and never be thought of again. We’re all just numbers on a spreadsheet to be exploited to boost the financial portfolio of Mr Kretinsky.

That is a totally outrageous comment, and exactly correct We are only a pay number, pretty soon the pay numbers will be so long they won't fit on the payslip.

[Perseus]

lol, the last time we started at anything resembling 6:10am was 20 years ago. Hold onto it whilst you can, but spare a thought for the rest!

[Rve83ndxd]

Yep. Some senior posties still think they are irreplaceable and the business needs them because “they know the sorting best”.

Sorting is automatic in our DO; a monkey could do it. No doubt it'll come to your DO soon.

[oypostie]

Sorting is automatic in our DO

Sorry, what do you mean by automatic ?

[SpacePhoenix]

Sorting is automatic in our DO

Sorry, what do you mean by automatic ?

If I had to guess, it would be EVERYONE sorting on the IPS and packets until ALL the sorting is done.

[TopperGas]

Sorting is automatic in our DO

Sorry, what do you mean by automatic ?

If I had to guess, it would be EVERYONE sorting on the IPS and packets until ALL the sorting is done.

It would take a clever monkey to do it?

I wonder how many years he takes to learn to do the sorting i.e. put the packets in the correct duty bags and letters in their correct slots, it's got to be at least a couple of years in even an office with just 50 duties?

[ted_e_bear]

Sorting is automatic in our DO

Sorry, what do you mean by automatic ?

Mandatory maybe ?
Just a guess

[Rve83ndxd]

Sorting is automatic in our DO

Sorry, what do you mean by automatic ?

Mandatory maybe ?
Just a guess

Scan the parcel, PDA tells you where it goes, and you put it in the right York. No thinking.

[Mr Rush]

Scan the parcel, PDA tells you where it goes, and you put it in the right York. No thinking.

That would actually be a substantial improvement on the current standard of sorting which is atrocious either because a lot of people's knowledge is twenty years out of date and/or they just don't care where they fling stuff. It really doesn't help that duties are a geographic mess since the last revision.

Although we stopped scanning Tracked on IPS back before the pandemic when the volume became too great, so it seems like once again everything that goes away comes back eventually.

[SMS1969]

Sorting is automatic in our DO

Sorry, what do you mean by automatic ?

Mandatory maybe ?
Just a guess

Scan the parcel, PDA tells you where it goes, and you put it in the right York. No thinking.

They’d still end up in the wrong York at our place, we’ve got one who has been a postie for nearly foury years, couldn’t care less if he mis sorts and openly admits it, both when he’s on letters and/ or parcels.

[60091]

Is this true that there is an agreement today that this end of duty cap does not exist therefore a duty could theoretically now be 9-5 or 10-6 even for old contract staff?

We already work past 4.30pm on our longest days. Have done since the network changes 2 years ago.

Are you Scotland as ours 14.50 in Somerset!

[qwerty2]

Is this true that there is an agreement today that this end of duty cap does not exist therefore a duty could theoretically now be 9-5 or 10-6 even for old contract staff?

We already work past 4.30pm on our longest days. Have done since the network changes 2 years ago.

Are you Scotland as ours 14.50 in Somerset!

Ridiculous - further north should finish earlier - darker earlier in winter - RM clueless

[Ozzvaldo]

Is this true that there is an agreement today that this end of duty cap does not exist therefore a duty could theoretically now be 9-5 or 10-6 even for old contract staff?

We already work past 4.30pm on our longest days. Have done since the network changes 2 years ago.

Are you Scotland as ours 14.50 in Somerset!

No, England.