The "How was your day" thread.

Post by **greengiant** » 30 Jun 2014, 14:54

Pretty light mail wise, which was quite fortunate, as I have a quadrology of D2Ds this week!

wabbithunta · Post by **wabbithunta** » 30 Jun 2014, 15:16

Dire day... and a dire week to look forward to. Not that I want to do that!
Five household items. Not much you might think, but when they consist of a travel mag about 20 pages thick, another magazine about the same thickness. A small "magazine" for various insurance companies etc, again about twenty pages thick and the usual pizza fliers and a letter from a phone company. Add mail in for over 1500 households and it soon mounts up!
Got shot of one magazine today and doing the same tomorrow for the other one, meaning each bag will be between 7kgs (going upstairs) to a max of 16 kgs on the flat, using a trolley. Then add in the packets, specials, tracked and signed for items and we've got a crap week ahead.
Sixteen bags today

instead of the ten we normally have for a Monday. To cap it all we got caught in a sharp cloud burst, that lasted about fifteen minutes, towards the end of the last two loops. We got back over our time, booking forty-five mins, including the twenty minute meal relief. And today, Monday, was light on mail and packets too!

Not looking forward to the rest of the week.

Jpro747 · Post by **Jpro747** » 02 Jul 2014, 19:09

Absolutely atrocious day today, I've had better days at xmas, had an unbelivable amount of recordeds brought back 10 to the callers office!

Post by **Judgee** » 02 Jul 2014, 20:04

Jpro747 wrote:Absolutely atrocious day today, I've had better days at xmas, had an unbelivable amount of recordeds brought back 10 to the callers office!

Same here. Cut off 1/4 of my walk plus all oversized. Which I have been informed will need to be fed in tomorrows mail as it's summer and it's only light traffic!

Still, if it's as "light" tomorrow as it has been today I expect I'll be cutting off 1/2 a round and all the oversized! You really couldn't make it up!

heapsy · Post by **heapsy** » 02 Jul 2014, 21:34

Long busy day. Ending with a spell in the callers office. Some numpty parked a van across the gate so I've moved it as far as I could and hopefully it will be hidden for a while behind all the cars in the morning.

antcpfc · Post by **antcpfc** » 03 Jul 2014, 14:19

Very busy day.Packets,flats and signed for items all above the model week.Add in 5 d2d and I am knackered.

heapsy · Post by **heapsy** » 03 Jul 2014, 17:51

Busy day. Despite RM telling us that parcel volumes are falling.

krussel · Post by **krussel** » 03 Jul 2014, 17:59

River cruise and Saga mags hit today. Normal packet load as thurs is now the new weds.

Clear blue sky all day but fairly hot walking around. Prefer clouds at work. Never happy

Anyway survived.

Post by **IloveMYredTROLLEY!** » 03 Jul 2014, 19:37

heapsy wrote:Busy day. Despite RM telling us that parcel volumes are falling.

I think you may have misunderstood the communication, they are worried about your h&s, as the parcel stacks on the top shelf of the RM2000 frame are getting concerningly high and unstable.

heapsy · Post by **heapsy** » 03 Jul 2014, 20:09

IloveMYredTROLLEY! wrote:
heapsy wrote:Busy day. Despite RM telling us that parcel volumes are falling.
I think you may have misunderstood the communication, they are worried about your h&s, as the parcel stacks on the top shelf of the RM2000 frame are getting concerningly high and unstable.

I'm more worried about bundles of blankets flying out of open windows situated above the door I'm stood at. Bloke did this the other day.

monkeymutha · Post by **monkeymutha** » 03 Jul 2014, 20:40

Hot as hell with double lapsing. Wasn't happy.

Postie45 · Post by **Postie45** » 03 Jul 2014, 21:37

wabbithunta wrote:Dire day... and a dire week to look forward to. Not that I want to do that!
Five household items. Not much you might think, but when they consist of a travel mag about 20 pages thick, another magazine about the same thickness. A small "magazine" for various insurance companies etc, again about twenty pages thick and the usual pizza fliers and a letter from a phone company. Add mail in for over 1500 households and it soon mounts up!
Got shot of one magazine today and doing the same tomorrow for the other one, meaning each bag will be between 7kgs (going upstairs) to a max of 16 kgs on the flat, using a trolley. Then add in the packets, specials, tracked and signed for items and we've got a crap week ahead.
Sixteen bags today :shock: instead of the ten we normally have for a Monday. To cap it all we got caught in a sharp cloud burst, that lasted about fifteen minutes, towards the end of the last two loops. We got back over our time, booking forty-five mins, including the twenty minute meal relief. And today, Monday, was light on mail and packets too!

Not looking forward to the rest of the week. :evil/mad :thumbdown

sorry if youre going to have a "crap week" but it sounds like you dont do yourself many favours - Make life easier on yourself and cut off at your scheduled finish time if theres too much work (which from what youre saying seems to be the case) and take full meal break before you go out. Thats what I do, rarely do I finish and feel exhausted, unless ive been up late the night before !

wabbithunta · Post by **wabbithunta** » 04 Jul 2014, 05:26

Postie45 wrote:
wabbithunta wrote:Dire day... and a dire week to look forward to. Not that I want to do that!
Five household items. Not much you might think, but when they consist of a travel mag about 20 pages thick, another magazine about the same thickness. A small "magazine" for various insurance companies etc, again about twenty pages thick and the usual pizza fliers and a letter from a phone company. Add mail in for over 1500 households and it soon mounts up!
Got shot of one magazine today and doing the same tomorrow for the other one, meaning each bag will be between 7kgs (going upstairs) to a max of 16 kgs on the flat, using a trolley. Then add in the packets, specials, tracked and signed for items and we've got a crap week ahead.
Sixteen bags today instead of the ten we normally have for a Monday. To cap it all we got caught in a sharp cloud burst, that lasted about fifteen minutes, towards the end of the last two loops. We got back over our time, booking forty-five mins, including the twenty minute meal relief. And today, Monday, was light on mail and packets too!

Not looking forward to the rest of the week.
sorry if youre going to have a "crap week" but it sounds like you dont do yourself many favours - Make life easier on yourself and cut off at your scheduled finish time if theres too much work (which from what youre saying seems to be the case) and take full meal break before you go out. Thats what I do, rarely do I finish and feel exhausted, unless ive been up late the night before !

We already do that.

dave72 · Post by **dave72** » 04 Jul 2014, 20:37

Steady Friday and now my long weekend off

Post by **greengiant** » 08 Jul 2014, 13:49

A bit wet to start with. Fortunatly, very light mail, and since we are all starting a half hour earlier in my DO, I got home and finished for 1pm!

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