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Revision coming before Christmas

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Rage24
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Revision coming before Christmas

Post by Rage24 »

What should I expect? How are they looking to do these new revisions? Has anyone had there's yet? Surely they can't make the duties even bigger.
SpacePhoenix
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

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Rage24 wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 11:54
Surely they can't make the duties even bigger.
This is RM you're talking about, they're bound to make them bigger.

Hope the walk data on Route Planner gets updated and the sequencing sort plans for the machines get updated ready for Xmas pressure or your going to get shitloads of letters being sorted to the wrong walks
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

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SpacePhoenix wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 12:08
Hope the walk data on Route Planner gets updated and the sequencing sort plans for the machines get updated ready for Xmas pressure or your going to get shitloads of letters being sorted to the wrong walks
We already do!
SpacePhoenix
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

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Jefferson Starfish wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 12:12
SpacePhoenix wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 12:08
Hope the walk data on Route Planner gets updated and the sequencing sort plans for the machines get updated ready for Xmas pressure or your going to get shitloads of letters being sorted to the wrong walks
We already do!
How long ago did your DO last update the walk data on Route Planner?
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

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SpacePhoenix wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 13:11
Jefferson Starfish wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 12:12
SpacePhoenix wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 12:08
Hope the walk data on Route Planner gets updated and the sequencing sort plans for the machines get updated ready for Xmas pressure or your going to get shitloads of letters being sorted to the wrong walks
We already do!
How long ago did your DO last update the walk data on Route Planner?
Haven't got a clue to be honest, but there's always loads more missorts at Christmas than the rest of the year.
SpacePhoenix
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

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Jefferson Starfish wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 14:39
SpacePhoenix wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 13:11
Jefferson Starfish wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 12:12
SpacePhoenix wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 12:08
Hope the walk data on Route Planner gets updated and the sequencing sort plans for the machines get updated ready for Xmas pressure or your going to get shitloads of letters being sorted to the wrong walks
We already do!
How long ago did your DO last update the walk data on Route Planner?
Haven't got a clue to be honest, but there's always loads more missorts at Christmas than the rest of the year.
That'll be down virtually everyone who's sorting manual letters being a xmas casual.
pieoftheday
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

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Bounced_Czech wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 15:31
Rage24 wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 11:54
What should I expect?
You should expect to work longer hours, later in the day than ever before, without financial compensation. :arrrghhh
Why would anyone work longer hours for no extra coin?
ted_e_bear
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

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SpacePhoenix wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 15:44
Jefferson Starfish wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 14:39
SpacePhoenix wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 13:11
Jefferson Starfish wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 12:12
SpacePhoenix wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 12:08
Hope the walk data on Route Planner gets updated and the sequencing sort plans for the machines get updated ready for Xmas pressure or your going to get shitloads of letters being sorted to the wrong walks
We already do!
How long ago did your DO last update the walk data on Route Planner?
Haven't got a clue to be honest, but there's always loads more missorts at Christmas than the rest of the year.
That'll be down virtually everyone who's sorting manual letters being a xmas casual.
That's not really an acceptable excuse perhaps they could do something novel like employing people who can read and match postcodes to the board that tells them where to sort them to.
Mr Rush
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

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ted_e_bear wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 16:02
SpacePhoenix wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 15:44

That'll be down virtually everyone who's sorting manual letters being a xmas casual.
That's not really an acceptable excuse perhaps they could do something novel like employing people who can read and match postcodes to the board that tells them where to sort them to.
By eliminating barriers to entry (like basic reading skills) they can collapse the pay floor. Something I read about the eerily familiar state of USPS in America:
[The union rep] said the future of the USPS is to perpetually hire unqualified workers at criminal pay until we either implement the old hiring standards or get shutdown. It was very disheartening, especially when I spoke to our local president and he said that there is 0% chance we ever go back to strict hiring requirements because corporate loves having an infinite hiring pool of disposable, replaceable employees they can grind up and spit out.
The machine stops.
pieoftheday
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

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Bounced_Czech wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 16:15
pieoftheday wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 15:53
Bounced_Czech wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 15:31
Rage24 wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 11:54
What should I expect?
You should expect to work longer hours, later in the day than ever before, without financial compensation. :arrrghhh
Why would anyone work longer hours for no extra coin?
Because we all have to work longer hours during the pressure?
But weve worked less over summer for the same pay so nobody is losing out?
LouBarlow
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

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pieoftheday wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 16:50
Bounced_Czech wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 16:15
pieoftheday wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 15:53
Bounced_Czech wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 15:31
Rage24 wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 11:54
What should I expect?
You should expect to work longer hours, later in the day than ever before, without financial compensation. :arrrghhh
Why would anyone work longer hours for no extra coin?
Because we all have to work longer hours during the pressure?
But weve worked less over summer for the same pay so nobody is losing out?
Exactly. You will be working the same hours irregardless of whether a revision is carried out or not.
BenacreNick
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

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Clearly there will be no revision before Christmas pressure. That would be insane, even RM are not that stupid.

More likely January. :cuppa
SpacePhoenix
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

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BenacreNick wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 18:51
Clearly there will be no revision before Christmas pressure. That would be insane, even RM are not that stupid.

More likely January. :cuppa
If it's going to be before Xmas it'll be no later than early to mid November
LouBarlow
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

Post by LouBarlow »

Yeah we have had a November revision a few years back. It was a mess. It involved putting in duties to cover all oversized parcels from town duties and allocated cut-off duties for rural deliveries.
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Re: Revision coming before Christmas

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SpacePhoenix wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 19:44
BenacreNick wrote:
30 Aug 2024, 18:51
Clearly there will be no revision before Christmas pressure. That would be insane, even RM are not that stupid.

More likely January. :cuppa
If it's going to be before Xmas it'll be no later than early to mid November
Ours just been implemented