What has been the best duty you have ever worked ?

[arnold cheshire]

the one the other week who said posties go home at 12 every day in 2012

[music4essex]

When I was in the other office i started at on the south coast , this walk I did would come over the hills and I would see the sunrise and below was the harbour.

Tying up the bags with string so you could get the bags into the lift for the last train

Driving the security van along the seaside and usually the guys with me, eying the girls up, and stopping for an ice cream

A rural delivery walking along the coast/channell on a hot sunny day and having me sandwiches at the top of this hill and looking out to sea, on a cold windy day was another thing, all of this in the 90.s

Now on a very flat cycle delivery in a suburb and managment just bullies how things change

Essex mum

[stokes11eg]

My last one!

[dre33dd]

after a resign i risked picking one of the "alleged" harder duties....well,best kept secret in ........!
tis a doddle.low mail volumes and super delivery.first back and home every day and the bosses can say nothing! as the old delivery person was always and i do mean always last back! lets hope the tips are as sweet this xmas..
RESULT indeed

[mondeo1]

i like sundays

[CJ12]

TV detector van driving (usually lasted 4-6 weeks) there were only 16 vans in the country and they used to move around the large offices, then you went back on normal postman driving duties. Called (flag flying) when you just drove round a targeted area to be seen, sat parked up on roundabouts, shopping areas etc, even managed to get tv on the monitor in the back on one van! Sometimes had to drive some to##er around to a list of addresses where he would knock doors and get lots of abuse, I remember people giving me lots of hand signals too though, unfortunately/fortunately my ex-girlfriend at the time was at home watching tv when one of the other vans driven by one of my mates paid a visit resulting in a £100 fine for her!

[mandelsons_toenail]

Rural delivery 2005-2009

815 first letter, driving home at 1130

Town delivery, little number I had when on a 27 hour contract, 2003-2004

Delivering by 630 am, loft back to office 830 am and home


The glory days

[maverick]

Every walk I ever did pre-2003, it was an all-round fantastic job to have then.

No wonder we were heading for bankruptcy . Many can't see how this would have meant redundancies had we gone on like this. At the end of the day an honest days work for an honest days pay. Tea and toast at mummy's then.

[arnold cheshire]

the duty where theirs too much mail and packets and you cut off only doing about half of it

[Sausage70]

Early 90's doing a 2nd delivery and being back in the house for 10.20...seems like such a long time ago lol.

[branchofficial11]

Coding in the mail centre. Sat on a comfy seat in an air-conditioned office. Not a lot to do in the afternoon, so quizzes took priority. The panic on the managers face when they had to code the bank out, offering you an hours overtime for ten minutes. Then Mdec's arrived and that was it.

[lepetorious]

working at hounslow as a messenger on 125 cc bantams the job was all i had dreamed of riding round delivering telegrams and being paid for the privaledge mind you that was in 1967 the uniform was more military and smart these days we all like teenage americans with our baseball caps and trainers and red fleeces what on earth were they thinking about talk about a clash of colours red and grey at least we used to have a really smart uniform that comanded respect

[arnold cheshire]

the one last week where it was that busy i only did half

[maisymoo04]

When I started about 10 years ago, I got put on a town centre duty after a few months, was a nightmare to box in but easy to deliver. On a Saturday you delivered one street, so usually only had one bundle, remember once starting at 7am, finished by 7.10 and back in bed by 7,30!
Good old days indeed!

[soupdragon68]

Must be 26 years ago, working on the Station shuttle.... Not much shuttling, loads of tea. A few hours worth of work.....