LTB No. 232/15 Tools and Measurement Update

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Letter to Branches


No. 232/15
Ref: 230.03
Date: 9th April 2015



To: Branches with POSTAL Members

Dear Colleagues,

Tools and Measurement Update

Following recent ADR briefings attended by members of the Outdoor Committee we are circulating for information purposes nationally agreed delivery tools updates.
Auto-IWT-Forecasting Tool
This will be switched on and available on the intranet from May 5th 2015. The DTFT (Delivery Traffic Forecasting Tool) will continue to be available for forecasting within resource meetings until this date. Even though the new system will be switched on from the 5th May units should not be using it until they have had their webinar training. In conjunction with this it has also been agreed that every office will validate their IWT base data and be signed off by the DOM and CWU Rep.  A national form is being produced to undertake this task which should be drafted for CWU agreement by the end of this week. Once agreed it will be circulated to Branches via LTB. The Auto IWT Forecasting Guidelines are attached which can be used during the webinar training.

ACST (Attendance Call Sampling Tool) + MIRA (Manual Interventions)
Work has been taking place to merge these 2 tools into one and is nearing completion. Branches will be notified in due course of any agreed changes.

Model Week Guidance v2
The 3 monthly model week updates for delivery units will be produced on the first week in April, first week in July, first week in October, and first week in January each year for CWU Reps and DOMs to review their duty structures within weekly resource meetings. This does not mean units will have to agree improved performance levels it will mean reviewing your agreed performance against the updated traffic figures. Hopefully these dates will be easy to remember.

SPDOs
On the issue of SPDOs being included in Parent Office IWTs, we are currently in dialogue to see if we can jointly agree a solution. In line with this Paul Chapman will carry out a joint exercise with Royal Mail to compare the affect of including and excluding SPDOs in the IWT on the parent units performance and workload.
Any enquiries to Bob Gibson’s Office, quoting reference 230.03 Email address: hnutley@cwu.org or Mstewart@cwu.org

Yours sincerely

Bob Gibson
CWU Assistant Secretary – Outdoor