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Bench merging

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Jahpostie
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Re: Bench merging

Post by Jahpostie »

Once you've squeezed a lemon and used up the rind it must be hard to come up with new ways to use what's left.

Imagine getting paid to try and come up with new s**t to squeeze the unsqueezable.
pieoftheday
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Re: Bench merging

Post by pieoftheday »

SpacePhoenix wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 15:25
ted_e_bear wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 14:52
rambo1 wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 14:40
But won't you still need a, well, erm, bench! Upon which to merge. Will that not take up space?
That's what I thought plus I'd imagine the bench would need to be larger than the footprint of an existing fitting, every fitting I've seen is vertical so assuming they're not planning on lowering the ceiling to fit another floor in and replacing us with posties that are all under about 4ft6 tall then I can't see it taking up less room either.
My guess is that they plan on having each bench used by multiple walks. Walk 1 does there's and ties up, then it's walk 2's turn, once they've tied up walk 3's turn and so on
With a minimum 1hr prep, just for example,one walk gets ready and goes out 10am, next 11am next 12pm, really?
rambo1
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Re: Bench merging

Post by rambo1 »

ted_e_bear wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 14:52
rambo1 wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 14:40
But won't you still need a, well, erm, bench! Upon which to merge. Will that not take up space?
That's what I thought plus I'd imagine the bench would need to be larger than the footprint of an existing fitting, every fitting I've seen is vertical so assuming they're not planning on lowering the ceiling to fit another floor in and replacing us with posties that are all under about 4ft6 tall then I can't see it taking up less room either.
Knowing how royal mail usually works, they'll order all these benches, skip all the existing rm2000 frames, then realise it won't work, when they could have just asked our opinion. Oh well, what do we know.
rambo1
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Re: Bench merging

Post by rambo1 »

k979aaa wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 15:06
ted_e_bear wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 14:52
rambo1 wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 14:40
But won't you still need a, well, erm, bench! Upon which to merge. Will that not take up space?
That's what I thought plus I'd imagine the bench would need to be larger than the footprint of an existing fitting, every fitting I've seen is vertical so assuming they're not planning on lowering the ceiling to fit another floor in and replacing us with posties that are all under about 4ft6 tall then I can't see it taking up less room either.
Get someone who is 2'6" in the back off a peugeot partner and we can bench merge on the move!
That would just be discrimination against dwarfs.