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Knackered

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XCHpostie
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Re: Knackered

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Sounds like the young post girl is running around carrying heavy bags.
Solution =Use a trolley before it breaks your back.
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Re: Knackered

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You can't use a trolley to get to every house, plus most parcels aren't heavy just awkward to carry in your bag.

Although she's only confirmed what most of us say anyway, rounds are just getting to big.
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Re: Knackered

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I don’t get the carrying a bag on the shoulder anymore, the old excuse of it saves me time etc is gone so why do it? When I’m off & my round gets covered there’s always loads of bags on the back of the hct where someone is looping the roads. I have a block of flats that requires a bag some days but that’s it, the rest of the time people are breaking the ssow & risking their job to possibly save a few minutes 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Re: Knackered

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A Royal Mail spokesperson said: “We are committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of our 130,000 people and have an extensive range of programmes and tools in place to support colleagues.

“All routes are carefully planned to ensure that the work can be delivered in the time allowed for and are reviewed regularly to facilitate fair, manageable and balanced walks.

:so there :hmmmm :so there :hmmmm
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BenacreNick wrote:
24 Jul 2023, 15:59
A Royal Mail spokesperson said: “We are committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of our 130,000 people and have an extensive range of programmes and tools in place to support colleagues.

“All routes are carefully planned to ensure that the work can be delivered in the time allowed for and are reviewed regularly to facilitate fair, manageable and balanced walks.

:so there :hmmmm :so there :hmmmm
They must have missed my office then.
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Re: Knackered

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Jimbo8t2 wrote:
24 Jul 2023, 07:17
I don’t get the carrying a bag on the shoulder anymore, the old excuse of it saves me time etc is gone so why do it? When I’m off & my round gets covered there’s always loads of bags on the back of the hct where someone is looping the roads. I have a block of flats that requires a bag some days but that’s it, the rest of the time people are breaking the ssow & risking their job to possibly save a few minutes 🤷🏻‍♂️
When your walk is mostly blocks of flats you don’t have any option but to use your bags especially with the amount of packets
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Re: Knackered

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derekm wrote:
24 Jul 2023, 16:48


When your walk is mostly blocks of flats you don’t have any option but to use your bags especially with the amount of packets
And given that the max weight for a bag in flats is 5kg or 8kg depending on the type of flats you aren't exactly carrying a heavy bag.
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Re: Knackered

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Think Amy and her crew need a bit of a lesson.
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Re: Knackered

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BenacreNick wrote:
24 Jul 2023, 15:59
A Royal Mail spokesperson said: “We are committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of our 130,000 people and have an extensive range of programmes and tools in place to support colleagues.

“All routes are carefully planned to ensure that the work can be delivered in the time allowed for and are reviewed regularly to facilitate fair, manageable and balanced walks.

:so there :hmmmm :so there :hmmmm
For them to issue a statement like that is actually quite disgusting when you know the reality of whats happening in DO’s up and down the country. Not surprising yet still utterly shocking.
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“All routes are carefully planned to ensure that the work can be delivered in the time allowed for and are reviewed regularly to facilitate fair, manageable and balanced walks.

This person must have never left their office chair. An absolute lie.
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Re: Knackered

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I like the "All routes are carefully planned" bollox ;liar ;liar ;liar
Every revision they just add 200 calls to all rounds
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Re: Knackered

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Guessing that if you try the RM Pegasus walk planner,.you'll probably find NO walk times for the walks post revision.Covers.their backs when you argue you can't do the.bigger walks. Wonder what % of posties still carry bags at hurtling speeds ?
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Re: Knackered

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Her office is in London. Parcels will get nicked if she leaves a trolley on the street while some f****r signs for a special.
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Re: Knackered

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I love how your take away from this article is to attack one of our colleagues for using a bag. :crazy: