franking machine

[SpacePhoenix]

Why should us postmen be franking stamps that should be done in the mail centre.
We are there to deliver the letters and not be getting out a pen every other call crossing off letters in the pouring rain.
If the Mail Centres aren't doing it to save money why should we be doing it on delivery as we have enough to do with all the extras we have been given . It seems to me that delivery have been given more and more to do each day and the Mail Centres have been given less

We just don't have the staff anymore. Very rare for there not to be a shift without half a dozen casuals. Late shift staff are probably being told early on in a shift to stop cancelling stamps and focus on just sorting the mail to make sure it goes out the door on time

Same on Delivery as well but the butt stops with us to get all the s**t. Guess what!! we are the same as you at the Mail Centre with staff cuts as well and hours reduced, but we cant move it down the line like you as there is nobody else.

Everything (at least in MCs) seems to revolve around budgets these days, it seems like if there's not the budget for something, it doesn't happen. Staffing these days seems to be done to budget and not to work load

[Dorset Plodder]

Same on Delivery as well but the butt stops with us to get all the s**t. Guess what!! we are the same as you at the Mail Centre with staff cuts as well and hours reduced, but we cant move it down the line like you as there is nobody else.

You're right Eastie it is one of the Major Complaints. Whatever Cock Up there's been during transportation, or sorting, once it gets to the Delivery Offices it's, "Well you've got to get it all delivered today ... Everything's got to go ... It's Very Important .... It's the USO .... Royal Mail will get Fined (He'll lose his Bonus more likely)... Etc..etc.."

Doesn't matter that the Yorks Full of Time Sensitive Sales Brochures were left sitting around in some dark corner of the Mail Centre... or some Idiot Driver put all the wrong mail onto the truck and it ended up at the wrong place...... Election Leaflets that you should have had a week to deliver turn up 4 days Late! No as soon as it gets to the DO everything's got to be Done by the Book ... No Mistakes ... No Allowances for Error. It would be laughable if it wasn't such a Pain.

[twoloops]

Would you do this?

[jjp666]

yes, nothing to do with royalism, it is about cancelling the stamps.

[pieoftheday]

Would you do this?

Yes I would. Perhaps the sender shouldnt have stamped 'snail mail ' on it,