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Parce collections

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LouBarlow
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Joined: 15 Oct 2007, 18:56

Re: Parce collections

Post by LouBarlow »

TopperGas wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 19:25
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:23
How is this any different from emptying a post office which a lot of people do during their duty? Something else to moan about that is keeping you in a job I suppose.
Easy answer, for a box you just insert a key, open the box, scan the barcode, take out a handful of letters, shut the box, I'm assuming for Parcels Collects, you'll have to lock up your trolley, enter the shop, try and find somebody he knows why you're there, wait whilst they find all the parcels, scan them all, then call you COM, as there's far too many to fit in your trolley, then explain to the shop worker why you can't take them all, then wait whilst then gets the manager, so you can explain it all again to him why you can't take all the parcel.
So it isn’t any different to emptying a post office then, as I said. Many of us have done this on town rounds for years. Unless you are on a trolley round, you drive the van to the shop and empty it as you do a post office. If it adds time to your day, and you can’t complete, you follow the same procedure as you would otherwise. Not everything has to be difficult.
CarryingMGMT
EX ROYAL MAIL
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Gender: Male

Re: Parce collections

Post by CarryingMGMT »

LouBarlow wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 05:31
TopperGas wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 19:25
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:23
How is this any different from emptying a post office which a lot of people do during their duty? Something else to moan about that is keeping you in a job I suppose.
Easy answer, for a box you just insert a key, open the box, scan the barcode, take out a handful of letters, shut the box, I'm assuming for Parcels Collects, you'll have to lock up your trolley, enter the shop, try and find somebody he knows why you're there, wait whilst they find all the parcels, scan them all, then call you COM, as there's far too many to fit in your trolley, then explain to the shop worker why you can't take them all, then wait whilst then gets the manager, so you can explain it all again to him why you can't take all the parcel.
So it isn’t any different to emptying a post office then, as I said. Many of us have done this on town rounds for years. Unless you are on a trolley round, you drive the van to the shop and empty it as you do a post office. If it adds time to your day, and you can’t complete, you follow the same procedure as you would otherwise. Not everything has to be difficult.
Why is every single post of yours so self-righteous and smug?
LouBarlow
Posts: 4709
Joined: 15 Oct 2007, 18:56

Re: Parce collections

Post by LouBarlow »

CarryingMGMT wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 10:54
LouBarlow wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 05:31
TopperGas wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 19:25
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:23
How is this any different from emptying a post office which a lot of people do during their duty? Something else to moan about that is keeping you in a job I suppose.
Easy answer, for a box you just insert a key, open the box, scan the barcode, take out a handful of letters, shut the box, I'm assuming for Parcels Collects, you'll have to lock up your trolley, enter the shop, try and find somebody he knows why you're there, wait whilst they find all the parcels, scan them all, then call you COM, as there's far too many to fit in your trolley, then explain to the shop worker why you can't take them all, then wait whilst then gets the manager, so you can explain it all again to him why you can't take all the parcel.
So it isn’t any different to emptying a post office then, as I said. Many of us have done this on town rounds for years. Unless you are on a trolley round, you drive the van to the shop and empty it as you do a post office. If it adds time to your day, and you can’t complete, you follow the same procedure as you would otherwise. Not everything has to be difficult.
Why is every single post of yours so self-righteous and smug?
Why aren’t you out looking for a job instead of spending every hour, night and day, trolling a forum for a job you ‘couldn’t wait to leave’? Life is full of mysteries.

Honest answer - I respond in kind. If I get a snide comment, it will get some back.
manboss
Posts: 110
Joined: 20 Feb 2013, 15:55
Gender: Male

Re: Parce collections

Post by manboss »

CarryingMGMT wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 10:54
Why is every single post of yours so self-righteous and smug?
CarryingMGMT, just add this person to your ignore list.
LouBarlow
Posts: 4709
Joined: 15 Oct 2007, 18:56

Re: Parce collections

Post by LouBarlow »

manboss wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 17:03
CarryingMGMT wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 10:54
Why is every single post of yours so self-righteous and smug?
CarryingMGMT, just add this person to your ignore list.
Why would they do that? They only post here for a reaction. When have they ever posted anything constructive about the job?
TopperGas
Posts: 3459
Joined: 13 Feb 2021, 22:46
Gender: Male

Re: Parce collections

Post by TopperGas »

LouBarlow wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 05:31
TopperGas wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 19:25
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:23
How is this any different from emptying a post office which a lot of people do during their duty? Something else to moan about that is keeping you in a job I suppose.
Easy answer, for a box you just insert a key, open the box, scan the barcode, take out a handful of letters, shut the box, I'm assuming for Parcels Collects, you'll have to lock up your trolley, enter the shop, try and find somebody he knows why you're there, wait whilst they find all the parcels, scan them all, then call you COM, as there's far too many to fit in your trolley, then explain to the shop worker why you can't take them all, then wait whilst then gets the manager, so you can explain it all again to him why you can't take all the parcel.
So it isn’t any different to emptying a post office then, as I said. Many of us have done this on town rounds for years. Unless you are on a trolley round, you drive the van to the shop and empty it as you do a post office. If it adds time to your day, and you can’t complete, you follow the same procedure as you would otherwise. Not everything has to be difficult.
Who said it was difficult? The difference with a PO is they've been doing it for years not just starting, although if Collect+ points are becoming part of the collection runs then hopefully more time will be added, not just expect the collection driver to due it as part of their present run.
Stovies
Posts: 16
Joined: 24 Apr 2018, 21:21
Gender: Male

Re: Parce collections

Post by Stovies »

CarryingMGMT wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 10:54
LouBarlow wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 05:31
TopperGas wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 19:25
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:23
How is this any different from emptying a post office which a lot of people do during their duty? Something else to moan about that is keeping you in a job I suppose.
Easy answer, for a box you just insert a key, open the box, scan the barcode, take out a handful of letters, shut the box, I'm assuming for Parcels Collects, you'll have to lock up your trolley, enter the shop, try and find somebody he knows why you're there, wait whilst they find all the parcels, scan them all, then call you COM, as there's far too many to fit in your trolley, then explain to the shop worker why you can't take them all, then wait whilst then gets the manager, so you can explain it all again to him why you can't take all the parcel.
So it isn’t any different to emptying a post office then, as I said. Many of us have done this on town rounds for years. Unless you are on a trolley round, you drive the van to the shop and empty it as you do a post office. If it adds time to your day, and you can’t complete, you follow the same procedure as you would otherwise. Not everything has to be difficult.
Why is every single post of yours so self-righteous and smug?
Well said MGMT.
LouBarlow
Posts: 4709
Joined: 15 Oct 2007, 18:56

Re: Parce collections

Post by LouBarlow »

Stovies wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 00:39
CarryingMGMT wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 10:54
LouBarlow wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 05:31
TopperGas wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 19:25
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:23
How is this any different from emptying a post office which a lot of people do during their duty? Something else to moan about that is keeping you in a job I suppose.
Easy answer, for a box you just insert a key, open the box, scan the barcode, take out a handful of letters, shut the box, I'm assuming for Parcels Collects, you'll have to lock up your trolley, enter the shop, try and find somebody he knows why you're there, wait whilst they find all the parcels, scan them all, then call you COM, as there's far too many to fit in your trolley, then explain to the shop worker why you can't take them all, then wait whilst then gets the manager, so you can explain it all again to him why you can't take all the parcel.
So it isn’t any different to emptying a post office then, as I said. Many of us have done this on town rounds for years. Unless you are on a trolley round, you drive the van to the shop and empty it as you do a post office. If it adds time to your day, and you can’t complete, you follow the same procedure as you would otherwise. Not everything has to be difficult.
Why is every single post of yours so self-righteous and smug?
Well said MGMT.
Almost as smug and self-righteous as your own contribution here

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=105012&p=978458#top

Of your 12 posts on here in all these years, that was definitely your most constructive.
ted_e_bear
Posts: 4078
Joined: 03 Sep 2012, 19:37
Gender: Male

Re: Parce collections

Post by ted_e_bear »

LouBarlow wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 07:28
Stovies wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 00:39
CarryingMGMT wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 10:54
LouBarlow wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 05:31
TopperGas wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 19:25
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:23
How is this any different from emptying a post office which a lot of people do during their duty? Something else to moan about that is keeping you in a job I suppose.
Easy answer, for a box you just insert a key, open the box, scan the barcode, take out a handful of letters, shut the box, I'm assuming for Parcels Collects, you'll have to lock up your trolley, enter the shop, try and find somebody he knows why you're there, wait whilst they find all the parcels, scan them all, then call you COM, as there's far too many to fit in your trolley, then explain to the shop worker why you can't take them all, then wait whilst then gets the manager, so you can explain it all again to him why you can't take all the parcel.
So it isn’t any different to emptying a post office then, as I said. Many of us have done this on town rounds for years. Unless you are on a trolley round, you drive the van to the shop and empty it as you do a post office. If it adds time to your day, and you can’t complete, you follow the same procedure as you would otherwise. Not everything has to be difficult.
Why is every single post of yours so self-righteous and smug?
Well said MGMT.
Almost as smug and self-righteous as your own contribution here

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=105012&p=978458#top

Of your 12 posts on here in all these years, that was definitely your most constructive.
I've just re read the opening section of that thread referred to above and it's really wound me up, what a twat that wpc is.
LouBarlow
Posts: 4709
Joined: 15 Oct 2007, 18:56

Re: Parce collections

Post by LouBarlow »

Stovies wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 09:11
LouBarlow wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 07:28
Stovies wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 00:39
CarryingMGMT wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 10:54
LouBarlow wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 05:31
TopperGas wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 19:25
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:23
How is this any different from emptying a post office which a lot of people do during their duty? Something else to moan about that is keeping you in a job I suppose.
Easy answer, for a box you just insert a key, open the box, scan the barcode, take out a handful of letters, shut the box, I'm assuming for Parcels Collects, you'll have to lock up your trolley, enter the shop, try and find somebody he knows why you're there, wait whilst they find all the parcels, scan them all, then call you COM, as there's far too many to fit in your trolley, then explain to the shop worker why you can't take them all, then wait whilst then gets the manager, so you can explain it all again to him why you can't take all the parcel.
So it isn’t any different to emptying a post office then, as I said. Many of us have done this on town rounds for years. Unless you are on a trolley round, you drive the van to the shop and empty it as you do a post office. If it adds time to your day, and you can’t complete, you follow the same procedure as you would otherwise. Not everything has to be difficult.
Why is every single post of yours so self-righteous and smug?
Well said MGMT.
Almost as smug and self-righteous as your own contribution here

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=105012&p=978458#top

Of your 12 posts on here in all these years, that was definitely your most constructive.

You are a very strange person.
I bet all your colleagues think you are a prick I know I do
I am devastated.
CarryingMGMT
EX ROYAL MAIL
Posts: 310
Joined: 29 Jul 2023, 22:33
Gender: Male

Re: Parce collections

Post by CarryingMGMT »

LouBarlow wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 09:52

I am devastated.
Troll :Applause :chuckle

Keep tiptoes around the real posties around here lol :wink: I'm sure your life is great on your 'town' delivery duty, emptying Post Offices etc on top of your 2000 call P&L walks from a van.

Tell your COMs I said Hi
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qwerty2
Posts: 2077
Joined: 30 Jun 2009, 00:42
Gender: Male

Re: Parce collections

Post by qwerty2 »

Calm down girls :left:
Anyway what is “Parce collections” :thumbup
Seymour Buts
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Joined: 22 Jun 2017, 20:17
Gender: Male

Re: Parce collections

Post by Seymour Buts »

This sounds like an expansion to current services to be honest. I already collect from a drop and go shop, and it is on a dedicated collection route.
twoloops
Posts: 2031
Joined: 24 May 2017, 20:52
Gender: Male
Location: Sheffield

Re: Parce collections

Post by twoloops »

Today we had 7 labels for 7 letters that had been posted in a postbox on our walk, all they had on the envelope was the destination postcode, we passed them onto the afternoon manager when we got back, let them deal with it :arrrghhh
Pidleypoo
Posts: 702
Joined: 17 Dec 2014, 10:05
Gender: Male

Re: Parce collections

Post by Pidleypoo »

ted_e_bear wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 09:12
LouBarlow wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 07:28
Stovies wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 00:39
CarryingMGMT wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 10:54
LouBarlow wrote:
24 Feb 2024, 05:31
TopperGas wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 19:25
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:23
How is this any different from emptying a post office which a lot of people do during their duty? Something else to moan about that is keeping you in a job I suppose.
Easy answer, for a box you just insert a key, open the box, scan the barcode, take out a handful of letters, shut the box, I'm assuming for Parcels Collects, you'll have to lock up your trolley, enter the shop, try and find somebody he knows why you're there, wait whilst they find all the parcels, scan them all, then call you COM, as there's far too many to fit in your trolley, then explain to the shop worker why you can't take them all, then wait whilst then gets the manager, so you can explain it all again to him why you can't take all the parcel.
So it isn’t any different to emptying a post office then, as I said. Many of us have done this on town rounds for years. Unless you are on a trolley round, you drive the van to the shop and empty it as you do a post office. If it adds time to your day, and you can’t complete, you follow the same procedure as you would otherwise. Not everything has to be difficult.
Why is every single post of yours so self-righteous and smug?
Well said MGMT.
Almost as smug and self-righteous as your own contribution here

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=105012&p=978458#top

Of your 12 posts on here in all these years, that was definitely your most constructive.
I've just re read the opening section of that thread referred to above and it's really wound me up, what a twat that wpc is.
I’ve just read it too and Jesus man , the only one that should be out of a job is that coach ffs.