Would it be a stupid thought that they're doing their usual asking for something ridiculous when they really want a simpler end result like committing to only 1c mail on Saturday which would still satisfy the USO like this does.
I had the same thought after calming down from seeing that ridiculous chart. I still can't tell if we're being manipulated again.
They will not retain people by Chorltonising the job. Delivery 2.0 is not about restoring QoS. More honestly it should be called Workforce 2.0 - the plan to accelerate turnover until the new contracts form the majority. Staffing has been slashed by two thirds since the abolition of the second delivery, but labour will remain their largest expenditure until they can replace us with machines (just as soon as they find a PSM that can deal with red sleeves, or LSMs that can read letters the right way up).
It’s already a huge mess when you have a bulk mailing for every address and are told to prep them all and take where you are going.
That's what the DTS system is supposed to stop. The companies sending them bulk postings can't be using DSA economy, as any DSA economy items where there's no 1C for an address should get held by the DTS system until the next day (maximum of 5 days)
It’s already a huge mess when you have a bulk mailing for every address and are told to prep them all and take where you are going.
That's what the DTS system is supposed to stop. The companies sending them bulk postings can't be using DSA economy, as any DSA economy items where there's no 1C for an address should get held by the DTS system until the next day (maximum of 5 days)
Does it just get held until Wednesday each week then you get it dumped on your duty by the system, given we hardly get any mail on a Monday or Tuesday, then it takes off from Wednesday onwards.
Still don't understand why what we did pre-pandemic is suddenly undoable.
Maybe relax the timings a little if its needed, lets 2nd class have an extra day in busier times, but f**k me, it worked, now it doesn't. They keep fixing what wasn't, at one time, really broken....
It’s already a huge mess when you have a bulk mailing for every address and are told to prep them all and take where you are going.
That's what the DTS system is supposed to stop. The companies sending them bulk postings can't be using DSA economy, as any DSA economy items where there's no 1C for an address should get held by the DTS system until the next day (maximum of 5 days)
Does it just get held until Wednesday each week then you get it dumped on your duty by the system, given we hardly get any mail on a Monday or Tuesday, then it takes off from Wednesday onwards.
Probably by the Tuesday night it has hit the 5 day limit and gets automatically released
We were hammered today and that wasn’t election mail, it was just mail, trays of the stuff, to every door. The idea that this volume could be held back and then released so that we’re at every pigging door, just to satisfy some spreadsheet hugging twit, is monstrous. Being at every door with today’s mail meant four bundles per loop. That’s not physically sustainable across a long walk. Something has to give. I am not a donkey.
’You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.’
We were hammered today and that wasn’t election mail, it was just mail, trays of the stuff, to every door. The idea that this volume could be held back and then released so that we’re at every pigging door, just to satisfy some spreadsheet hugging twit, is monstrous. Being at every door with today’s mail meant four bundles per loop. That’s not physically sustainable across a long walk. Something has to give. I am not a donkey.
Same here, today horrendous, yesterday and Monday f**k all.
We were hammered today and that wasn’t election mail, it was just mail, trays of the stuff, to every door. The idea that this volume could be held back and then released so that we’re at every pigging door, just to satisfy some spreadsheet hugging twit, is monstrous. Being at every door with today’s mail meant four bundles per loop. That’s not physically sustainable across a long walk. Something has to give. I am not a donkey.
We used to do 4 or 5 bundles every bag just about everyday 15-20 years ago!!!!!!! And 3 D2Ds average
We were hammered today and that wasn’t election mail, it was just mail, trays of the stuff, to every door. The idea that this volume could be held back and then released so that we’re at every pigging door, just to satisfy some spreadsheet hugging twit, is monstrous. Being at every door with today’s mail meant four bundles per loop. That’s not physically sustainable across a long walk. Something has to give. I am not a donkey.
We used to do 4 or 5 bundles every bag just about everyday 15-20 years ago!!!!!!! And 3 D2Ds average
The walks were shorter. Actually the long timers here joke about how they used to fit an entire walk in one bag. So a bundle, is not the same size for everyone. When I say a bundle, I mean a slab.
’You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.’
Do away with Tuesday starts in the mail centre s and equalise the mail across the week
Not possible, too much risk of batches becoming too large for the available time. Dispatch times and DO start times would have to be made later. Once the network changes come in, each batch will have a time when it's got to be ready to go out for. It could end up with the excess being sent out as manual
