The "How was your day" thread.

[SpacePhoenix]

First letter past 1300 today We used to say 'if you don't laugh, you'll cry' for far less.

The mech work volumes were insane last night

I'll bet your start/finish time wasn't affected though.

In MCs finish times are dispatch times. Anything not ready for them times fails

[BenacreNick]

Beautiful sunny day today and we have just about caught up after yesterday's council bulk posting.

So all in all pretty good.

It's football tomorrow, so hopefully a good finish time for anyone that wants to go.

[SpacePhoenix]

Beautiful sunny day today and we have just about caught up after yesterday's council bulk posting.

So all in all pretty good.

It's football tomorrow, so hopefully a good finish time for anyone that wants to go.

Locally council tax comes through next week

[sindba]

Busiest Monday in years. Stacks of crappy marketing mail and mailouts.

Maybe the mail centre are practicing for the USO change.

[SpacePhoenix]

Busiest Monday in years. Stacks of crappy marketing mail and mailouts.

Maybe the mail centre are practicing for the USO change.

If it was mech mail then it's probably a combination of DSA firms sending a shitload of normal DSA plus a shitload of DSA Economy and 2C hitting the 5 day limit for the DTS.

[Woody84]

Delivery was light

Collections heavy

Had my first negative review on my doorstep… 0/10 one day last week.

Sun was shining though

[BenacreNick]

Great, we had the opportunity to help out a colleague with a few loops and today would have been even better if the lorries could turn up on time.

[Mr Rush]

Had my first negative review on my doorstep… 0/10 one day last week.

You have to wonder if someone's finger slipped because even receiving the packet at all would warrant 1/10.

I've come to observe these days, as workload waxes and wanes, that the lightest days have now become the longest days (and therefore the worst). We're out the door early, but without Job & Finish we're out past 3PM regardless. Conversely, on the worst days we're not dropping a letter until past noon but intransigently working to our time which makes those our shortest outdoor spans. I think I can just about remember what it felt like to be motivated to provide a public utility to a high quality of service.

[SpacePhoenix]

Great, we had the opportunity to help out a colleague with a few loops and today would have been even better if the lorries could turn up on time.

Probably roadworks somewhere between your DO and the MC. Locally our lorries often leave early if the mail is ready

[sindba]

Great, we had the opportunity to help out a colleague with a few loops and today would have been even better if the lorries could turn up on time.

Probably roadworks somewhere between your DO and the MC. Locally our lorries often leave early if the mail is ready

Is that why you just chuck all the parcels, mail and sometimes specials for every postcode in a few big yorks for us to sort out ourselves?

[SpacePhoenix]

Great, we had the opportunity to help out a colleague with a few loops and today would have been even better if the lorries could turn up on time.

Probably roadworks somewhere between your DO and the MC. Locally our lorries often leave early if the mail is ready

Is that why you just chuck all the parcels, mail and sometimes specials for every postcode in a few big yorks for us to sort out ourselves?

We don't, other MCs might. For MCs that have got packet sorting machines they probably bung through them anything that the machine has got a chance of sorting. If it's a direct york from a hub, we don't touch them, they come off the lorry from the hub and straight over to the bay for the lorry to the DO. Any Tracked letters/flats will go with the packets as we don't have a separate frame for them, there's not enough of them to justify having a frame for them.

Everyone seems to forget that a good chunk of what MCs send to DOs as packets are technically large letters.

[TooManyLoops]

Had the fear walking into the office this morning after my day off

Fingers crossed and thinking 2 bags left over or less would be OK....





...CLEAR FITTING

[Woody84]

Very stressful.


Packets and parcels by myself on a duty Ive never done before with a load over from the weekend.

I was just getting into my stride on a duty working (and getting on) really well with the van share as the driver and they’ve decided to move me.

[Barnacle]

Very stressful.


Packets and parcels by myself on a duty Ive never done before with a load over from the weekend.

I was just getting into my stride on a duty working (and getting on) really well with the van share as the driver and they’ve decided to move me.

It’s lovely how they do that on a whim.

[twoloops]

My partners on leave, gave me a newish new starter for the week, nice lad, but boy why are they so frightened to take stuff back? I told him to stop bang on last letter, head back to the van, any mail & tracked go back, I had to go looking for him, he was bricking it, I’ve worked out if you take tracked back, they get the afternoon staff to deliver them, they even sometimes do a bit of mail