The last 3 days(weds,thurs&sat) have been absolutely ridiculous for tracked on a rural round I’ve been covering with today(Saturday) being like Xmas pressure with a full cage and an extra York full of parcels including several parcel force sized parcels and 5 full mail tray small packets and tracked letters.
Only had time to to packets&parcels and 1st class letters today having done 1 loop of mail on the Wednesday and Thursday with the duty last fully cleared on the Monday.
The poor guy coming back from annual leave on Tuesday will have 5 days of mail including every house for fibrus!!
It's the same on the rural duties in my DO, we're back to peak levels for Tracked and now virtually every thing is Tracked, even Thompson seeds are sending their A4 packets of plants now by Tracked, this time last year it was fairly easy to do the Specials, Tracked and all the collections on two rural duties, now it seems impossible to do them along with the Ic mail.
Yeah, those and the washing up/dishwasher tablets in the brown packet.
I was chatting with a customer yesterday on the village duty I’ve been covering about the amount of packets&parcels I’ve had recently and he told everything he orders is free delivery.
He’s a pensioner in his early 70’s who doesn’t have a car and he literally gets around 4-5 parcels a day of food&drink items as well as cleaning products and toiletries etc.
The last 3 days(weds,thurs&sat) have been absolutely ridiculous for tracked on a rural round I’ve been covering with today(Saturday) being like Xmas pressure with a full cage and an extra York full of parcels including several parcel force sized parcels and 5 full mail tray small packets and tracked letters.
Only had time to to packets&parcels and 1st class letters today having done 1 loop of mail on the Wednesday and Thursday with the duty last fully cleared on the Monday.
The poor guy coming back from annual leave on Tuesday will have 5 days of mail including every house for fibrus!!
It's the same on the rural duties in my DO, we're back to peak levels for Tracked and now virtually every thing is Tracked, even Thompson seeds are sending their A4 packets of plants now by Tracked, this time last year it was fairly easy to do the Specials, Tracked and all the collections on two rural duties, now it seems impossible to do them along with the Ic mail.
Yeah, those and the washing up/dishwasher tablets in the brown packet.
I was chatting with a customer yesterday on the village duty I’ve been covering about the amount of packets&parcels I’ve had recently and he told everything he orders is free delivery.
He’s a pensioner in his early 70’s who doesn’t have a car and he literally gets around 4-5 parcels a day of food&drink items as well as cleaning products and toiletries etc.
He's clearly paying for delivery somewhere in the transaction if it's a regular order, rather than just a one off promotion to entice him to reorder.
It's got to the stage now that it isbe impossible to cover a pair of walks doing first class and tracked, either small 48 or first class letters are going to have to be deferred until the next day.
It's got to the stage now that it isbe impossible to cover a pair of walks doing first class and tracked, either small 48 or first class letters are going to have to be deferred until the next day.
Are there slowly growing piles of trays of flats, manual and mech letters building up under walk frames?
Personally don't give Internationals a 'Scan to core route', never been picked up on it
On our walk we scan everything tracked as Ready for Delivery we have never been told any other? It's also a lot easier.
Yeah it's an extra step having to confirm the 2d code every time but we've been told we have to do it that way, I suppose one advantage is you can check that you've scanned them all on delivery when you've finished
I suppose one advantage is you can check that you've scanned them all on delivery when you've finished
And what would be the point of that? Are you going back out & asking to scan them? Go home & switch off Ted, no one's bothered
No I'm not suggesting anyone would go back, but it's a confirmation you've delivered them all, err.....go home and switch off you say - I'm not the only one on here talking about work on Easter Sunday
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The last 3 days(weds,thurs&sat) have been absolutely ridiculous for tracked on a rural round I’ve been covering with today(Saturday) being like Xmas pressure with a full cage and an extra York full of parcels including several parcel force sized parcels and 5 full mail tray small packets and tracked letters.
Only had time to to packets&parcels and 1st class letters today having done 1 loop of mail on the Wednesday and Thursday with the duty last fully cleared on the Monday.
The poor guy coming back from annual leave on Tuesday will have 5 days of mail including every house for fibrus!!
It's the same on the rural duties in my DO, we're back to peak levels for Tracked and now virtually every thing is Tracked, even Thompson seeds are sending their A4 packets of plants now by Tracked, this time last year it was fairly easy to do the Specials, Tracked and all the collections on two rural duties, now it seems impossible to do them along with the Ic mail.
Yeah, those and the washing up/dishwasher tablets in the brown packet.
I was chatting with a customer yesterday on the village duty I’ve been covering about the amount of packets&parcels I’ve had recently and he told everything he orders is free delivery.
He’s a pensioner in his early 70’s who doesn’t have a car and he literally gets around 4-5 parcels a day of food&drink items as well as cleaning products and toiletries etc.
He's clearly paying for delivery somewhere in the transaction if it's a regular order, rather than just a one off promotion to entice him to reorder.
I said to him is it free delivery when you spend over a certain amount and he said no and that it’s just free whatever he orders.
It's got to the stage now that it isbe impossible to cover a pair of walks doing first class and tracked, either small 48 or first class letters are going to have to be deferred until the next day.
Are there slowly growing piles of trays of flats, manual and mech letters building up under walk frames?
The opposite, frames are prepped until bulging, we are told not to put first class in the frames.
I suppose one advantage is you can check that you've scanned them all on delivery when you've finished
And what would be the point of that? Are you going back out & asking to scan them? Go home & switch off Ted, no one's bothered
It acts as a check point at the end of your duty so you know everything has been delivered and something hasn't been left in the back of the van or fallen under the seat etc, hence why I assume why it counts down to zero.
The last 3 days(weds,thurs&sat) have been absolutely ridiculous for tracked on a rural round I’ve been covering with today(Saturday) being like Xmas pressure with a full cage and an extra York full of parcels including several parcel force sized parcels and 5 full mail tray small packets and tracked letters.
Only had time to to packets&parcels and 1st class letters today having done 1 loop of mail on the Wednesday and Thursday with the duty last fully cleared on the Monday.
The poor guy coming back from annual leave on Tuesday will have 5 days of mail including every house for fibrus!!
It's the same on the rural duties in my DO, we're back to peak levels for Tracked and now virtually every thing is Tracked, even Thompson seeds are sending their A4 packets of plants now by Tracked, this time last year it was fairly easy to do the Specials, Tracked and all the collections on two rural duties, now it seems impossible to do them along with the Ic mail.
Yeah, those and the washing up/dishwasher tablets in the brown packet.
I was chatting with a customer yesterday on the village duty I’ve been covering about the amount of packets&parcels I’ve had recently and he told everything he orders is free delivery.
He’s a pensioner in his early 70’s who doesn’t have a car and he literally gets around 4-5 parcels a day of food&drink items as well as cleaning products and toiletries etc.
He's clearly paying for delivery somewhere in the transaction if it's a regular order, rather than just a one off promotion to entice him to reorder.
I said to him is it free delivery when you spend over a certain amount and he said no and that it’s just free whatever he orders.
The point was that he must be paying somewhere, if it not an upfront delivery charge it must be included in whatever he's buying, as no company is just going to take the hit of paying delivery charges. Having said that it seems that most items on Amazon are free delivery if you just direct them to a local collection point or locker.
The last 3 days(weds,thurs&sat) have been absolutely ridiculous for tracked on a rural round I’ve been covering with today(Saturday) being like Xmas pressure with a full cage and an extra York full of parcels including several parcel force sized parcels and 5 full mail tray small packets and tracked letters.
Only had time to to packets&parcels and 1st class letters today having done 1 loop of mail on the Wednesday and Thursday with the duty last fully cleared on the Monday.
The poor guy coming back from annual leave on Tuesday will have 5 days of mail including every house for fibrus!!
It's the same on the rural duties in my DO, we're back to peak levels for Tracked and now virtually every thing is Tracked, even Thompson seeds are sending their A4 packets of plants now by Tracked, this time last year it was fairly easy to do the Specials, Tracked and all the collections on two rural duties, now it seems impossible to do them along with the Ic mail.
Yeah, those and the washing up/dishwasher tablets in the brown packet.
I was chatting with a customer yesterday on the village duty I’ve been covering about the amount of packets&parcels I’ve had recently and he told everything he orders is free delivery.
He’s a pensioner in his early 70’s who doesn’t have a car and he literally gets around 4-5 parcels a day of food&drink items as well as cleaning products and toiletries etc.
He's clearly paying for delivery somewhere in the transaction if it's a regular order, rather than just a one off promotion to entice him to reorder.
I said to him is it free delivery when you spend over a certain amount and he said no and that it’s just free whatever he orders.
The point was that he must be paying somewhere, if it not an upfront delivery charge it must be included in whatever he's buying, as no company is just going to take the hit of paying delivery charges. Having said that it seems that most items on Amazon are free delivery if you just direct them to a local collection point or locker.
On Amazon you can get free delivery if you're a member of Prime.
The last 3 days(weds,thurs&sat) have been absolutely ridiculous for tracked on a rural round I’ve been covering with today(Saturday) being like Xmas pressure with a full cage and an extra York full of parcels including several parcel force sized parcels and 5 full mail tray small packets and tracked letters.
Only had time to to packets&parcels and 1st class letters today having done 1 loop of mail on the Wednesday and Thursday with the duty last fully cleared on the Monday.
The poor guy coming back from annual leave on Tuesday will have 5 days of mail including every house for fibrus!!
It's the same on the rural duties in my DO, we're back to peak levels for Tracked and now virtually every thing is Tracked, even Thompson seeds are sending their A4 packets of plants now by Tracked, this time last year it was fairly easy to do the Specials, Tracked and all the collections on two rural duties, now it seems impossible to do them along with the Ic mail.
Yeah, those and the washing up/dishwasher tablets in the brown packet.
I was chatting with a customer yesterday on the village duty I’ve been covering about the amount of packets&parcels I’ve had recently and he told everything he orders is free delivery.
He’s a pensioner in his early 70’s who doesn’t have a car and he literally gets around 4-5 parcels a day of food&drink items as well as cleaning products and toiletries etc.
He's clearly paying for delivery somewhere in the transaction if it's a regular order, rather than just a one off promotion to entice him to reorder.
I said to him is it free delivery when you spend over a certain amount and he said no and that it’s just free whatever he orders.
The point was that he must be paying somewhere, if it not an upfront delivery charge it must be included in whatever he's buying, as no company is just going to take the hit of paying delivery charges. Having said that it seems that most items on Amazon are free delivery if you just direct them to a local collection point or locker.
I think post office local collect Amazon packets&parcels are free delivery ?
The last 3 days(weds,thurs&sat) have been absolutely ridiculous for tracked on a rural round I’ve been covering with today(Saturday) being like Xmas pressure with a full cage and an extra York full of parcels including several parcel force sized parcels and 5 full mail tray small packets and tracked letters.
Only had time to to packets&parcels and 1st class letters today having done 1 loop of mail on the Wednesday and Thursday with the duty last fully cleared on the Monday.
The poor guy coming back from annual leave on Tuesday will have 5 days of mail including every house for fibrus!!
It's the same on the rural duties in my DO, we're back to peak levels for Tracked and now virtually every thing is Tracked, even Thompson seeds are sending their A4 packets of plants now by Tracked, this time last year it was fairly easy to do the Specials, Tracked and all the collections on two rural duties, now it seems impossible to do them along with the Ic mail.
Yeah, those and the washing up/dishwasher tablets in the brown packet.
I was chatting with a customer yesterday on the village duty I’ve been covering about the amount of packets&parcels I’ve had recently and he told everything he orders is free delivery.
He’s a pensioner in his early 70’s who doesn’t have a car and he literally gets around 4-5 parcels a day of food&drink items as well as cleaning products and toiletries etc.
He's clearly paying for delivery somewhere in the transaction if it's a regular order, rather than just a one off promotion to entice him to reorder.
I said to him is it free delivery when you spend over a certain amount and he said no and that it’s just free whatever he orders.
The point was that he must be paying somewhere, if it not an upfront delivery charge it must be included in whatever he's buying, as no company is just going to take the hit of paying delivery charges. Having said that it seems that most items on Amazon are free delivery if you just direct them to a local collection point or locker.
On Amazon you can get free delivery if you're a member of Prime.
But you have to pay for Prime......no such thing as a free lunch. Somewhere along the line the customer pays for 'Free Delivery'.
