The "How was your day" thread.

[Mr Rush]

Who's bright idea was it to put the polling cards through the sequencing? f***ing shambles

This utter clown show can't implode soon enough.

[SpacePhoenix]

Who's bright idea was it to put the polling cards through the sequencing? f***ing shambles

This utter clown show can't implode soon enough.

If it hasn't gone as a direct tray to a DO if it's mechable it'll always go over to the machines. Was it a card or an envelope?

[ted_e_bear]

Who's bright idea was it to put the polling cards through the sequencing? f***ing shambles

This utter clown show can't implode soon enough.

Eh...wasn't it better that they were in walk order ?

[Mr Rush]

Who's bright idea was it to put the polling cards through the sequencing?

Eh...wasn't it better that they were in walk order ?

Your fatal error was assuming they actually all got sequenced. Half were just shuffled to the back of the deck. They still have to be picked out and counted/weighed/astrologically divined. And they didn't all turn up on the same day so we can't just clear them all in one go if we wanted to be done with them.

Was it a card or an envelope?

Envelopes, because two pieces of disposable paper is an environmental improvement over a single piece of card. DSA too. A real litany of insults.

[SpacePhoenix]

Half were just shuffled to the back of the deck. They still have to be picked out and counted/weighed/astrologically divined.

When was the last time that the Route Planner data was updated? The only reason there'd be like that is if the Route Planner data is well out of date.

And they didn't all turn up on the same day so we can't just clear them all in one go if we wanted to be done with them.

That's probably down to the DTS.

Envelopes, because two pieces of disposable paper is an environmental improvement over a single piece of card. DSA too. A real litany of insults.

Envelopes run better through the machines than card

[ted_e_bear]

Who's bright idea was it to put the polling cards through the sequencing?

Eh...wasn't it better that they were in walk order ?

Your fatal error was assuming they actually all got sequenced. Half were just shuffled to the back of the deck. They still have to be picked out and counted/weighed/astrologically divined. And they didn't all turn up on the same day so we can't just clear them all in one go if we wanted to be done with them.

I'm ashamed I should have predicted that error, I foolishly assumed that having the appropriate machinery to do so RM would have presented them correctly, please rest in the knowledge that I've given myself a thorough kicking for being so naive.

[SpacePhoenix]

Who's bright idea was it to put the polling cards through the sequencing?

Eh...wasn't it better that they were in walk order ?

Your fatal error was assuming they actually all got sequenced. Half were just shuffled to the back of the deck. They still have to be picked out and counted/weighed/astrologically divined. And they didn't all turn up on the same day so we can't just clear them all in one go if we wanted to be done with them.

I'm ashamed I should have predicted that error, I foolishly assumed that having the appropriate machinery to do so RM would have presented them correctly, please rest in the knowledge that I've given myself a thorough kicking for being so naive.

All most certainly down to the DO not keeping the Route Planner data up to date. The sort pans the machines use are written based on the data in Route Planner. There's probably enough data for the machines to work out which walk they are proper to but not enough data to know where they go in the sequence, that's why they get kicked to the back of the mail for the walk. If the Route Planner data had been kept up to date, the machine would have had the data it needed to work out where in the sequence the items belong.

Every time we get a bulk posting like council tax through it shows up which DOs are failing to keep their Route Planner data up to date, the ones that don't have thick wads of mail between the yellow (end of sequenced, start of walksort for the walk) and blue cards (end of mail for the walk).

Once there was a new build block of flats where the CSS was always rejecting the mail for as there couldn't have been any Route Planner data for the flats, so the machine thought that the mail wasn't proper to any walks on the batch. After a while it suddenly stopped rejecting it, so at that point the DO must have updated the Route Planner data and then the sort plan for the batch would have had its turn to be updated.

[Mr Rush]

Farewell to another colleague whose name I didn't know until they'd already left. The door is revolving too quickly for me to put names to faces.

This company has no-one to blame but themselves for this mess

[Barnacle]

Farewell to another colleague whose name I didn't know until they'd already left. The door is revolving too quickly for me to put names to faces.

This company has no-one to blame but themselves for this mess

We can’t keep hold of anyone either. Treat people like trash and guess what, they leave

[clashcityrocker]

After 2 ridiculously light days the duties are clear.
It was so obvious that we were going to clear today that we didn't even consider using the sterile 1st class tray.

[yellowbelly]

After 2 ridiculously light days the duties are clear.
It was so obvious that we were going to clear today that we didn't even consider using the sterile 1st class tray.

Pardon my ignorance but what's a 'sterile 1st class tray'?

[clashcityrocker]

Pardon my ignorance but what's a 'sterile 1st class tray'?

We are not allowed to prep our first class mail into the frame during prep.
It has to be placed in what they call a sterile 1st class tray.

Only when it is clear what we are going to deliver that day are we allowed to prep the first class mail into the frame.
It is all about maintaining the integrity of the pipeline or something.

[yellowbelly]

Pardon my ignorance but what's a 'sterile 1st class tray'?

We are not allowed to prep our first class mail into the frame during prep.
It has to be placed in what they call a sterile 1st class tray.

Only when it is clear what we are going to deliver that day are we allowed to prep the first class mail into the frame.
It is all about maintaining the integrity of the pipeline or something.

Further dumb question:

So do you prep all the low priority stuff into the frame and then when you've decided what loops you can take out (say loops 1-5) you put the 1st from the sterile tray into those loops? Then just take the 1st (that's still in the sterile tray) as standalone ordered bundle(s) for loops 6-10, leaving the low priority stuff for 6-10 in the frame?

[clashcityrocker]

Yes that is how it works.

[Mr Rush]

It has to be placed in what they call a sterile 1st class tray.

Now I know what to call the rammed tray of 1C postal ballots that didn't go anywhere.

One tray of sequenced and one tray of sequenced ballot papers. Every walk. Remember when you had to provide a good reason for why you couldn't attend a polling station?