The company announced it was giving up on the last fifteen years of bollocks and reverting the job to how it used to be. 3-3½ hour walks, on your own on foot, no oversized, no scanners, no Tracked, off the street at 1PM, on the street on Saturdays before half eight, job and finish. I was elated
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The "How was your day" thread.
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Mr Rush
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
I was going to go in early this morning to prep yet more election material, but I'm so sick of wave after wave of that garbage I hit the snooze button. I fell back asleep and had the most wonderful dream...
The company announced it was giving up on the last fifteen years of bollocks and reverting the job to how it used to be. 3-3½ hour walks, on your own on foot, no oversized, no scanners, no Tracked, off the street at 1PM, on the street on Saturdays before half eight, job and finish. I was elated
The company announced it was giving up on the last fifteen years of bollocks and reverting the job to how it used to be. 3-3½ hour walks, on your own on foot, no oversized, no scanners, no Tracked, off the street at 1PM, on the street on Saturdays before half eight, job and finish. I was elated
The machine stops.
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qwerty2
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
We’ve only had postal votes to deliverMr Rush wrote: ↑22 Apr 2026, 17:00I was going to go in early this morning to prep yet more election material, but I'm so sick of wave after wave of that garbage I hit the snooze button. I fell back asleep and had the most wonderful dream...
The company announced it was giving up on the last fifteen years of bollocks and reverting the job to how it used to be. 3-3½ hour walks, on your own on foot, no oversized, no scanners, no Tracked, off the street at 1PM, on the street on Saturdays before half eight, job and finish. I was elated![]()
They’ve have had their own people doing leaflets - stuffed in and sticking out the letterboxes
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
We had a load of postal vote forms come through at the start of the week, management didn't get emailed about it before hand, normally management get a heads up about any really big bulk postingsqwerty2 wrote: ↑22 Apr 2026, 17:35We’ve only had postal votes to deliverMr Rush wrote: ↑22 Apr 2026, 17:00I was going to go in early this morning to prep yet more election material, but I'm so sick of wave after wave of that garbage I hit the snooze button. I fell back asleep and had the most wonderful dream...
The company announced it was giving up on the last fifteen years of bollocks and reverting the job to how it used to be. 3-3½ hour walks, on your own on foot, no oversized, no scanners, no Tracked, off the street at 1PM, on the street on Saturdays before half eight, job and finish. I was elated![]()
They’ve have had their own people doing leaflets - stuffed in and sticking out the letterboxes![]()
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goneaway
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
We had postal vote packs come in yesterday. All of them First Class. And lots of them. So we had to take the whole lot, not "just take where you're going" and up to three days to clear, as has happened previously with bulk mailings. And asked to leave behind letters on say a quarter of the job to make sure they all got delivered.
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
I don't know why the higher ups didn't give an exemption to allow us to roll them all over to the next days wave 1, then we could have sequenced them.goneaway wrote: ↑22 Apr 2026, 19:54We had postal vote packs come in yesterday. All of them First Class. And lots of them. So we had to take the whole lot, not "just take where you're going" and up to three days to clear, as has happened previously with bulk mailings. And asked to leave behind letters on say a quarter of the job to make sure they all got delivered.
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ted_e_bear
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
Ours came sequenced, 1st class, I'm presuming they were that DSA 1,SpacePhoenix wrote: ↑22 Apr 2026, 20:04I don't know why the higher ups didn't give an exemption to allow us to roll them all over to the next days wave 1, then we could have sequenced them.goneaway wrote: ↑22 Apr 2026, 19:54We had postal vote packs come in yesterday. All of them First Class. And lots of them. So we had to take the whole lot, not "just take where you're going" and up to three days to clear, as has happened previously with bulk mailings. And asked to leave behind letters on say a quarter of the job to make sure they all got delivered.
(don't tell anyone but they didn't all get delivered the same day
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
The markings for normal 1C and the 1C DSA are different. Yours must have arrived at the MC in time to make wave 1, locally they didn't so had to go out on wave 2. I don't think they've all come through yet.ted_e_bear wrote: ↑22 Apr 2026, 20:42Ours came sequenced, 1st class, I'm presuming they were that DSA 1,SpacePhoenix wrote: ↑22 Apr 2026, 20:04I don't know why the higher ups didn't give an exemption to allow us to roll them all over to the next days wave 1, then we could have sequenced them.goneaway wrote: ↑22 Apr 2026, 19:54We had postal vote packs come in yesterday. All of them First Class. And lots of them. So we had to take the whole lot, not "just take where you're going" and up to three days to clear, as has happened previously with bulk mailings. And asked to leave behind letters on say a quarter of the job to make sure they all got delivered.
(don't tell anyone but they didn't all get delivered the same day)
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goneaway
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
They DID come through as sequenced. All in the main trays (which made a quiet Tuesday spill over into half a second tray). So much for first class being kept separate from the other sequenced mail!SpacePhoenix wrote: ↑22 Apr 2026, 20:04I don't know why the higher ups didn't give an exemption to allow us to roll them all over to the next days wave 1, then we could have sequenced them.
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twoloops
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
How's my day
hows my k'in day 
One of the lad's asked me if I could drop him off on the way home, when he got out the car, noticed a massive ink stain on my 3 month old straw coloured velour passenger seat, must have been leaking in his side pocket all day, why is everything Royal Mail provided & do always on the cheap
One of the lad's asked me if I could drop him off on the way home, when he got out the car, noticed a massive ink stain on my 3 month old straw coloured velour passenger seat, must have been leaking in his side pocket all day, why is everything Royal Mail provided & do always on the cheap
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
Either a load of the postal vote forms have gone out to some of the DOs as direct trays or we've not had a load of them come through yet.
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Mr Rush
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
Cheapo pens ruined almost all my original pre-Dimensions blue shirts. If only I'd bought a pocket protectortwoloops wrote: ↑24 Apr 2026, 18:27One of the lad's asked me if I could drop him off on the way home, when he got out the car, noticed a massive ink stain on my 3 month old straw coloured velour passenger seat, must have been leaking in his side pocket all day, why is everything Royal Mail provided & do always on the cheap![]()
The machine stops.
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clashcityrocker
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
If it wasn't for Cottontraders and Woolovers there wouldn't have been anything to deliver.
As it was it was about a 75% call rate.
As it was it was about a 75% call rate.
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
Just think depending on the day, under the new system, that could have potentially been a 100% call rate.clashcityrocker wrote: ↑12 May 2026, 16:53If it wasn't for Cottontraders and Woolovers there wouldn't have been anything to deliver.
As it was it was about a 75% call rate.
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Mr Rush
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
Through an alignment of the planets this week I was able to simulate the experience of a first delivery circa 1992. Aside from the one detraction of being five hours late for the first letter, it was a joy. 3 bags, 1 pouch box, 0 packets.
Martin Walsh has raised the spectre of owner-drivers hiving off packets and leaving a skeleton staff to handle USO products (point #10). Extrapolating from the above limited sample, there would be a 2:1 reduction in walks. Now, which is a cheaper means of conveyance: bicycle or bus pass?
Martin Walsh has raised the spectre of owner-drivers hiving off packets and leaving a skeleton staff to handle USO products (point #10). Extrapolating from the above limited sample, there would be a 2:1 reduction in walks. Now, which is a cheaper means of conveyance: bicycle or bus pass?
The machine stops.
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Barnacle
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.
We still have a few who wear the full old 80s 90s uniform complete with blue bag - where are they getting it from? Can’t be their same uniform surely?!? Anyway they still moan about having to take any packets at allMr Rush wrote: ↑17 May 2026, 18:55Through an alignment of the planets this week I was able to simulate the experience of a first delivery circa 1992. Aside from the one detraction of being five hours late for the first letter, it was a joy. 3 bags, 1 pouch box, 0 packets.
Martin Walsh has raised the spectre of owner-drivers hiving off packets and leaving a skeleton staff to handle USO products (point #10). Extrapolating from the above limited sample, there would be a 2:1 reduction in walks. Now, which is a cheaper means of conveyance: bicycle or bus pass?
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