Looking at the graphic again, the singleton appears to have the easier operational model as they are primarily staying within town 3 and town 4 whereas the shared pair appear to be bouncing between 4 separate territories. How much dead time is that?
No one gets it easy as the deferred work has to be delivered. The planning for DM26 should take into account the distances required to be travelled over.
Looking at the graphic and imagining my walk (Town 3) for the singleton which has not gone out for 2 or 3 days, I would say 'Evie will just about manage that. She won't get to the Light Duty (Town 4,) which might have 100 packets on it as well.'
It's not going to work.
What's she going to do? Prioritise parcels and leave ALL the mail?
Why isn't this being done properly by creating new duties which are then tested and signed off?
I hope the greedy wotsits have massive fines imposed by Ofcom cos it's going to be a sh1tshow.
Looking at the graphic again, the singleton appears to have the easier operational model as they are primarily staying within town 3 and town 4 whereas the shared pair appear to be bouncing between 4 separate territories. How much dead time is that?
No one gets it easy as the deferred work has to be delivered. The planning for DM26 should take into account the distances required to be travelled over.
Looking at the graphic and imagining my walk (Town 3) for the singleton which has not gone out for 2 or 3 days, I would say 'Evie will just about manage that. She won't get to the Light Duty (Town 4,) which might have 100 packets on it as well.'
It's not going to work.
What's she going to do? Prioritise parcels and leave ALL the mail?
Why isn't this being done properly by creating new duties which are then tested and signed off?
I hope the greedy wotsits have massive fines imposed by Ofcom cos it's going to be a sh1tshow.
It's a good question. The 2010 revisions is where it started to go wrong. Under DM26 the lapsed walks should return to the conditioned hours. There should be an end to the geographical inefficiency as the new lapsed duties are within the pod. However if the workload is not balanced, e.g. three outside scope duties are in a pod, then that will be a problem. The planning process should be looking at the duty mix in all the pods and the agreement does say that it will not be complete at the local level until all duties clear the days workload every day. The reality? LWT's have been mandatory since 2010......
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I stopped using trolly as 90% in office didnt use them and my driver started passing more and more large packets into bags for me to take as he couldnt cope with volumes
I stopped using trolly as 90% in office didnt use them and my driver started passing more and more large packets into bags for me to take as he couldnt cope with volumes
There's plenty of workers still using them and they are still manufactured. My point was agreements are made but never stuck to.
"The leadership will sabotage the fight and only make the slightest move under fear of powerful working class action" - Des Warren
I stopped using trolly as 90% in office didnt use them and my driver started passing more and more large packets into bags for me to take as he couldnt cope with volumes
If you're meant to be using one as part of your duty and you injure yourself, that'll be an instant blameworthy.
If you're meant to be using one as part of your duty and you injure yourself, that'll be an instant blameworthy.
Only in your head.
I have never seen anyone who has injured themselves while out on delivery without using a trolley issued an instant blameworthy.
It just doesn't happen.
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
I stopped using trolly as 90% in office didnt use them and my driver started passing more and more large packets into bags for me to take as he couldnt cope with volumes
If you're meant to be using one as part of your duty and you injure yourself, that'll be an instant blameworthy.
You're more likely to get conducted for using a trolley, than not.
Are offices tooled up with trolleys nowadays? They were pushed and pushed by the union for ages , then nothing. If we all went out with trolleys for the heavy mail coming our way, even more failures. .
Don't know about instant blameworthy for not using a trolley
But with the new delivery methods and the likelihood of carrying several days worth of mail, surely duties need to be properly risk-assessed and the use of LWTs as an approved delivery method?
Because if they are and an employee decides not to use one, then in the event of an injury the company will almost certainly ask whether the correct equipment was being used. And consequently, if there wasn't a trolley available, management would also need to explain how the work is expected to be carried out safely without it.
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
Are offices tooled up with trolleys nowadays? They were pushed and pushed by the union for ages , then nothing.
By 2013 almost all of the ones issued to our office were in yorks stored in the unused smokers' shed. Reeked of cat piss. Later they disappeared never to be seen again.
That's pretty consistent with trolley availability historically, from what I've read. For some reason the GPO/PO/RM has always been intransigent about getting weight off people's backs.
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