Has this increased from 5 days to 2 weeks + ??
Couple of new starters at our place seem to be getting extra training time.
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POSTMAN
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Re: Training time
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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tramssirhc
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Re: Training time
The training period is longer than two weeks. All new starters should have a training pack which is completed by the workplace coach and the line manager.
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yellowbelly
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Re: Training time
Don't think the thread this link ends up going to was the thread you thought you were linking to!
Last edited by POSTMAN on 23 Jun 2026, 16:19, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Put proper link in.
Reason: Put proper link in.
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Walter sobchak
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Re: Training time
Just heard from a colleague that one of them has jacked it in today!!
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funkflex55
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The new training programme includes a battle with Leighton. Once you beat him you officially become Leighton's nemesis.yellowbelly wrote: ↑19 Jun 2026, 18:07Don't think the thread this link ends up going to was the thread you thought you were linking to!
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Jb1969
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Why does that not surprise me.Walter sobchak wrote: ↑19 Jun 2026, 18:22Just heard from a colleague that one of them has jacked it in today!!
The record I have heard of is 20min then 1hr.
Both were expected to be given HCT & given a start point & deliver, no training, both walked.
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POSTMAN
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Re: Training time
LTB 496/19 - Royal Mail/CWU National Joint Statement - A Refocus on New Entrant Standards and the Role of the Delivery Workplace Coach (WPC)
Proper link in now. But I do miss the pink shirted one.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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ted_e_bear
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Re: Training time
Is the thread the link goes to what the wpc is actually supposed to do ?yellowbelly wrote: ↑19 Jun 2026, 18:07Don't think the thread this link ends up going to was the thread you thought you were linking to!
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Rockstone
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Re: Training time
Extra training time is pointless if they move rounds constantly. Most leave because they get the hang of something and then come in one morning to a new round that is not prepped, triple mail, tracked and told to get on with it. Some rural rounds are impossible to learn without someone at least showing you the route and the basics of it for a few days. And how to bag it up so it makes some sense when you are out.
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TopperGas
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Re: Training time
Just do Tracked for a couple of days using a DPR route and you soon learn a rural, better than trying to watch what the duty holder is doing as he just speeds around his own duty.