We are yet to have any info on our office but according to someone at a nearby office RM want you to arrange your annual leave around your Pod group as they don't want two of the group off together, please tell me this isn't true
For once, I actually think this makes sense, but if all 4 in the group choose to take 6 weeks including 2 unpaid or service, that’s close on impossible to implement. How would it work with the Wallington week?
(I’ll do some scribbling, see if I can make sense of it before I get shot down)
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This reeks of trying to get the remaining staff to cover the uncovered duty i.e. 2 people covering 4 walks.
Sorry annual leave should remain as currently and leave management to worry how to cover the duties
I wonder how many DOs will get the person who edits their Route Planner data to pull their finger out.
We've got people working on that for the last few weeks. s**t's a mess from the last abortive revision in 2023 (DPRs never went ahead). Four new frames appeared in the unit on Tuesday, literally jammed in because the bullring naturally takes up half the floorspace since the last lot of duties were ripped out.
Here's something I was thinking about recently, then forgot, then remembered today:
The company negotiated alternate day letter delivery with Ofcom while technically retaining the six day service. Packets go out seven days yet the service specification still only mandates Monday to Friday. If RM has such a hardon for packets why not smash down Ofcom's door demanding they up that? Obviously I know the answer is no company is ever going to plead for more regulation, but it would show commitment to 'the future'!
We are going live in four weeks. Ten weeks to bed it in then it’s a re-pick.
Money on your re-pick not happening
Why would you set up RM26 and "possibly" get it working then have a re-pick to "possibly" break it and go back to square one?
The re-pick is actually starting in January when it’s calmed down-LOL- but we’re picking before the really busy period-allegedly- well, so our rep says. Because they don’t want chaos during ‘peak’.
Our office goes live middle Aug and repick was done weeks ago. Singletons and were first to go then everyone paired up with who they thought they'd get on best with.
That's not a repick
Oh right, I thought people picking duties, like a list of duties on the board and people picking which they wanted to do going from top to low on seniority was a repick?
Getting paired up with who you think you might get on with best is not a repick
Although what's the point in delivering the Radio Times on a 1c only day when RM are clearly telling everybody no 2c mail will be delivered on a 1c only day?
The more 2C (coincidentals or not) that can go out on the light day, the less heavy the heavy day. It's, uh, almost as if we should just clear every walk every day.
The only extra 2C that could go out would be the manual letters and flats, the mech will get held by the DTS if it's a non-2C day. I don't think RM have decided yet what will happen with any 2C/DSA that has hit the time limit for the product but where it's a non-2C day.
I think RM should look into feeding data into the DTS algorithm from any flat sorting or packet sorting machines. There must be loads of times where a DP has got a flat or a packet that has been sorted by machine but no mech 1C letter. In them cases it'd allow the mail for them DPs to be released.
I would assume, and I could quite easily be wrong, that any 2c that reaches end of time limit would automatically become 1c and hence due for delivery, no? What happens once it reaches delivery office, with it being non 1c I guess will depend on workload and how management deal with it.
The incentives under DM26 don't appear to be the same for everyone
The singleton duties are inevitably going to be the most desirable because the posties can control their own frame everyday and are not relying on anyone else to clear their work and, if they work harder or get ahead, then they will directly benefit from it.
Van shares appear to be the ones where the savings are expected to come from through deferred work and are therefore likely to come under the greatest pressure. We are already seeing this in our office, with the singletons generally completing their own rounds every day and/or picking up additional work as overtime indoors and outdoors, while paired duties depend entirely on another person's work ethic. If you're both on the same page that's great, but RM have combined the inefficiencies of van shares (where the driver usually ends up taking most of the responsibility) with the added complexity of working in a pod of 3 to complete 4 duties. So you're no longer relying on your OP but also partly responsible for other rounds that may or may not be cleared.
Given that singletons and pairings are unlikely to consistently help each other then properly planned oversized duties seems a much simpler solution. Everyone would have ownership of their own workloads, the accountability would be clearer and there would be less dependencies on other people.
In the vast majority of cases, the temp resignations will be completed within 1-2 weeks and before deployment takes place.
Post-Deployment Permanent Repick Principles
The repick should be jointly conducted by the COM and CWU representatives, with the CWU representative given suitable release time to complete the repick as quickly as possible—not after Christmas.
The formal review period depends on the size of the office: 6 weeks for small offices, 9 weeks for medium offices, etc. There should be no delays until after Christmas; that is unreasonable. This process should be initiated after the formal review.
It seems like management is trying to delay until after Christmas, believing they will have a better chance of clearing their office if the same person is not moved after the post-review.
people losing their duties due to pods, individuals who once had singleton duties may need to share vans, and floating duties will be lost. The agreement states the process should be completed as quickly as possible.
Two weeks before deployment, the repick should start, and all duties should be displayed on the board, with a 14-day period to complete the repick for post-deployment.
To think it can be completed in that time frame is nonsensical. What it repack is started and someone is on annual leave and due their pick. It can't proceed until that person returns.
The process should not exceed a duration of 21 days for offices of a specific size, approximately 70 employees, with longer timelines applicable for larger offices. However, it can be efficiently completed within a 14-day timeframe. Typically, managers request that the employee planning to take annual leave select several options, after which they proceed to address the seniority list. It is common practice for managers to contact individuals who are on holiday, provided they obtain permission prior to the commencement of the holiday. This process is not overly complex, as it has been in operation for several weeks prior to deployment.
We are going live in four weeks. Ten weeks to bed it in then it’s a re-pick.
Money on your re-pick not happening
Why would you set up RM26 and "possibly" get it working then have a re-pick to "possibly" break it and go back to square one?
The re-pick is actually starting in January when it’s calmed down-LOL- but we’re picking before the really busy period-allegedly- well, so our rep says. Because they don’t want chaos during ‘peak’.
Our office goes live middle Aug and repick was done weeks ago. Singletons and were first to go then everyone paired up with who they thought they'd get on best with.
That's not a repick
Oh right, I thought people picking duties, like a list of duties on the board and people picking which they wanted to do going from top to low on seniority was a repick?
Getting paired up with who you think you might get on with best is not a repick
I didn't say managers paired people up, people picked with who they thought they'd get on best, no one cares what walk they got after the single duties went. So person A picked a duty then person B thought, hmmmm i like working with person A i'll pick with person A. See?
what is the definition of 'oversized' duties? duties that are too big? surely not.
Yes exactly that, but you'd only deliver everything for half of it and it's parcels+1c etc for the other half, then rotate the following day.
I think it's a much simpler idea than having 3 people titting about doing parts of 4 duties which is more complicated and messy.
The issue with that is, the bigger the duty then the liklihood of an unmanageable parcel workload increases.
It's not an issue specific to that idea the total duty size would be about the same but instead of titting about from different frames it would be all on the same one
I would say zero chance dm26 happening in our office since the last revision 20 months ago our office is a total disaster we are a hub office staff leaving all the time so a couple of days a week we’re told to drop mail concentrate on the afternoon work from the day before on top of that the sick is at an all time high we constantly have all level of management arriving at our office watching everyone it would help if they grabbed a few bundles of mail and delivered it but they would rather just watch and disappear never to be seen again the managers area rep asked me what they could do I told them scrap the for duties make the duties smaller and I guarantee you would make savings he said we cannot do that I challenged him to send two of his elite post man to our office for a week and see if they could complete a paired duty he just smiled and I also offered him a 100 bet if they could.
It'll be a miracle if it gets done this year.