Heavy and light days joke

[qwerty2]

At one depot we used to put all the d2d in on Monday morning, unfortunately with the new way of working Monday and Tuesday will have 3 days of post so that's going to make the bags even heavier. Using a trolley is all well and good if your're delivering in a nice suburban road with off street parking but if you're delivering to a road with cars parked all over the pavement then you've got no choice but to drag the trolley out into the middle of the road and some of those roads are main roads with arrogant, impatient drivers. I've lost count of the amount of times a driver has decided to squeeze past me rather than wait until he/she can give me a wide berth.

I put all mine on sat much easier then no problem in the week

In your own time?

[Perseus]

If you take the last few years adjustments though, units will have gone from 1 or 2pm finishes on a Saturday, to 4pm, to 4:30pm once DM26 comes in, but you might get a handful more Saturdays off per year in return for total chaos Mon-Fri with up to 6 hour delivery spans. That's a very small carrot.

Your connecting a lot of dots to get a blanket 4/430 Saturday finish across the whole of the UK

As for the chaos we've had that since COVID and I and others have become immune, I will be going home at my finish time

Later finish times are happening in enough units for it to be an issue.

[ted_e_bear]

At one depot we used to put all the d2d in on Monday morning, unfortunately with the new way of working Monday and Tuesday will have 3 days of post so that's going to make the bags even heavier. Using a trolley is all well and good if your're delivering in a nice suburban road with off street parking but if you're delivering to a road with cars parked all over the pavement then you've got no choice but to drag the trolley out into the middle of the road and some of those roads are main roads with arrogant, impatient drivers. I've lost count of the amount of times a driver has decided to squeeze past me rather than wait until he/she can give me a wide berth.

I put all mine on sat much easier then no problem in the week

Do you put all your d2ds in within duty time ? Or not ?

[A2B]

Later finish times are happening in enough units for it to be an issue.

Is there a list somewhere showing what start/finish times each DO can expect from DM26?

[Pfrizzy10]

Anyone shed any light on why Saturday has been chosen as the day for 1C and parcels only?
Having that one day at the end of the week creates a rush then the inevitable 3 days mail on Monday/Tuesday. Dare I say it, a Wednesday would make more sense, and in the future a Wednesday AND Saturday to make things far more easily divisible.

I’d be happy enough just doing parcels on a Saturday to be honest

Until what time?

My finish time?

[60091]

At one depot we used to put all the d2d in on Monday morning, unfortunately with the new way of working Monday and Tuesday will have 3 days of post so that's going to make the bags even heavier. Using a trolley is all well and good if your're delivering in a nice suburban road with off street parking but if you're delivering to a road with cars parked all over the pavement then you've got no choice but to drag the trolley out into the middle of the road and some of those roads are main roads with arrogant, impatient drivers. I've lost count of the amount of times a driver has decided to squeeze past me rather than wait until he/she can give me a wide berth.

I put all mine on sat much easier then no problem in the week

Do you put all your d2ds in within duty time ? Or not ?

Not always depending on how many !! 1520 finish on a sat but I do 10hr 4 day week!!, office pretty much empty when put mine in but I lock up so problem

[qwerty2]

At one depot we used to put all the d2d in on Monday morning, unfortunately with the new way of working Monday and Tuesday will have 3 days of post so that's going to make the bags even heavier. Using a trolley is all well and good if your're delivering in a nice suburban road with off street parking but if you're delivering to a road with cars parked all over the pavement then you've got no choice but to drag the trolley out into the middle of the road and some of those roads are main roads with arrogant, impatient drivers. I've lost count of the amount of times a driver has decided to squeeze past me rather than wait until he/she can give me a wide berth.

I put all mine on sat much easier then no problem in the week

Do you put all your d2ds in within duty time ? Or not ?

Not always depending on how many !! 1520 finish on a sat but I do 10hr 4 day week!!, office pretty much empty when put mine in but I lock up so problem

Doesn't matter how many - don't do any in your own time
Why don't you clean the bogs for nothing as well
You lock up for them - do you open up as well? - you might as well sleep there

[60091]

At one depot we used to put all the d2d in on Monday morning, unfortunately with the new way of working Monday and Tuesday will have 3 days of post so that's going to make the bags even heavier. Using a trolley is all well and good if your're delivering in a nice suburban road with off street parking but if you're delivering to a road with cars parked all over the pavement then you've got no choice but to drag the trolley out into the middle of the road and some of those roads are main roads with arrogant, impatient drivers. I've lost count of the amount of times a driver has decided to squeeze past me rather than wait until he/she can give me a wide berth.

I put all mine on sat much easier then no problem in the week

Do you put all your d2ds in within duty time ? Or not ?

Not always depending on how many !! 1520 finish on a sat but I do 10hr 4 day week!!, office pretty much empty when put mine in but I lock up so problem

Doesn't matter how many - don't do any in your own time
Why don't you clean the bogs for nothing as well
You lock up for them - do you open up as well? - you might as well sleep there

Not really been doing it for 26 years always done it on a sat! Claim break back sat in my shortest day!!,week day is 0830-1800 over 4 day rural/collections

[qwerty2]

At one depot we used to put all the d2d in on Monday morning, unfortunately with the new way of working Monday and Tuesday will have 3 days of post so that's going to make the bags even heavier. Using a trolley is all well and good if your're delivering in a nice suburban road with off street parking but if you're delivering to a road with cars parked all over the pavement then you've got no choice but to drag the trolley out into the middle of the road and some of those roads are main roads with arrogant, impatient drivers. I've lost count of the amount of times a driver has decided to squeeze past me rather than wait until he/she can give me a wide berth.

I put all mine on sat much easier then no problem in the week

Do you put all your d2ds in within duty time ? Or not ?

Not always depending on how many !! 1520 finish on a sat but I do 10hr 4 day week!!, office pretty much empty when put mine in but I lock up so problem

Doesn't matter how many - don't do any in your own time
Why don't you clean the bogs for nothing as well
You lock up for them - do you open up as well? - you might as well sleep there

Not really been doing it for 26 years always done it on a sat! Claim break back sat in my shortest day!!,week day is 0830-1800 over 4 day rural/collections

27 years in - never ever put d2ds in the frame
More than one set we bunch them together -
i know not supposed too but managers see us doing it but don't care as long as we get rid of them

[A2B]

27 years in - never ever put d2ds in the frame
More than one set we bunch them together -
i know not supposed too but managers see us doing it but don't care as long as we get rid of them

What's the DM26 way of delivering d2d? All in the frame on Monday and all delivered by Wednesday?

That's going to be interesting

[qwerty2]

27 years in - never ever put d2ds in the frame
More than one set we bunch them together -
i know not supposed too but managers see us doing it but don't care as long as we get rid of them

What's the DM26 way of delivering d2d? All in the frame on Monday and all delivered by Wednesday?

That's going to be interesting

Even the planners haven’t worked it out yet

[mr hil.]

What's the DM26 way of delivering d2d? All in the frame on Monday and all delivered by Wednesday?

That's going to be interesting

The official way is either prep all into the frames Saturday if work load etc allows or prep the heavy duty/section into the frame Monday and only do "warm calling" ( any delivery point not getting a letter or parcel doesn't get it's D2D , if time allows prep the remainder when you get back to the office ready for the next day. Tuesday prep the next Heavy duty/section if not already done and "warm call" all delivery points ( basically as you do now if you're going take the D2D). You have to deliver all D2D within a week Mon-Fri none on a Saturday.

All D2D have to be cleared totally ( take them even if you have no other letters or parcels for a delivery point) on the last Heavy day of the week, great if it's a Mon, Tue and Fri week, Not so good if it's a Tue & Thurs heavy week.

RMs thinking is due to the increased call rate of the heavy days you will be going to most of the DPs anyway (about 80%) so there may not be that many that you need to cold call. The light days are expected to have a call rate of 18% to 20%.

Pre DM26 the average call rate was just over 70%, obviously some days were a lot less ( Monday Tuesday in my DO).

Search on Robin App for SOP D17.1 for the exact way we should all be doing prep/tie down.