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The "How was your day" thread.

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
Barbel
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Barbel »

Packets galore again. 8 specials on a rural within a span of 8 miles. Impossible to get them all delivered by 1 when you have to go miles out of your way from one address to another. Needless to say went an hour over my time. :crazy:
Jpro747
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Jpro747 »

Barbel wrote:Packets galore again. 8 specials on a rural within a span of 8 miles. Impossible to get them all delivered by 1 when you have to go miles out of your way from one address to another. Needless to say went an hour over my time. :crazy:
Sounds like a killer! I hate it when you get loads on a rural and you can't stop thinking about them. I only had 1 special today near the end but on a town round so just went there and got rid of it first to get it off my mind.
greengiant
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by greengiant »

Wheens of packets. Just got them all in the HCT! :oops: Pity we didn't have shrink rays, then we could shrink all the packets down to letter box size! Customers could then use their unshrink rays to get the packet back to normal!
spiderj
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by spiderj »

greengiant wrote:Wheens of packets. Just got them all in the HCT! :oops: Pity we didn't have shrink rays, then we could shrink all the packets down to letter box size! Customers could then use their unshrink rays to get the packet back to normal!
Shhhhhhhhh!

Don't give them ideas
:crazy:
I won
IloveMYredTROLLEY!
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by IloveMYredTROLLEY! »

Light day regards letters and parcels, no national standard 30mins WTLL, sounds great doesn't it?

But then the walk has 7 D2D this week, took over an hour to prep 8 boxes as per standard Tues, still went over by >45mins despite only taking D2Ds where delivery point had letters/parcels.
heapsy
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by heapsy »

Half a walk on overtime, as per yesterday. Got done in the hours paid. Really short on staff so are now interviewing. Will be interesting to see what happens next.
sophie97
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Very quiet today?

Post by sophie97 »

Did anyone else have a very quiet day? usually Thursdays are one of the heaviest days, was finished at 12 today! not complaining just wondering if there was a reason?
beezet
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Re: Very quiet today?

Post by beezet »

what time did you start?
trevjim
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Quietest thursday Ive ever had!

Post by trevjim »

Was there a reason it was so quiet today? it was lighter then Tuesday, I was back home by half 12!
Darren Bent
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Re: Quietest thursday Ive ever had!

Post by Darren Bent »

Probably mail centre not busy and it will means quiet days, this usually means tomorrow will be a very bad day :(
holly123
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Re: Quietest thursday Ive ever had!

Post by holly123 »

Not in my area heavy mail steady with pkts ,I only like working Tuesdays now :wave
bluealbert
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Re: Quietest thursday Ive ever had!

Post by bluealbert »

Very busy in our office today loads of packets,and a lot of letters and flats. :nana
derricksmyth
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Re: Quietest thursday Ive ever had!

Post by derricksmyth »

This must be a wind up !!! Snowed under with flats today from the National Trust as well as xmas catalogues from firms. :crazy:
wabbithunta
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by wabbithunta »

An average day for us.. packet day was yesterday for us. So a "normal" amount of packets, Specials, Tracked, S/F's and so on, no garden mags or xmas catalogues etc. Had those last week.

What did make me laugh was a local school kicked out at noon today. The schoolkids were all walking home or waiting at bus-stops outside the school with teachers in attendance!
Jeez! The little buggers only went back to school the other week and now they're already having a half day off!
"Better to die on your feet than live a life time on your knees"
Newbie001
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Newbie001 »

Heavy day for packets and finished hour over my time. Got payslip today and none of my o/time for last week has been paid.
Haven't been one to cut off so far, but if they are starting to play funny buggers I may have to start.