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The "How was your day" thread.

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
dave72
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by dave72 »

Heavy day. In fact the whole week was heavy :sad:

Hopefully a light Saturday :left:
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I've got snotters :Boo hoo!
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spiderj wrote:I've got snotters :Boo hoo!

Like many at the moment. Seems to be a post summer bug going round the offices?! :hmmmm
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Not as bad a day as I thought it would be. 1 special and only 4 big ish parcels. Some of the others got hammered. :hmmmm
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Loopylau89 »

Not busy for me, very few packets large and small, done by 1 :nana
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Post by wabbithunta »

We were absolutely fekked by the end of the delivery. Heaviest day this week! A sodding Saturday!
Every door due to local council crap along with 9 Specials, 12 Tracked, 9 S/F's, 10 large packets and about 15 small ones! We'll all be fekked by Xmas at this rate! All "tired and shagged out after a long squawk", just like Monty Python!
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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wabbithunta wrote:We were absolutely fekked by the end of the delivery. Heaviest day this week! A sodding Saturday!
Every door due to local council crap along with 9 Specials, 12 Tracked, 9 S/F's, 10 large packets and about 15 small ones! We'll all be fekked by Xmas at this rate! All "tired and shagged out after a long squawk", just like Monty Python!

Yup similar day here and the one day out of the week that I really needed to finish early too sods law I guess! :arrrghhh


Oh but don't forget the mail figures are dropping apparently so officially it couldn't be that bad! :crazy:
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by heapsy »

Quiet one in our office. Managed to get some hours doing parcels but the walks were very light.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by panch1989 »

Finished my first week, did overtime for them Friday and come Saturday morning then said it shouldn't of took me the time it took. I politely said it took that time because no one would give me a van.
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Post by monkeymutha »

The highest tower of amazon parcels I've seen in a long time, luckily driver took them as was on a HCT duty ;-)
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by postslippete »

Its been a long day


I started the shift at 5am putting packets in (Im on a 4 day this week); have only put 2 trays of mech from 1st wave and we have been told that there was a fire near the other office so it would be some time before we get the next mech. So we are told to tie-up and do deliveries as usual and the mech that is coming in late will be done tomorrow.

Some deliveries have got 5+ trays of mech because of council letters about the bins. We have been lucky, but we should get them tomorrow. Therefore, we still lapse as usual; whilst the others that have got the bin letters don't lapse. Seems fair enough to me.

Manager from the other section asks me if I will do some overtime in his section to cover sickness. Asks me how many loops I would like to do. When I get out on delivery, he sends message via PDA stating its ok the walk is covered. I then receive a telephone call, how many loops can you do?? lol Normally, I would just take out a loop, but he sounded like he was stuck. I stick my neck out by saying 2 loops to which he said well could I take 3 loops??

At the time, I only had 2 loops to do, plus the lapse. He said that there were council letters in the frame, but I didn't have to take them. So I agreed. Ooops. When I saw the frame, I had never seen so many packets stashed high on the frames, and well, I could have not taken the council letters except for the fact that it would have taken so long just to fish them out when tie-ing up. Best crack on and do the work I agreed.

I figured out where I was going, found my start point, and off I go. 1st loop was a dream, it was just half a street and done in no time. The second loop and third loops were a complete nightmare!! Didnt get finished until 4.30pm

Oh well, you can only do it once!! I certainly wouldnt like to finish at this time everyday.....
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Post by heapsy »

Long day. Did my walk plus most of the parcels. The two late drivers did a (very) small number of parcels and the covering line manager was absolutely desperate. I don't mind helping out, as long as nobody moans about the overtime claim after they are so anxious to clear, and I get paid next week. Had quite a few weeks when the pay has been wrong and I'm not the only one.
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Post by hampshireman »

postslippete wrote:Its been a long day


I started the shift at 5am putting packets in (Im on a 4 day this week); have only put 2 trays of mech from 1st wave and we have been told that there was a fire near the other office so it would be some time before we get the next mech. So we are told to tie-up and do deliveries as usual and the mech that is coming in late will be done tomorrow.

Some deliveries have got 5+ trays of mech because of council letters about the bins. We have been lucky, but we should get them tomorrow. Therefore, we still lapse as usual; whilst the others that have got the bin letters don't lapse. Seems fair enough to me.

Manager from the other section asks me if I will do some overtime in his section to cover sickness. Asks me how many loops I would like to do. When I get out on delivery, he sends message via PDA stating its ok the walk is covered. I then receive a telephone call, how many loops can you do?? lol Normally, I would just take out a loop, but he sounded like he was stuck. I stick my neck out by saying 2 loops to which he said well could I take 3 loops??

At the time, I only had 2 loops to do, plus the lapse. He said that there were council letters in the frame, but I didn't have to take them. So I agreed. Ooops. When I saw the frame, I had never seen so many packets stashed high on the frames, and well, I could have not taken the council letters except for the fact that it would have taken so long just to fish them out when tie-ing up. Best crack on and do the work I agreed.

I figured out where I was going, found my start point, and off I go. 1st loop was a dream, it was just half a street and done in no time. The second loop and third loops were a complete nightmare!! Didnt get finished until 4.30pm

Oh well, you can only do it once!! I certainly wouldnt like to finish at this time everyday.....
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by heapsy »

Nothing like as bad as the last two days. Nice change to be home mid afternoon.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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postslippete wrote:Its been a long day


I started the shift at 5am putting packets in (Im on a 4 day this week); have only put 2 trays of mech from 1st wave and we have been told that there was a fire near the other office so it would be some time before we get the next mech. So we are told to tie-up and do deliveries as usual and the mech that is coming in late will be done tomorrow.

Some deliveries have got 5+ trays of mech because of council letters about the bins. We have been lucky, but we should get them tomorrow. Therefore, we still lapse as usual; whilst the others that have got the bin letters don't lapse. Seems fair enough to me.

Manager from the other section asks me if I will do some overtime in his section to cover sickness. Asks me how many loops I would like to do. When I get out on delivery, he sends message via PDA stating its ok the walk is covered. I then receive a telephone call, how many loops can you do?? lol Normally, I would just take out a loop, but he sounded like he was stuck. I stick my neck out by saying 2 loops to which he said well could I take 3 loops??

At the time, I only had 2 loops to do, plus the lapse. He said that there were council letters in the frame, but I didn't have to take them. So I agreed. Ooops. When I saw the frame, I had never seen so many packets stashed high on the frames, and well, I could have not taken the council letters except for the fact that it would have taken so long just to fish them out when tie-ing up. Best crack on and do the work I agreed.

I figured out where I was going, found my start point, and off I go. 1st loop was a dream, it was just half a street and done in no time. The second loop and third loops were a complete nightmare!! Didnt get finished until 4.30pm

Oh well, you can only do it once!! I certainly wouldnt like to finish at this time everyday.....
credit to anyone who has the energy to do overtime after P&L im just not up to it !