is mail up or down on last year

[painy75]

has anyone else got a board up in their office stating the weeks traffic compared to the last year. since ours has been up we have delivered more every week!!!! funny really as the plonkers up top keep telling us mail is down and we are losing work

[TrueBlueTerrier]

No board but whenever the Lino says that the Volume is down he gets drowned out by hoots of derision. It may be down in Mail Centres but it sure isn't on the walks.

[L Tommo]

It was down aquite a bit on MECH work in my MC, But it was mailsort2, The 3 went up!! so go figure!! I think RM have lost work from banks, HSBC is one that went off as did back in the day NATWEST... We used to have shed loads of there gear at the end of the mnt!! Still busy and as my pals tell me its not as slow as RM tell ya it is!!! DONT PANIC DONT PANIC!!!

OUT

ON THE COBBLES!!!

[ROCKY]

WELL IF MAIL IS DOWN YOU LOT MUST BE DOING SOD ALL SINCE WE ARE RAMMED MOST OF THE TIME
HOWEVER I HAVE HAD 2 LIGHT DAYS THIS WEEK
WHAT WILL I DO WITH ALL THAT SPARE TIME

[dinho1]

is mail up or down ???!! well at our office you have a few weeks of gettin hammered (everything must go ) to days where you think im sure im missing a few mech bundles. inconsistancy is the word im after. take mon and tues. 2 bags both days piece of piss then today 4 bags and a few loose packets i mean how is it calculated!! WOT A CRAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZY PLACE WE WORK

[meweavy]

in our office mail seems to be up,just on our section alone we have to sort up to 13 yorks of flats and 4 yorks of unsorted letters not inc packets on a daily basis..
so if mail is down then my auntie is dame edna everage..
dont tell management that though..they yhink mail is dropping...yeah out of our arse..

[billypants]

our dom had the best explanation I've heard yet when I claimed my pouches are heavier than ever

He said we are indeed processing less items than this time last year, it's just that those items are bigger than they were last year therefore it seems heavier.

I don't care how many letters there are in my bag. . if I've got more bags and each one is breaking my back it's gonna take me longer to get round. . . so cut the spin Royal Mail and poke your 6 into 5 summer duties

PROTECT YOUR JOB . . . . VOTE YES

[pad]

Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics and Royal Mail Traffic figures................more likely to believe George W. Bush will be first man on mars. Done most TFS systems, tray counts, box counts (IWM), stream-weighing etc. Being simple Delivery Postman go back to easy method. When first joined had one at most two pouches. Now have six to seven most days..........still nostalgic for first team-brief when the fax machine was going to replace post. Somehow no-one has yet figured out how to get packets over internet without having them physically delivered........or perhaps we're all imagining any increase in packets? pad

[billypants]

Which is another good point. . . . how do you all deal with the increased packet numbers ?

We have to take any that we can't physically fit into our pouches up to a screw and get him to stamp it "large packet" then put it out for afternoon (van) delivery.

Trouble is it's down to the screw on the day and what mood he's in to decide if it's acceptably "large"

What's large one day or for one person can be "you can get that in your bag, don't take the piss" on another



USE THAT VOTE

[POSTMAN]

Now that our stuff is being weighed at the MS our traffic is down and everybody elses apparently.
Quote from RM "the internet market is booming ebay,Amazon ect",so who takes this s**t out then

[redvan]

the post in our office is heavy every day but come a sat and you would think that it was the last post for a month wher you would carry 5 bags during the week you are carrying 7 on a sat the dom tells us qwe are lossing mail to t,n,t and d.h.l tyhat must be the only companies that they can think off

[Edward Hunter]

We are alot further down the line than most with all the changes we have to impliment and we now start later too. Believe me , we are f***ing manic most of the time! We have some nutters starting 2 hours before their due time to make sure the can still "get a flyer."We are and have always been a heavy D.O but believe me i`m praying the "light" summer period stops soon

[gazzer]

When is a packet not a packet---I'll tell you when!!!!!!!!!!The days I'm the parcel man!!!!
I can be on a walk one day and take out so called packets then the next day I'm on the van and lo and behold these so called packets have strangely become parcels Whats that all about!!!

[POSTMAN]

Down to the driver gaz,although my guys aint too bad and in all fairness my own guy is a diamond,there's a lot of 2 faced posties out there.
My last office was really bad,how one bloke slpet at night was beyond me,he would refuse to take stuff one week on driving
then throw out smaller stuff the next week on his walk.

[leelatic]

the post in our office is heavy every day but come a sat and you would think that it was the last post for a month wher you would carry 5 bags during the week you are carrying 7 on a sat the dom tells us qwe are lossing mail to t,n,t and d.h.l tyhat must be the only companies that they can think off

Same here.I can get my walk in 6 bags depending on pkts.Today I had 8 bags and my latest finish of the week.Saturdays and Fridays are the worst days of the week for us now.Tues are light and Mondays we hardly get any pkts so theyre easier.
We seem to be getting alot more specials and recordeds on these days too.