Celgar wrote:2) preceding SWW we have had several days when the first lot of sequenced trays of letter have not arrived with the first lorry of mail. Apparently this is when the job isn't done properly and all the Yorks haven't been brought to the loading Bay. Our usual drivers know about this happening and will seek out all the missing yorks and load them on to the lorry. If we get different drivers this doesn't happen and the york of sequenced letters has to be brought to us later in the morning.
Agency drivers being used by your local MC sometimes?
Celgar wrote:3) Post SWW we have had the sequenced mail either shuffled a bit so it isn't quite in order or sections of sequenced letters have been put in the wrong trays.
Any idea if the sequencing for your DO is done on a CSS or an IMP/iLSM?
Celgar wrote:2) preceding SWW we have had several days when the first lot of sequenced trays of letter have not arrived with the first lorry of mail. Apparently this is when the job isn't done properly and all the Yorks haven't been brought to the loading Bay. Our usual drivers know about this happening and will seek out all the missing yorks and load them on to the lorry. If we get different drivers this doesn't happen and the york of sequenced letters has to be brought to us later in the morning.
Agency drivers being used by your local MC sometimes?
Celgar wrote:3) Post SWW we have had the sequenced mail either shuffled a bit so it isn't quite in order or sections of sequenced letters have been put in the wrong trays.
Any idea if the sequencing for your DO is done on a CSS or an IMP/iLSM?
2) They don't seem to know what they are doing so could be agency drivers.
3) No idea what machine types they use. Sorry.
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Pretty long but a nice round in a little village. Fitbit saying I done over 30k steps /24km through I reckons it’s counting when I’m driving on bumpy lanes but won’t be far off. Worked 0655-1700. Took my lapsing even though knew would be going over and another 2 bits. We were late out due to not enough staff in on ips. Manager cooking the books for sure helping out on scanning and sorting but cba to stop him today. Should have finished at 1545 but got back at 5 and had only take about 20 mins before I started so booked the half hour on top. Easy extra money. Though knackered now.
Joke, I am being trained on a rural round but the duty holder who has an injury can't drive so I need to. Therefore, I can't write notes on where to go and the order of things. Not sure how I am going to remember it.
Interested-seeker wrote:Joke, I am being trained on a rural round but the duty holder who has an injury can't drive so I need to. Therefore, I can't write notes on where to go and the order of things. Not sure how I am going to remember it.
Can you ask him to write some notes out as you go round? Doesn’t sound like he’ll be doing much else
Zero Nil Nought none 0% sequenced just walk sorted this morning, useless MC. Also instead of having a useless paperweight after 10 years service, why not give us a decent waterproof jacket, or maybe a decent pair a waterproof boots, or if that is too much, how about one boot after 10 years and the other after 15 years service? We could fill in (yet another) form saying whether we would like left or right boot first, (and the dummo's would still get it wrong).
masterblaster wrote:Zero Nil Nought none 0% sequenced just walk sorted this morning, useless MC.
Was there a massively huge bulk posting? If there was then it might have been a choice between getting a load of manual and some sequenced or just walk sorting only. if not it might have been a major breakdown of the machines or the local MC is very short on staff and just walk sorted only to free up staff for other sections (tbqf DOs might well have to get used to that with staffing levels in MCs)
I can't comprehend that. RM want more automation/less indoor work for DOs, yet their cuts to our MC means we end up with much more manual. I can't wait until Christmas when our MC manager brags on TV about all the casuals they've taken on, yet we'll still fail IPS most days.
Seven Three Nined over 70 oversized today! Took back three sack fulls, no one in! Flipped with one woman opened door on second knock I'd already wrote ticket out! Had to bit me lip!
scoobymunster wrote:I can't comprehend that. RM want more automation/less indoor work for DOs, yet their cuts to our MC means we end up with much more manual. I can't wait until Christmas when our MC manager brags on TV about all the casuals they've taken on, yet we'll still fail IPS most days.
I don't think there's a day now when we have nearly half if not more than half of all staff on shift are casuals/agency. Must be getting near the same in distribution
