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Post by leolion855 »

mattycash wrote:Very slack today (for a Wednesday) had me feet @ home by 1 watching telly, wonder what tomorrow will bring.
complete opposite here! 3 trays of sequenced, loads of manual sort post, 40 oversized and 10 specials,just got done on time (3pm)

Anyone noticed how the 'heavy' days seem to alternate between weds and thurs being the heaviest?
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Post by crimson king »

leolion855 wrote:
mattycash wrote:Very slack today (for a Wednesday) had me feet @ home by 1 watching telly, wonder what tomorrow will bring.
complete opposite here! 3 trays of sequenced, loads of manual sort post, 40 oversized and 10 specials,just got done on time (3pm)

Anyone noticed how the 'heavy' days seem to alternate between weds and thurs being the heaviest?
Done well to finish on time with that workload.

Hope you had time for a break :whistle

Not bothering to respond to the DOM's quote above yours. :arrrghhh
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Post by SpacePhoenix »

leolion855 wrote:
mattycash wrote:Very slack today (for a Wednesday) had me feet @ home by 1 watching telly, wonder what tomorrow will bring.
complete opposite here! 3 trays of sequenced, loads of manual sort post, 40 oversized and 10 specials,just got done on time (3pm)

Anyone noticed how the 'heavy' days seem to alternate between weds and thurs being the heaviest?
Bulk posting?
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Post by ShropshireLad »

Three really heavy days in a row...and 6 D2D's !
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Post by CPTNemoUK »

Finally chucked parcels out today. Management made me laugh. "Just take your tracked." They are all bloody tracked :arrrghhh. Anyway left the whole lot finished bang on time.
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Post by antcpfc »

Four weeks running our mail,centre at Croydon have failed to clear their work and get parcels out to us subs.on a Wednesday.
We had 50% of yesterday's packets delivered over night to add to the s**t we had today. :Boo hoo!
Choice was book overtime or leave some roads.
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antcpfc wrote:Four weeks running our mail,centre at Croydon have failed to clear their work and get parcels out to us subs.on a Wednesday.
We had 50% of yesterday's packets delivered over night to add to the s**t we had today. :Boo hoo!
Choice was book overtime or leave some roads.
It was near enough inevitable when Network 18 came in. Realistically you're either going to have to get used to it or have your start times pushed back by at least an hour to allow dispatch times from the MC to be pushed back by the same
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Post by IloveMYredTROLLEY! »

Expected the Tuesday after Black Friday to be worse than that... Brace yourselves for the mother of all Wednesdays tomorrow! :shock:
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Post by twoloops »

Nice one day off tomorrow :nana do come back & tell me how bad it was :Boo hoo!
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Post by clashcityrocker »

So as I left on Tuesday the manager informed me there was a problem - there were 8000 packets at the MC.
I misunderstood. I thought he meant 8000 packets for the whole office whereas he actually meant 8000 packets for the duty I was covering today.
Whoosh.
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Post by CPTNemoUK »

clashcityrocker wrote:So as I left on Tuesday the manager informed me there was a problem - there were 8000 packets at the MC.
I misunderstood. I thought he meant 8000 packets for the whole office whereas he actually meant 8000 packets for the duty I was covering today.
Whoosh.
I would of said, it ain't my problem I'm working to my time :left:.strange day for me I had more parcels yesterday than I did today. Tuesday was really bad to be fair. :cuppa
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Post by Celgar »

clashcityrocker wrote:So as I left on Tuesday the manager informed me there was a problem - there were 8000 packets at the MC.
I misunderstood. I thought he meant 8000 packets for the whole office whereas he actually meant 8000 packets for the duty I was covering today.
Whoosh.
I presume that means there is some kind of business on your walk and those thousands of packets had to be dropped off at their address ??
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Post by SpacePhoenix »

Celgar wrote:
clashcityrocker wrote:So as I left on Tuesday the manager informed me there was a problem - there were 8000 packets at the MC.
I misunderstood. I thought he meant 8000 packets for the whole office whereas he actually meant 8000 packets for the duty I was covering today.
Whoosh.
I presume that means there is some kind of business on your walk and those thousands of packets had to be dropped off at their address ??
There's no way that there'd be 8,000 packets left for a walk at a MC, a business that gets that many packets would very likely have it's own selection on the packet sorting and would likely have the MC take the mail directly to the business, bypassing the relevant DO
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Post by clashcityrocker »

OK I was exaggerating wildly because it felt like they were all for my walk.
There is no need to be so pedantic.
Obviously one duty couldn't have 8000 packets.
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