The "How was your day" thread.

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 30 Mar 2020, 19:15

Anyone else notice several hundred percent more letters in postboxes on collections today? Was the only bit of good news on a particularly **** day for me today.

ewancurze · Post by **ewancurze** » 30 Mar 2020, 21:19

Delivered a Pencil Eraser today.....from China.

Post by **rambo1** » 31 Mar 2020, 15:47

bucks123 wrote:Delivering a parcel, rang the doorbell, stepped back the requisite 2 metres.

Woman opens door, dog runs out.

"Don't go near him he might have the virus!!"

She was talking to the dog, not me.

Wanted to shout "then stop ordering sh#te off the internet and don't let your bloody dog out". The dog was friendly but that's not the point,...

Not a great experience that. Don't really feel like we are an essential service and the behaviour of some customers doesn't help (minority at the moment but thinking it could change as the number of cases rise).

I would have politely replied and so might you and if you prefer me not to deliver anymore, that can be arranged.

PostmanBitesDog · Post by **PostmanBitesDog** » 31 Mar 2020, 19:16

Great day today. The usual Tuesday of light mail. Streets only had a smidgen of traffic, while the people wandering around looked dazed and confused. Like a scene from The Walking Dead.

Post by **wallop** » 01 Apr 2020, 16:01

The bumper fell off the van i was driving today our crack mechanics had fixed it to the van with 2 cable ties one of which had snapped the inner bit wasn't even bolted to the frame.

clashcityrocker · Post by **clashcityrocker** » 02 Apr 2020, 07:28

Late turn in the customer service point

5.40 to 7 pm this: https://youtu.be/CLKl6FIBH0U" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

7pm - 8pm this: https://youtu.be/LGxPTy0GtrA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

3 customers.

Dorset Plodder · Post by **Dorset Plodder** » 02 Apr 2020, 09:14

clashcityrocker wrote:Late turn in the customer service point

7pm - 8pm this: https://youtu.be/LGxPTy0GtrA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

3 customers.

Glad you're keeping up with your Music Clash

Don't know how some people Chill Out when they claim they don't listen to ANY music at all?

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 03 Apr 2020, 19:53

The amount of scannable items was like a day during Xmas pressure today. The PDA wasn't sending the signals off which isn't unusual on my rural as mobile coverage is very poor if not non-existent. Reached 99+ just doing my usual rural walk then did quarter of a single shared duty which probably added another 30 to the total.
People are obviously just sitting at home ordering tat on the internet. RM saying everything is going to drop right off but no sign of that. I think we only have the Boris virus D2D for next week so that's a bit of luck.
Only good thing about this virus is that it has allowed us to experience doing just delivery and no sorting/prep/redirections - just pull out and deliver. We have only being doing this for a week but it is really tiring and I for one wouldn't be able to do this on a permanent basis. Doing so would just send posties to an early grave. We cannot allow Rico and his cronies to take us in this direction.

Grumpyoldmailman · Post by **Grumpyoldmailman** » 04 Apr 2020, 15:10

Less than half a tray of mech today, about 20 letters in the 2nd batch. Had a far few cruise mags though. Never in 32 years have I seen so little mail, how was it for everyone else? Took a 20 minute break while out and walked slowly and was still back by 1210. Did I just get lucky or is this a sign of things to come in the next few weeks?

doob · Post by **doob** » 04 Apr 2020, 15:20

Our office is an absolute mess. Soo many duties not going out. Packets everywhere. Mail is definately down but only doing duties every 2 days soo not seeing the benefit of it really.

Dannybuca · Post by **Dannybuca** » 05 Apr 2020, 11:49

Grumpyoldmailman wrote:Less than half a tray of mech today, about 20 letters in the 2nd batch. Had a far few cruise mags though. Never in 32 years have I seen so little mail, how was it for everyone else? Took a 20 minute break while out and walked slowly and was still back by 1210. Did I just get lucky or is this a sign of things to come in the next few weeks?

Lucky you. Yesterday I double prepped four trays and they were all out of sequence.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 05 Apr 2020, 12:20

Dannybuca wrote:Lucky you. Yesterday I double prepped four trays and they were all out of sequence.

Sounds like it was walk sorted only. Probably your local MC is now really short on staff, especially CSS operators

Dorset Plodder · Post by **Dorset Plodder** » 05 Apr 2020, 18:20

SpacePhoenix wrote:
Dannybuca wrote:Lucky you. Yesterday I double prepped four trays and they were all out of sequence.
Sounds like it was walk sorted only. Probably your local MC is now really short on staff, especially CSS operators

I have no idea of the Internal Politics of Mail Centres, and you're obviously going to be struggling with Staff Shortages like everyone else ..... However it would make sense to me to Prioritise these CSS Operators and get them Sequencing the Mail?

EVERY Single Delivery Office is struggling to get as much mail delivered as is humanly possible during this current situation, (and if not delivered at least thrown off ready for the next day's Double Deliver). This normally entails Posties prepping more than one duty, often two or three, they're often unfamiliar with these duties. I always thought Walk Sequencing was a great idea in this type of situation because you could just follow the frame, even if you didn't know the walk.

Then suddenly the Plug is Pulled (for whatever reason) and we step back into the 90s and everyone's manually throwing off EVERYTHING .... which takes twice as much time .... which has a knock on effect with delivering everything.

Just seems like a False Economy to me, perhaps we're just robbing Peter to Pay Paul?

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 05 Apr 2020, 18:45

Dorset Plodder wrote:
SpacePhoenix wrote:
Dannybuca wrote:Lucky you. Yesterday I double prepped four trays and they were all out of sequence.
Sounds like it was walk sorted only. Probably your local MC is now really short on staff, especially CSS operators
I have no idea of the Internal Politics of Mail Centres, and you're obviously going to be struggling with Staff Shortages like everyone else ..... However it would make sense to me to Prioritise these CSS Operators and get them Sequencing the Mail?

EVERY Single Delivery Office is struggling to get as much mail delivered as is humanly possible during this current situation, (and if not delivered at least thrown off ready for the next day's Double Deliver). This normally entails Posties prepping more than one duty, often two or three, they're often unfamiliar with these duties. I always thought Walk Sequencing was a great idea in this type of situation because you could just follow the frame, even if you didn't know the walk.

Then suddenly the Plug is Pulled (for whatever reason) and we step back into the 90s and everyone's manually throwing off EVERYTHING .... which takes twice as much time .... which has a knock on effect with delivering everything.

Just seems like a False Economy to me, perhaps we're just robbing Peter to Pay Paul?

For a CSS machine in a MC you need 2 people per machine (2hrs on 2hrs off). In a MC if the CSS staff are either Tracked or SD locker trained then they might be being used in them work areas instead. With packets being massively busy they might also be sacrificing the sequencing to get packets sorted.

Dorset Plodder · Post by **Dorset Plodder** » 05 Apr 2020, 22:09

SpacePhoenix wrote:
For a CSS machine in a MC you need 2 people per machine (2hrs on 2hrs off). In a MC if the CSS staff are either Tracked or SD locker trained then they might be being used in them work areas instead. With packets being massively busy they might also be sacrificing the sequencing to get packets sorted.

Thanks for the insight SP. I can see where the problem lies. We make more money from parcels & packets (we know Rico wants to kill off the mail). So in this current crisis parcels & packets have gone through the roof, as everyone sits at home ordering stuff off the internet.

You guys are trying to shift all those parcels & packets, probably because you're being told that's the priority (because Rico's still trying to make a profit even if the rest of the country's got other things to worry about). So the DOs only get walksorted mail .... which causes us multiple headaches ... but hey it's only mail who gives a shite? You do realise that a hell of a lot of those parcels are just sitting in the DOs waiting to be delivered? Because we're prioritising 1st Class Mail & Packets due to our staff shortages, and the fact that not all Duties are being deliverd.