The "How was your day" thread.

[SpacePhoenix]

Absolutely shite. Like a Christmas Wednesday, probably worse. They’ve clearly been holding stuff back at the mail centre, I assume to hammer us when we return from
Strike.

We cleared everything Friday night, even doing a good chunk of the other shifts work. Apart from the mech workloads were quieter than normal.

Any particular streams of mail that you got hammered with?

[sindba]

Absolutely shite. Like a Christmas Wednesday, probably worse. They’ve clearly been holding stuff back at the mail centre, I assume to hammer us when we return from
Strike.

We cleared everything Friday night, even doing a good chunk of the other shifts work. Apart from the mech workloads were quieter than normal.

Any particular streams of mail that you got hammered with?

We got hammered with mech and manual letters. Flats busy but not insane.

I reckon our mail centre failed on Sat.

[Wolf91]

Absolutely shite. Like a Christmas Wednesday, probably worse. They’ve clearly been holding stuff back at the mail centre, I assume to hammer us when we return from
Strike.

We cleared everything Friday night, even doing a good chunk of the other shifts work. Apart from the mech workloads were quieter than normal.

Any particular streams of mail that you got hammered with?

Mech/manual/flats everything … even parcels were through the roof, especially 2D’s. Tracked not so bad though. There had clearly been a backlog because that was not a Monday.
It was more like a Monday & Wednesday combined.

[SMS1969]

Much quieter today, out early and took our time. One of the rare good days.

[scoobymunster]

I thought only red sleeved yorks could be used for parcels? We're getting an increase in yorks with essentially a plastic skin placed inside. My backs in bits bending into them at sorting.

[SpacePhoenix]

I thought only red sleeved yorks could be used for parcels? We're getting an increase in yorks with essentially a plastic skin placed inside. My backs in bits bending into them at sorting.

Probably a shortage of sleeves. Cardboard sleeves are normally what is used when we run out of red ones. Is the plastic cling film wrapped around the outside?

[no1postie]

wednesday s**t, thursday s**t, friday s**t, saturday s**t.

[SpacePhoenix]

Have RM started hiding red sleeves away for Xmas? Last few nights we've had to use cardboard sleeves until we've emptied enough sleeves of inward work

[BenacreNick]

Amazing, absolutely nailed it.

[bertieboy]

Not good despite being ex RM after 40 years service. Currently on holiday in Keswick and this morning bumped into a postman emptying the main Post Office in town. I asked him why he was working on strike day. Predictably he played the 'can't afford card'.
Yep good one, what a wa n ker.

[SpacePhoenix]

Not good despite being ex RM after 40 years service. Currently on holiday in Keswick and this morning bumped into a postman emptying the main Post Office in town. I asked him why he was working on strike day. Predictably he played the 'can't afford card'.
Yep good one, what a wa n ker.

You should have asked him, if he could afford to be on minimum wage with no allowances whatsoever

[bertieboy]

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Not good despite being ex RM after 40 years service. Currently on holiday in Keswick and this morning bumped into a postman emptying the main Post Office in town. I asked him why he was working on strike day. Predictably he played the 'can't afford card'.
Yep good one, what a wa n ker.

You should have asked him, if he could afford to be on minimum wage with no allowances whatsoever

It was a very brief conversation

[sindba]

Really quiet today. Loads of gaps in my frame, easy day.

[BenacreNick]

Fantastic day today, went much better than expected, finally caught up and cleared the frame. (Lots of letters left in other frames I noticed).

[SpacePhoenix]

The sequencing was massively lumpy for some batches, reckon some of the larger walks might have had 5-6 boxes