The "How was your day" thread.

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 27 Aug 2018, 23:00

DirtyHarry wrote:August bank holiday Monday.

Job, not that brilliant any more during the summer months, takes a decidedly bad turn for the very worse from tomorrow onwards.

Aye. If things go as normal then by next weekend or the week after at the latest the wall of mail should arrive for us to deliver. If if doesn't we will know the business is in serious ****. I think the wall will arrive as usual though. We have already had a heads up for a big bulk mailing of Screwfix catalogues that are due to arrive on Saturday 1st September which suggests it's business as usual.

Post by **rambo1** » 01 Sep 2018, 17:19

Xmas levels of packets this week.

ewancurze · Post by **ewancurze** » 02 Sep 2018, 12:50

The way it is now, if it goes as usual, Christmas will be impossible this year.

Postie45 · Post by **Postie45** » 02 Sep 2018, 14:25

ewancurze wrote:The way it is now, if it goes as usual, Christmas will be impossible this year.

it relys on OT as it is, but i think fewer people will be willing to do OT due to goodwill nowadays.

mickeymacca · Post by **mickeymacca** » 02 Sep 2018, 18:19

Postie45 wrote:
ewancurze wrote:The way it is now, if it goes as usual, Christmas will be impossible this year.
it relys on OT as it is, but i think fewer people will be willing to do OT due to goodwill nowadays.

Yeh its gonna be carnage, especially if we have some bad weather. Management are implementing cost saving measures at the moment which is completely alienating staff, not the best time to be losing the workforce....

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 03 Sep 2018, 15:27

mickeymacca wrote:
Postie45 wrote:
ewancurze wrote:The way it is now, if it goes as usual, Christmas will be impossible this year.
it relys on OT as it is, but i think fewer people will be willing to do OT due to goodwill nowadays.
Yeh its gonna be carnage, especially if we have some bad weather. Management are implementing cost saving measures at the moment which is completely alienating staff, not the best time to be losing the workforce....

Will they ever learn thing is more and more people do online these days hence all the high street shops shutting they say it themselves but treat staff as commodity like sand till they cannot buy sand for love nor money and that time is soon it will be the case for Royal Mail is not the best employer in the world never mind UK. Because it is a top down autocracy driven by greed and bonuses but you cannot buy people's souls anymore when better jobs for far less effort are available burning your boats bridges so as to mitigate ones losses are one thing but the way this place is going is like the Titanic!

crimson king · Post by **crimson king** » 03 Sep 2018, 17:55

mickeymacca wrote:
Postie45 wrote:
ewancurze wrote:The way it is now, if it goes as usual, Christmas will be impossible this year.
it relys on OT as it is, but i think fewer people will be willing to do OT due to goodwill nowadays.
Yeh its gonna be carnage, especially if we have some bad weather. Management are implementing cost saving measures at the moment which is completely alienating staff, not the best time to be losing the workforce....

It's carnage at our place at the moment now. Walks failing, not enough staff, mail centre apparently failed last week, yorks of mail just left to the side, cut offs aplenty and management walking around in a daze and just nodding and muttering to themselves about bank holidays. Even bullying and harrassment seem to have fallen by the wayside for now.

It's spooky ...

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 03 Sep 2018, 20:00

crimson king wrote:mail centre apparently failed last week

Possibly a combination of shortage of staff and maybe the knockon affect of Network 18, now that the mail will be picking up again, you can probably expect your local MC to fail most days and can probably expect an increase in the amount of mech mail going manual

crimson king · Post by **crimson king** » 03 Sep 2018, 22:07

SpacePhoenix wrote:
crimson king wrote:mail centre apparently failed last week
Possibly a combination of shortage of staff and maybe the knockon affect of Network 18, now that the mail will be picking up again, you can probably expect your local MC to fail most days and can probably expect an increase in the amount of mech mail going manual

Thanks for the reply and....shudder....

Postie45 · Post by **Postie45** » 04 Sep 2018, 15:32

SpacePhoenix wrote:
crimson king wrote:mail centre apparently failed last week
Possibly a combination of shortage of staff and maybe the knockon affect of Network 18, now that the mail will be picking up again, you can probably expect your local MC to fail most days and can probably expect an increase in the amount of mech mail going manual

so = more sorting at DOs = posties out even later = more cut offs

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 04 Sep 2018, 15:37

The last 3 days we have been getting mixed shrouds of all local postcodes. Not good when we are on 2 floors and 5 sites.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 04 Sep 2018, 19:49

Postie45 wrote:
SpacePhoenix wrote:
crimson king wrote:mail centre apparently failed last week
Possibly a combination of shortage of staff and maybe the knockon affect of Network 18, now that the mail will be picking up again, you can probably expect your local MC to fail most days and can probably expect an increase in the amount of mech mail going manual
so = more sorting at DOs = posties out even later = more cut offs

The SWW is going to have a knock-on affect on sequencing, whee it's currently possible time wise to do up to 32 boxes a batch, as each hour reduction kicks in, there won't be the time to do 32 boxes a batch, it's quite possible that there would only be enough time to do 20 boxes once we get down to 35hr shifts. There's only enough time on wave 2 to do about 8 boxes a batch each so you're going to get more going manual as a result.

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:The last 3 days we have been getting mixed shrouds of all local postcodes. Not good when we are on 2 floors and 5 sites.

Could potentially be a knock-on affect of Network 18, if the work is arriving later at your local MC, they might be setting up more setups to get the work done in the time available but might have to sacrifice the breakdown your DO gets to have the space for the extra setups

DirtyHarry · Post by **DirtyHarry** » 14 Sep 2018, 17:47

Absolute shambles of a day.

And it isn't even Christmas.

Dannybuca · Post by **Dannybuca** » 15 Sep 2018, 17:59

My last few Saturdays have been pretty horrendous, whether it be a sudden influx of heavy mail or ridiculous amounts of packets (today was the latter).

postmanzach · Post by **postmanzach** » 15 Sep 2018, 22:10

Pretty good but long. The round I was on hadn’t been fully delivered for a few days so had pretty much every house and way more than 1/6th d2ds (6 of them!!) despite this I was happy, 10 hours overtime was sunny but not hot.