Royal Mail ( No payrise since 1996)

scousemouser43

A point of order here

If you do go down the road of opt out how am i as a postie suppose to remeber which household not to deliver these items to out of a round of 650 househoulds on my own round. & also those rounds i carry out on cover for sick days and holidays.

custardy

unfortunatly thats not the opt outers problem though is it?
trust me i know what your saying.
the way i idid it was a notice on the frame showing the opt outs
then as i tied down i turned a letter on the stair(i was just under 800 calls all stairs) and marked the flat no.)
its up to your DOM to ensure walk logs and/or frames show opt outs

Beancounter

scousemouser43 wrote: »

A point of order here

If you do go down the road of opt out how am i as a postie suppose to remeber which household not to deliver these items to out of a round of 650 househoulds on my own round. & also those rounds i carry out on cover for sick days and holidays.

I have only 6 delivery points on my walk that have "opted out". On my frame I mark the address with an X and simply don't place these D2D items in the frame. Simple! As custardy points out the walk logs also have these addresses marked as do the sheets we sign to declare they have all been delivered.

There seems to be a ridiculous amount of negativity on here re this issue. I should point out that the D2D items are things like leaflets and unaddressed envelopes (charity appeals and such like). This is what the Op is referring to. "Junk mail" as has been mentioned on here would be items actually addressed to you.

As for fitting these D2D deliveries into your normal duty, I just split them between 2 or 3 days depending on the type of items and just deliver to the house if they have mail those days. Only at the end of the week will I need to make a special visit to that address if they have had no other mail that week.

Beancounter

anewman wrote: »

Surely it should be an opt in?! Plus, Royal Mail never put anything through my door detailing how to stop getting the sh!te they put through the door.

Custardy, I have a special manure delivery service. I will keep putting it through your letterbox everyday until you find some obscure opt-out form on the internet (when you may not have the internet in the first place). I think you want manure, so that makes it perfectly ok for me to shove it through your letterbox, and you haven't opted out yet so you *MUST* want it.

Yeah, 3 leaflets a week and a bucket full of manure. That is a very equal comparison isn't it:rolleyes:

Beancounter

Conor wrote: »

Considering posties are on 'job and knock' and always seem to be walking home before the time they're paid up to arrives, I'd say they appear to have no problem managing these deliveries. And now that we no longer have second post and first post can be anything up to 5pm, they have even more time for D2D.

Hmmmm....I must be working in the wrong office then. Over the piece, most of us work more that the required hours per week. The only day I finish early is usually a Saturday or Monday. The rest of the week I may do 15-20 minutes more a day.

custardy

Beancounter wrote: »

I have only 6 delivery points on my walk that have "opted out". On my frame I mark the address with an X and simply don't place these D2D items in the frame. Simple! As custardy points out the walk logs also have these addresses marked as do the sheets we sign to declare they have all been delivered.

There seems to be a ridiculous amount of negativity on here re this issue. I should point out that the D2D items are things like leaflets and unaddressed envelopes (charity appeals and such like). This is what the Op is referring to. "Junk mail" as has been mentioned on here would be items actually addressed to you.

As for fitting these D2D deliveries into your normal duty, I just split them between 2 or 3 days depending on the type of items and just deliver to the house if they have mail those days. Only at the end of the week will I need to make a special visit to that address if they have had no other mail that week.

i take it your main doors beancounter?
its more of a pain in the flats
the one that kills us is every 12 weeks we get council newspapers
the size and weight makes them a nightmare,i was nearly 800 calls before i camoe off my walk

Beancounter

custardy wrote: »

i take it your main doors beancounter?
its more of a pain in the flats
the one that kills us is every 12 weeks we get council newspapers
the size and weight makes them a nightmare,i was nearly 800 calls before i camoe off my walk

I work a rural duty so don't have to worry about carrying these things around as I have a van and only have about 250 delivery points. Jammy really:p

I can sympathise with town posties who have the likes of these newspapers you have. Thankfully it is only light stuff we seem to get.

custardy

Beancounter wrote: »

I work a rural duty so don't have to worry about carrying these things around as I have a van and only have about 250 delivery points. Jammy really:p

I can sympathise with town posties who have the likes of these newspapers you have. Thankfully it is only light stuff we seem to get.

hah we just had a rural office absorbed into our own,its a different world comparing the two