Lazy postman couldnt be bothered to knock door !!!

pulliptears

Have to say, both my walk postie and van postie are brilliant blokes, both go the extra mile to be helpful and always stop for a chat if I run into them.

Oopsadaisy

verytired wrote: »

I dunno, maybe they're trying to be polite 'cause it's early....

Polite...rofpml!!!!

30 secs saved per delivery, 100 deliverys/day = 50 mins earlier finish...that's why they do it.

custardy

Oopsadaisy wrote: »

Polite...rofpml!!!!

30 secs saved per delivery, 100 deliverys/day = 50 mins earlier finish...that's why they do it.

or under pressure trying to finish the duty on time
not making excuses but with RM's new georouted walks the idea of finishing 50 minutes early is a pipedream

sivyour

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

PopeSock wrote: »

Someone could concievably nip in, hid in the downstairs loo, and then have the run of the house when you left, I suppose.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Never mind the toilet monster - Its the burglers coming in through the window you wanna watch for!

sivyour

We had loads of issues with our postie.
He used to tease the neighbours dog with a stick through the letter box, and one day I caught him pushing and pulling the post in and out of our letter box getting the dog to go for it.
I let him meet my dog one day....which put a stop to him teasing him but didnt stop him kicking at our hens or banging the front of our hutch!
They took him off the round for a a bit for swearing rants about pretty much everything, litter, hedges, kids etc but he's back now and I have a bigger dog! lol

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sivyour wrote: »

We had loads of issues with our postie.
He used to tease the neighbours dog with a stick through the letter box, and one day I caught him pushing and pulling the post in and out of our letter box getting the dog to go for it.
I let him meet my dog one day....which put a stop to him teasing him but didnt stop him kicking at our hens or banging the front of our hutch!
They took him off the round for a a bit for swearing rants about pretty much everything, litter, hedges, kids etc but he's back now and I have a bigger dog! lol

I think I'd do that too if I was a postie to liven up my day !

Oopsadaisy

Custardy, as an ex-postie could you tell us how many hours a day you typically worked/were paid for??

Was it 'job and finish'??

Were there 'ridiculous/amazingly generous' overtime arrangements??

Was it as 'unionised' 'jobs worth' 'bad mgt practices' as most people believe it to be???

Go on, give us an insight...

custardy

Oopsadaisy wrote: »

Custardy, as an ex-postie could you tell us how many hours a day you typically worked/were paid for??

Was it 'job and finish'??

Were there 'ridiculous/amazingly generous' overtime arrangements??

Was it as 'unionised' 'jobs worth' 'bad mgt practices' as most people believe it to be???

Go

well when i started (5 years service) it was great (and ridiculous)
easily finished 1 hour early every day,maybe more
overtime was organised on a 'hours' system
so if you were doing half a walk in overtime you would get 4 hours payment
so if a walk took 3 hours,you did half and got paid 4 hours
so over double time
combined with finishing early you could be finished by your time and getting 4 hours overtime!
if managers were stuck and nobody was keen on overtime then a 'deal' would be struck
so more hours paid,letting you out early,a day in lieu or even haggling on the sickness procedure were known to happen
so a manager would strike off a sickness from record for doing overtime
thing is,everything got done,staff were relatively happy(okay still moaned!) and i think people would agree a far better service than now

now one thing to bear in mind here is RM introduced job & finish as a carrot for extending delivery spans and dropping second deliveries

now in my 1st year at RM,the cuts in staffing really kicked in
the promise of walk sequencing machines to sort mail and cut manual sorting were used
these cuts continued year on year coupled with changes to starting time,internal procedures etc

by my 5th year the job was unrecognisable
when i started we would ber on the street delivering by 8am
now its after 10am
my office was converted to park and loop (2 in a van doing 2 foot deliveries plus the van delivery duty absorbed into it)
RM use software to do this and the simple fact is it doesnt work.like an program like this its only as good as the data inputted to it

every day many including myself couldnt finish on time
bullying and harrasment is rife in RM
everything was okay at first for me as i could work over
however once my parter got made redundant and her new job had opposing hours to mine
so suddenly i needed to be finished on time (or near enough) every day
thats when the RM management style comes into its own :mad:

overtime now has to be predicted before you leave the office on delivery.then signed the next day
you can expect the 3rd degree over this and plenty of pressure not to sign for overtime

I know some offices are still in ye olde working practices but park and loop is coming nationally
its part of that pathetic deal the CWU made
if folks think theres mail service is poor now then just wait

not too much of a rant

gazebo

what is this mystical thing called overtime or finishing early? isn't it a myth?

custardy, I find your posts very helpful and strangely alarming all at the same time - as this is the future coming to me very soon...

best get looking into alternatives I guess

cyberbob

custardy wrote: »

easily finished 1 hour early every day,maybe more
overtime was organised on a 'hours' system
so if you were doing half a walk in overtime you would get 4 hours payment
so if a walk took 3 hours,you did half and got paid 4 hours
so over double time
combined with finishing early you could be finished by your time and getting 4 hours overtime!
if managers were stuck and nobody was keen on overtime then a 'deal' would be struck
so more hours paid,letting you out early,a day in lieu or even haggling on the sickness procedure were known to happen

So you got double time for all overtime (sometimes more). Finished early everyday. Or held the management to ransom for extra days off!

And then we had the complaints about the poor hard done by overworked postie. No wonder they had to change that.