Royal Mail casual Christmas work

barnaclebill

Anyone tried this, have been accepted for this but will be contacted when needed for what shift, I requested early shift but get the feeling it will be any that's needed.
Another point will need to add commute to my car insurance to get there, could be cost may make it not worth doing.

TELLIT01

Any additional insurance cost should be minimal, and certainly not enough to wipe out the pay you would receive. I'm surprised that you haven't been contacted by now. When I did it a few years ago we started at the very beginning of December.

Jlawson118

I did this in 2016, I keep saying if they ever offered my permanent work, I'd take that job back in a heartbeat. I met some great people and they pay very well.

Although have you signed up through their agency, Angard? Or through Royal Mail's Christmas casual scheme themselves? You should have gone to a registration day and selected your shift if through RM themselves. If you did solidly select that shift, they should only be giving you that shift, unless required for overtime which they will ask you as and when you come into work.

Although if you are through Angard, a lot of the staff do complain they rarely get shifts. They take on way too many staff and then don't have enough work for them. I joined and even the management at RM put me forwards for it because they wanted to keep me on, and Angard took me on board but failed to complete my training therefore I never got any work. If you are with them, keep pestering them.

Marcon

Round here Royal Mail casuals have all been flat out for the last couple of weeks. Sounds as if you are well and truly down the list of possibles, so perhaps worth chasing up?

Mrs_Ryan

OH is a long term permanent member of RM staff and he says it’s crazy busy at the moment so there is work there but they don’t always call the casuals in for some reason.

gozaimasu

Adding "commute" to car insurance for a couple of weeks seems unnecessary. And it will probably be pro-rata more expensive than just having commute on all the time. I don't know the general price difference between SDPC and SDP policies.

I did night shift at RM as a Christmas Temp and I found them to be a horrible employer. The quality of staff was poor too, some very lazy and incompetent and it was shocking to see how they throw parcels around. Especially the ones marked "fragile". A lot of them were facetiming people during mail sorting when phones were supposed to be explicitly forbidden. Some would leave newspapers in the staff room with abusive/offensive language written in it. Why?

I also hated the interrogation recruitment process, they openly stated they'd accept a TV licence as proof of address, but then after queuing up for HOURS did they reject it because it didn't have a specific date on it. I had to go back the next day and queue up again. If I wasn't desperate for the money I'd never have done it. Looking back, I really didn't NEED to do it at all. I'd've been fine without it. Hindsight eh. All that sh*t for a few hundred quid.

Phatix

barnaclebill wrote: »

Anyone tried this, have been accepted for this but will be contacted when needed for what shift, I requested early shift but get the feeling it will be any that's needed.
Another point will need to add commute to my car insurance to get there, could be cost may make it not worth doing.

Applications for temporary Christmas work at our local royal mail office were invited and made in October

Everyone they were interested in employing for the Christmas season were confirmed by mid November and invited to attend a registration day where their individual start date was confirmed - typically it was late November/early December, unless the applicant requested a later start date (e.g. because they were a student studying elsewhere)

If you have not already had your start date confirmed, I'm sorry but it sounds like you have been unsuccessful in your application this year.

TELLIT01

Mrs_Ryan wrote: »

OH is a long term permanent member of RM staff and he says it’s crazy busy at the moment so there is work there but they don’t always call the casuals in for some reason.

My brother-in-law is a postie. Where he works, during the rest of the year, they have to take parcels on their normal letter delivery round. In previous years they have had staff with vans just to deliver the parcels over the Christmas period. They have been told that isn't happening this year and they have to take all the parcels too. They have also been told that all overtime must be pre-authorised and if they go over the agreed time they won't be paid. How are they supposed to be able to guess how much longer the round is going to take? My b-i-l is refusing to work any overtime and takes back anything he can't deliver in his normal working hours. Many others are doing the same.

If parcels etc don't arrive in time from Christmas don't blame the postie blame the idiotic management.