All you postmen out there

[Neil]

Have any posters who are postmen changed over to this new way of working where we go round in pairs with one driving and one walking?
We started it the other week and I cant see how it can work.
We are having pairs not finishing till 6 o'clock with too many packets that they have to deliver that were previously delivered by separate drivers.
The rounds are bigger and we have had our staff reduced but they have got in extra managers to help out

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Could you please also pick up your elastic bands when you've finished with them? ;-)

 

[Neil]

I suppose you dont drop your dog ends or let your dog sh1t on the pavement mr perfect

 

[Biscuit]

Could you please also pick up your elastic bands when you've finished with them? ;-)

I was just about to say that!

 

[Racek]

Sounds better walking round with someone to talk to?

 

[Gazwag]

Sounds better walking round with someone to talk to?

Depends how quick the driver drives

 

[Springal]

Should have tried harder at school

 

[Neil]

thing is now the postmen have to sort their own mail as well as brochures and A4 letters ,deliver the packets and parcels , sort and deliver up to six pieces of junkmail as well as delivering the letters.
Before the postmen only just delivered mail twice a day.
So much for progress and all the poor postman gets is abuse for late mail

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

thing is now the postmen have to sort their own mail as well as brochures and A4 letters ,deliver the packets and parcels , sort and deliver up to six pieces of junkmail as well as delivering the letters.
Before the postmen only just delivered mail twice a day.
So much for progress and all the poor postman gets is abuse for late mail

All for only £550 a week

So £27k a year. Sounds like a pretty good wage for unskilled labour.

 

[Racek]

Do people actually give out to you for being late?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I suppose you dont drop your dog ends or let your dog sh1t on the pavement mr perfect

Don't smoke or have a dog so ....... NEXT !

 

[Neil]

Don't smoke or have a dog so ....... NEXT !

she looked like one

 

[Westdene Seagull]

she looked like one

I think maybe you need to still to delivering post !

 

[FOOTSKI]

Should have tried harder at school

Your on a loser here neil, this is the home of perfect prick that finds fault in anything and everything. As above they are a few c*nts here but they have nowhere else to go

BLESS

 

[Springal]

Your on a loser here neil, this is the home of perfect prick that finds fault in anything and everything. As above they are a few c*nts here but they have nowhere else to go

BLESS

Point proven

 

[Gazwag]

I suppose you dont drop your dog ends or let your dog sh1t on the pavement mr perfect

Smoking isn't a requisit of my job and anyway I don't smoke and I always carry a bag and dispose my dogs poo properly.

 

[sten_super]

My postie pulled out a blinder last week. A friend sent me a birthday card, and it had no house number (my friend had forgotten which number I lived at), the wrong road (she'd written 'Drive' when it's actually 'Close'; the Close splits off from the Drive) and the wrong postcode. And it still only took two days to get to me. Ruddy impressive.

 

[BensGrandad]

A van drops off 2 or 3 bags of letters etc just inside the front door of our flats and then the postmen eventually gets to us and picks them up to deliver on his bike. Great security anybody could walk off with a bag or two of post.

 

[Blues Rock DJ]

what, goes up the stairs in your flats on his bike..............that's impressive !!

 

[the wanderbus]

thing is now the postmen have to sort their own mail as well as brochures and A4 letters ,deliver the packets and parcels , sort and deliver up to six pieces of junkmail as well as delivering the letters.
Before the postmen only just delivered mail twice a day.
So much for progress and all the poor postman gets is abuse for late mail

Nice to have bit of support...... but- in the 20 odd years ive been a postman I've always had to sort my own mail -brochures , A4 letters & packets have always been a part of it as have 3 items of junk per house . The problem is that by putting 2 men in a van Royal Mail can now make 4 rounds into 3, get rid of the 4th postie and the driver who used to deliver the parcels & extra bags, its not progress its penny pinching and was a large part of why we went on strike.Those of you who called us lazy money grabbing bastards might like to think about that when an important piece of post turns up at teatime when you've been waiting all day for it.