One for the BHA posties amongst us

[Stat Brother]

BBC News - US Postal Service to end Saturday letter delivery

The sooner we get on and do this, the happier I'll be.

I'm really beginning to resent working Saturdays,
I can remember the last time I delivered anything of value, it's all catalogues and mail sort items.
Then we have less then one days work in total on the following Monday and Tuesday.

 

[Bladders]

I'm all for it, one less day of having the postie walk across my bloody lawn!

 

[Rock Lobster]

As a part-timer who's only been on the job 2 years, I'd be seriously worried for my job if Royal Mail were to do this, what with a 5 day working week, there'll be no rest days to cover, so a lot less reserve/floating staff needed?

I think we'd all love to have Saturdays off, but personally I'd rather keep working Saturdays (and mad rush to my football matches after!) if it means I keep my job.

 

[bomber130]

I only ever get bills so they can wait till Monday to be honest. Unless me birthday is on a Saturday then my postman can get his arse out of bed and deliver me cards.

 

[Stat Brother]

As a part-timer who's only been on the job 2 years, I'd be seriously worried for my job if Royal Mail were to do this, what with a 5 day working week, there'll be no rest days to cover, so a lot less reserve/floating staff needed?

I think we'd all love to have Saturdays off, but personally I'd rather keep working Saturdays (and mad rush to my football matches after!) if it means I keep my job.

I am being very myopic with this, as I should still have a job, sorry about that.

Whether senior management admit or not, that is the way they's like to proceed, hence all the short term 25 (or less) hour contracts, over the past few years.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

If it means I stop getting pizza menus & garden centre catalogues through the door then I'm all for it.

 

[Neil]

if we did stop working saturdays it could mean I could watch away matches.
Most saturdays are 90% junk anyway, mailsort catalogues and bills .
Could easily do them on the monday

 

[Rock Lobster]

I am being very myopic with this, as I should still have a job, sorry about that.

Whether senior management admit or not, that is the way they's like to proceed, hence all the short term 25 (or less) hour contracts, over the past few years.

If I had a couple more years under my belt and a few more people below me in the seniority list, I'd probably be the same to be fair!

We will just have to wait and see I suppose!

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

As a part-timer who's only been on the job 2 years, I'd be seriously worried for my job if Royal Mail were to do this, what with a 5 day working week, there'll be no rest days to cover, so a lot less reserve/floating staff needed?

I think we'd all love to have Saturdays off, but personally I'd rather keep working Saturdays (and mad rush to my football matches after!) if it means I keep my job.

Royal Mail loves part timers. All the full timers who retire won't be replaced.

 

[mune ni kamome]

Let's be fair about this and give shop assistants Saturday off. Restaurant workers too.

 

[Stat Brother]

Let's be fair about this and give shop assistants Saturday off. Restaurant workers too.

Do you have any idea what you are talking about?

 

[Clive Walker's slaphead]

if we did stop working saturdays it could mean I could watch away matches.
Most saturdays are 90% junk anyway, mailsort catalogues and bills .
Could easily do them on the monday

You forgot to mention that you meant Eastbourne Borough away matches
Won't happen all the time Royal Mail are tied into to the universal delivery contract (the licence they have which binds them to deliver to every house six days a week for the same price) and once they come out of that then many jobs will be lost.

 

[brightn'ove]

Why should the rest of the world have to work on a Saturday and not the posties? Wouldn't it just increase the workload for the rest of the week anyway?

 

[Stat Brother]

You forgot to mention that you meant Eastbourne Borough away matches
Won't happen all the time Royal Mail are tied into to the universal delivery contract (the licence they have which binds them to deliver to every house six days a week for the same price) and once they come out of that then many jobs will be lost.

I'd like to know when that clause, albeit a pretty major one, was written in.

It would mean job losses, but if our office is anything to go by, the amount of short term contracts we have those loses would be nothing like they would have been 5 years ago.

Also it may well be difficult for the Union.
They would be against it, but I'm not so sure how on board the membership would be.

 

[Stat Brother]

Why should the rest of the world have to work on a Saturday and not the posties? Wouldn't it just increase the workload for the rest of the week anyway?

That's the point.
For years we have been told by management our work load is decreasing.

This has been open to debate, but recently there has been a noticeable shortfall in work.

Resulting in us doing, at the most, 5 days work over 6 days.

So we either have less staff covering a greater delivery distance.
Or less staff doing more work over 5 days instead of 6.

 

[Clive Walker's slaphead]

Presume it's been there since the year dot. That's the licence they hold at the mo but that may change when they get taken over. The job losses will be massive and nothing to do with float covers on days off but the fact that RM (or whatever it'll be called) will not be obliged to deliver to every house 6 days a week so in less profitable areas you may only get 1 or 2 deliveries a week through your door. Without doubt once it's taken over it will be much smaller company with a vastly reduced workforce, so as much as it's a pain it is better that RM hold onto the universal service licence.

 

[The Wookiee]

BBC News - US Postal Service to end Saturday letter delivery

The sooner we get on and do this, the happier I'll be.

I'm really beginning to resent working Saturdays,
I can remember the last time I delivered anything of value, it's all catalogues and mail sort items.
Then we have less then one days work in total on the following Monday and Tuesday.

I wonder how the 10,000's of other postman feel about ultimately having their income reduced due to being forced to work less hours ??

 

[Stat Brother]

Presume it's been there since the year dot. That's the licence they hold at the mo but that may change when they get taken over. The job losses will be massive and nothing to do with float covers on days off but the fact that RM (or whatever it'll be called) will not be obliged to deliver to every house 6 days a week so in less profitable areas you may only get 1 or 2 deliveries a week through your door. Without doubt once it's taken over it will be much smaller company with a vastly reduced workforce, so as much as it's a pain it is better that RM hold onto the universal service licence.

Yeah all very true.

But the status quo can't remain, and of all the measures coming our way ditching Saturday's is the most palatable.

 

[Clive Walker's slaphead]

Yes the inevitable will happen and as you say getting the saturday off will make it more palatable to those left in the business

 

[Stat Brother]

I wonder how the 10,000's of other postman feel about ultimately having their income reduced due to being forced to work less hours ??

We wouldn't be, although it would cut overtime.

We work a 5 day week on a 6 day rota.

So the day off cover won't be needed.

RM haven't employed a full time 39 hour member of staff for the best part of 7 years.
Over the last couple of years all new entrants have been on a 3 month rolling contract.

Doing this 10 years ago, it would have been impossible because of the cost of redundancies and early retirement.
(not to mention the work load was there to support the staff)