Christmas at Royal Mail

[jayonabike]

Its been manic this year. In the 29 years I’ve worked for them this has to be the busiest year so far.
I’m a lorry driver and have been on Christmas pressure since the last week in November. Working the maximum hours a lorry driver can work for the last 5 weeks, 13 hour shifts, 60-65 hours a week. I’m knackered! I feel like I could sleep till the New Year!
The amount of parcels and post that goes through the system each day amazes me even now after all these years and over 90% is delivered the next day. I’ve just popped home for breakfast before going back for my last 4 hours of overtime before finishing for Christmas and a well earned week off.
I’m not the biggest poster on here, some of you may know me some not but I just wanted to say Merry Christmas whatever your all doing

Jay

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Thanks Jay. And festive wishes to you.

Any idea where my FSA headset plug is? Thanks.

 

[Freds Dad]

The Royal Mail do an amazing job and it amazes me when people complain about the cost of posting a letter. My response to them is along the lines of, if you can get your card to its destination cheaper then take it yourself.

 

[Drago]

I quite like our young post lady. If she presented a science programme on TV then she would be perfect!

 

[Dave7]

@jayonabike
Would you do me a small favour please.
I need some bits & bobs from Aldi (and a few other places).
I do not want to go out in the pre christmas traffic......let alone queue up with 100s of last minute shoppers.
You, however, are allready out and a out .
If I send you a list and my address would you be so kind as to get them and drop them off here.
Ohh.....I forgot the "please" at the end.

 

[Katherine]

Its been manic this year. In the 29 years I’ve worked for them this has to be the busiest year so far.
I’m a lorry driver and have been on Christmas pressure since the last week in November. Working the maximum hours a lorry driver can work for the last 5 weeks, 13 hour shifts, 60-65 hours a week. I’m knackered! I feel like I could sleep till the New Year!
The amount of parcels and post that goes through the system each day amazes me even now after all these years and over 90% is delivered the next day. I’ve just popped home for breakfast before going back for my last 4 hours of overtime before finishing for Christmas and a well earned week off.
I’m not the biggest poster on here, some of you may know me some not but I just wanted to say Merry Christmas whatever your all doing

Jay

Merry Christmas to you and yours.
I think the Royal Mail and all delivery drivers are doing a great job.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

The Royal Mail do an amazing job and it amazes me when people complain about the cost of posting a letter. My response to them is along the lines of, if you can get your card to its destination cheaper then take it yourself.

I just like licking stamps.

I know most of the RM men and women from the local sorting office (gardener/postie symbiotic relationship) who go out on delivery and they are all lovely folk.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Not long after I started at the Hospital. I sometimes helped out in the Post-Room (we changed to a PFI building, with own staff in 2010)
2 Royal Mail deliveries a day (we tried to get staff to come & collect their registered mail, to save having to chase them down)
2 collections from almost every Secretary/department in the place (letters/notes/x-ray packets/parcels)
Internals mail arriving via Hospital transport, from outlying buildings/clinics/doctors surgeries

Staff walking in, to ask where a letter was; rooting through what had been sorted/spilling it everywhere, then taking the huff, at being polite (or even impolitely) told to. eg; "Sod Off!, I don't walk into your operating theatre, for a rummage inside your patient"
The most electronic aid to sorting we had was a radio, to listen to
The regular posties, knew most secretaries/Consultants/receptionists names, so not many got lost

This time of year was even harder, due to the cards being sent between staff/departments
It got to the point, where obvious cards just went into one of those big green NHS Supplies boxes, & they could come & have a lucky dip

Some tried to disguise in A4 internal envelopes, but as nothing could be sealed (multi-use envelopes), they also went in there, as an extra (for sake of argument) 500 items a day was too much

 

[Accy cyclist]

I’m a lorry driver and have been on Christmas pressure since the last week in November. Working the maximum hours a lorry driver can work for the last 5 weeks, 13 hour shifts, 60-65 hours a week. I’m knackered! I feel like I could sleep till the New Year!

A bit of a long shot,but i don't suppose the cap and scarf i ordered about 14 days ago were on your lorry? They haven't turned up yet!

 

[Lullabelle]

This morning there were 2 postmen, working on this street, never seen that before! Made a point of saying thank you and Merry Christmas.

 

[Lullabelle]

I just like licking stamps.

I know most of the RM men and women from the local sorting office (gardener/postie symbiotic relationship) who go out on delivery and they are all lovely folk.

You can buy self adhesive stamps

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Its been manic this year. In the 29 years I’ve worked for them this has to be the busiest year so far.
I’m a lorry driver and have been on Christmas pressure since the last week in November. Working the maximum hours a lorry driver can work for the last 5 weeks, 13 hour shifts, 60-65 hours a week. I’m knackered! I feel like I could sleep till the New Year!
The amount of parcels and post that goes through the system each day amazes me even now after all these years and over 90% is delivered the next day. I’ve just popped home for breakfast before going back for my last 4 hours of overtime before finishing for Christmas and a well earned week off.
I’m not the biggest poster on here, some of you may know me some not but I just wanted to say Merry Christmas whatever your all doing

Jay

Merry Xmas to you too - have a good rest; sounds like you deserve it.

PS: any chance you can put a word in to stop my junk mail deliveries?

 

[jayonabike]

@jayonabike
Would you do me a small favour please.
I need some bits & bobs from Aldi (and a few other places).
I do not want to go out in the pre christmas traffic......let alone queue up with 100s of last minute shoppers.
You, however, are allready out and a out .
If I send you a list and my address would you be so kind as to get them and drop them off here.
Ohh.....I forgot the "please" at the end.

I drove past the local Aldi on the way back to the depot at 8 this morning and there was already 10-15 cars queuing out on the road waiting to get into the already full car park.
My last run was to Amazon this afternoon around 12 and it’s off a dual carriageway opposite a large Tesco’s. About a quarter of a mile before the entrance to Tesco the inside lane was solid with cars waiting to get in. Sod that

 

[jayonabike]

This morning there were 2 postmen, working on this street, never seen that before! Made a point of saying thank you and Merry Christmas.

There will be a mad rush now to make sure all the delivery offices are clear before close on Christmas Eve now. It doesn’t help that there is a weekend before hand as a lot of people will be posting last minute special deliveries and 24 hour tracked parcels to be delivered on Monday. A lot of managers I’ve spoke to are stressing about it.

 

[jayonabike]

PS: any chance you can put a word in to stop my junk mail deliveries?

They’re one of our biggest earners