wolvesposty: somethings for you to consider.20 Jan 2020 07:40
Once again, wolvesposty, you demonstrate, quite clearly, your lack of long term experience when working for the Royal Mail.
You, the delivery posties, will still be going out (albeit only four times weekly) on your daily rounds...but the people who work in processing, as the one day strikes start to take effect, will be stood around more and more, getting paid for it...and laughing their b0ll0cks off whilst doing so.
Everyone, whilst the strike is on, loses one days pay a week...but the Royal Mail loses a Hell of a lot more: the posties can still pay their mortgages, bills, and get the weekly shop in...Royal Mail has to deal with the Network slowly but surely backing up. Just imagine all those irate customers; and also try to imagine the horrendous costs of trying to cover staff, that means thousands of extra agency will have to be brought in, who are not on the floor to keep that mail flowing through to be processed. And consider this if you will. Staff, in processing, are trained to drive the "York Movers"...agency are not. Whether you are aware of this or not, wolvesposty, allow me to enlighten you perhaps: York Movers carry six Yorks at a time...agency, just like staff (RMG Health and Safety Directive) are only allowed to pull or push one at a time...and that includes no free-wheeling (for obvious reasons) or chaining them across the floor. Six Yorks to one. Does'nt take a genius to work that one out either. And if you think this won't have a huge impact in any of the Cross-Docking operations...then you need to think again -- it will have a massive impact!
We also need to consider other things that agency are not trained on when discussing processing.
1. "York Pushers". All nested Yorks, if no staff available, will have to be loaded up by hand. What a b@ll-acher that would be!
2. Forklifts...whether the big vertical lifting ones or the smaller side-loader types (Scuds). This would seriously slow down many of the Walk-Bundling operations (would bring it to a complete stop at times) and the majority of the economy mail that is still sorted from the big cages onto the sliding rails. These machines would then have to be operated by even harder-pressed (and by then) extremely ill-tempered managers...and that would be very understandable as well I might add.
3. The raising and lowering off all the trailer decks and the operating of all the dock-levelers. This is a serious problem. With no staff available it would have to be performed by managers...I cannot even possibly envision the effects it might have. A manger, in some circumstances, could be spending all night showing agency drivers how to operate the dock leveling; or indeed doing the operation as RMG drivers "take their break", wander of for a slash...or just wander off as they most frequently do. A horrendous proposition this for any manager. Who by now would be full of some sort of "by prescription only" tranquilizer and mumbling incoherently to himself.
And there you hav
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