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Originally Posted by martyh
I was told by a postman friend i used to drink with a few years back ,i am researching that to see if it is still the case
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Its true or at least was true, we have a new agreement with regards to unaddressed mail which may mean RM managers may try to slip the election material in with our regular unaddressed mail.
We used to get paid 1.6p per regular unaddressed item and 2.3p for larger unadressed mail with a maximum of 3 pieces per household and an average of 550 - 600 calls per route.
Last year during the last big dispute we agreed to instead be paid £20 per week and allow up to 5 pieces per household. According to RM management this would balance out as some weeks we would get no households and still be paid the £20 which would offset the pay lost on the weeks when we would have 5. This didn't play out how they said and last year I was down about £60 compared to the older pay system and I only kept check for about 6 months.
We used to get paid about 4.5p per election item which could add up quickly.
On one week last year I earned an extra £100, the route had 800+ calls and three different sets of election material. Under the new system in the same situation I would end up with £20 because it will be counted as regular household unaddressed mail. Though there is likely to be another dispute over this as it wasn't specified in the agreement yet rumours suggest that RM plan to enforce it.
I can see a lot of Posties refusing to deliver them if thats the case and invoking the clause. The clause only applies to households or unaddressed mail AFAIK. But it would have to be declared in the office and someone else would be assigned to deliver them. This is deffinatley gross misconduct if any payment was accepted for the dumped items.
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Originally Posted by martyh
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As per my post above we can refuse to deliver it and could even when this article was written though we needed a good reason. The pay in that article was accurate but only for standard households, not election material.