mgbrs

as above, ive just applied for postman job local to me, and just wanted know what the companys like to you, and what hours your doing?
cheers

Spax

I work for Guernsey Post, owned by the Government over here but run by a local company, bloody good job imo, well paid and always out in the open with no one to annoy u lol

opposite lock

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Yes mate i work on deliverys great job tbh your own boss most of the day , decent pay and RM do look after you. Many may disagree as i have done in my time but in the bigger scheme of things you could do far far worse imo
You,ve done well by the sounds of it lots of people would of applied aswell

Mike
edit-sorry i read it as you had the job already , good luck pal

mgbrs

sounds good, i worked over in guernsey last year on the la friquet garden centre, saw quite a few decent motors over there, you just aint got the roads for em , kept seening a minty mint white 3dr parked outside the rockmount pub! nice little island, used to like going the ship for a pint after work

Spax

Got quite a few RS's tucked away over here, the 6,000 mile S1 came from over here
Ahh the good old Ship 'n' Crown, Rockmounts a very busy pub this time of year, loads of women down there too!

Coldo

I don't but in the weather we've been having a postie has to be one of the best jobs to have! Strolling about in shorts all morning then finished for 2pm or whatever. That'd do me fine.

Staffi

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I do, have done for near on 10yrs now, one or two of our Line managers aren't great, BUT once you're out delivering as opposite lock as said you're really your own boss.

Hours imo are superb, i'm usually back home for 12-12.15.. not bad really and you can make some nice money by doing overtime, working your day off etc etc..

Some of the guys that do this are on 30grand plus AND still home no later than 3 oclock...not bad really....

Spax

2pm? I get paid til 13:30 and I'm normally home just after 11 some guys are clearing £50k a year over here...

Dangerous Malcolm..

I've been a postie for the last 5 years now, and for what it is it's a great job! I've been doing rural deliveries for most of that time but I did do a stint on a bike when I first started and that was ok too.
Hours seem to vary between delivery offices, but we work 06-30 to 14-30 Mon-Fri and 6 til half 12 on a Saturday. BUT, it's still job and knock so if you're done early you go home, as long as you don't take the piss.....

Staffi

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I got 37k a few years back, yes i know there's ALOT better paid folks on here, but that's not bad for walking the streets..

But now our mortgage is all paid off i just do my normal hours and that with the misses wage is superb..

R4N SS

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my old man is a postie and has been over 15 years.

he loves it - was on nights in the sorting office but they have just laid a load of peeps off so he has had to switch over to shifts - he dont walk the streets anymore as his leg is fooked so sits in the sorting office all day

BRAMMER

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I'd love a job as a postie, for the reasons given above - own boss in a way and you get to walk around, i suppose if you can handle all weathers your laughing, the only problem is theirs no jobs up here

TOMMY_RS

i wouldn't mind being a posty either to be honest any one no what sort of grades you need for it?

R4N SS

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you dont need any grade i'd imagine.

i worked at the local sorting office for a day when i was about 15 - cunts made me lift the most heaviest sacks of mail all evening never went back after that

Spax

Got fucking soaked today

We work a 6 day week over 5 days 6am-13:30 with a rolling day off changing weekly

Also it's a task & finish job so when your done u go home!

I'm out in the country on my bike, been doing it over 7 years now, wicked good with a very good pension

Staffi

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Chris, tbh mate, APART from this last winter ours arent too bad really anyway, it's perfect imo, i worked in a factory on army vehicles all my life before this AND i could never go back to that 9-5 crap tbh...

W17GLE

Royal mail are pretty good to work for the only issue you'll have is that they only seem to take on part timers now so around 20hours a week.

retro d

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Im a technician for RM, ive worked for them for two years now and they do look after you I must admit.
I work shifts 6-2/2-10 but this doesn't bother me as I get shift pay with a good take home an a pension plan.
Have worked in some right dumps before and im happy in RM, good clean w/shop warm in the winter and im even geting my LGV licence paid for.

749steve

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i work for RM as well have done for about 6 years
good fairly secure job, i do 35 hours a week
there are quite a few jobs up for grabs round here but most are only 20 hour delivery only

Ebonycossie4x4

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37K???

i though standard pay for a postie was under 20k.

i have heard you can get good money working your bollocks off but 37k!

my brother in law earns nowhere near that sort of money and he does a shed load of overtime.

hes been doing it for 5 years plus. Early start aswell.

Ebonycossie4x4

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£17,000 North West 23-May-10
£22,000 Yorkshire and North East 22-May-10
£19,500 North West 18-March-10
£21,000 South West 14-March-10
£20,000 Yorkshire and North East 8-March-10
£25,500 East of England 25-February-10
£18,000 South West 21-February-10
£18,000 Midlands 17-February-10
£20,000 Midlands 3-February-10
£20,000 Midlands

Dangerous Malcolm..

This last year I took home just over £17k, and the year before was over £20k. 99% of the time I do 6 days a week for that plus extra bits here and there.

If I was willing to do all the hours I was offered I reckon I could topline about £30k.

Edit - Just found me P60, topline was £20,700 and take home was £17,900. Not quite in the super tax league yet!

Ebonycossie4x4

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thats more like my area. as said if you wanna knock youre pipe out you can earn between 25-28 maybe 30k if you go crazy.

looks like up north is different but down here its not so profitable, also at some point there are going to be massive modernisation procedures which will in turn reduce jobs or hours.

Either way both bad for a postie that wants to earn over 20k.

Dangerous Malcolm..

The job ain't what it was, I must admit. I started literally the week after single daily delivery came in, and that was supposed to be it. But since then there's been loads of local agreements on lapsing cetain deliveries in quiet months and spreading the load etc.
When I started you could do two deliveries and still be home for about 2pm having booked 6 hours overtime! Plus you could do deals with the managers to get them out the shit and book SA rate which is time and three quarters! 30 hours overtime in a week was easy, and you only worked half of it.....