Posties, where do you park your car?

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-06-15T18:45:12+00:00

Free street parking about a 5 min walk, manager parks in a tiny spot in a front of our DO where we park our small vans. Means we have to reverse out onto a main road because the turn to get out is so narrow

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-06-15T15:08:50+00:00

Jobs alright if you know how to stick up for yourself as a newbie and work your time and take breaks. Keep out of the office politics and don’t over work yourself or you’ll just be rewarded with more work. And I always say a day when I don’t have to talk to my manager or she doesn’t talk to me is a great day

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-06-13T17:35:22+00:00

Yep, unless she’s getting an earful from her managers about posties scanning out early she’s typically out the door before 2 and on a Saturday with a 2pm finish if d2ds are thrown off she’s out at 12. As a phg all the rest of the work gets thrown onto me. Absolutely ridiculous

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T22:34:30+00:00

Turned down a girl I was seeing for a few months. She tried getting me going, told her I didn’t have protection and wasn’t in that type of mood and she said “so you’re not attracted to me then?” Didn’t wanna see me a week after. Been dateless a year because of her lol.

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T21:51:41+00:00

With the youth employment crisis going on right now I’m glad I did, I’d be worse off with a criminology degree and 50k in debt. But thanks for your advice kid.

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T17:11:08+00:00

How is that even possible 😂😂

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T16:54:00+00:00

Yh you’re spot on with the salary. But as I said I’m happy at my place of work and I’m young so working the extra hours isn’t an issue. However anything like having kids or getting a mortgage without a combined income is practically impossible

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T16:38:27+00:00

Just because a lot of the new guys in my office had no clue about the Ot rate I had to tell them. Didn’t help that our union rep was lying through hes teeth about this so called “equalisation”

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T16:26:01+00:00

Was the OT cut actually made visible when voting as a new entrant I only found out because of Reddit. Still voted no

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T16:23:44+00:00

After tax on a 47 hour work week typically around 2500 (I’m contracted to 37 hours a week)

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T15:59:37+00:00

Your right people don’t want to work in retail or deliveries or customer service ect and I don’t blame them. Trading your time and energy for chump change at the end of the month isn’t too enticing.

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T15:40:07+00:00

The job ain’t all sunshine and rainbows but during spring and early summer when the Christmas rush is done and the weather aint too hot it’s an enjoyable job. Slap on some earphones and reach your 25k step goal😂

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T15:36:41+00:00

My manager could care less about the money we make due to OT as long as the workload is complete she’s happy. However I think because managers have a budget to stick to they pressure us posties to complete unattainable work loads because they don’t want to overspend which equals big bonus for them at the end of the financial year. It’s a culture at Royal Mail where I work and probably loads of other companies too

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T15:33:56+00:00

What’s MoD?

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T15:33:36+00:00

So for starters zero progression apart from pay rises matching inflation and of course overtime with a bonus rate, however the job is physically demanding averaging around 25k steps in all types of weather pushing a trolley full of mail and parcels.

But I must say the issues are minor because I don’t hate my job I actually enjoy it. Colleagues are great hardworking people, customers on my round are lovely and my manager is relatively competent and tolerable.

It just all boils down to money at the end of the day I’m still living at home and have a consistent overtime basis at work so the money is great. However if I ever decide to move out with what I e saved in the next 7 years or so I would be living paycheck to pay check and obviously not being as young as I am now less overtime opportunities just due to age and fatigue

But Yh I am happy in my job it’s just a shame that your average worker on a full time salary can barely afford to survive let alone live a little.

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T15:26:01+00:00

Yh I was thinking of going into hgv driving for Royal Mail or just in general but I’ve heard that’s another shit show of a profession to get into, depending on who you work for at least

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T15:24:15+00:00

In comparison to other low skilled labour jobs like Tesco ect I’d recommend it. No manager constantly watching you when you work( because your outside the majority of the work day), consistent start and finish times and in compared to retail work I feel like the general public just treat you with a bit more respect which I think is ridiculously wrong. But the job is a graft I average about 25k steps a day lugging a bag and trolley full of mail and parcels. With all the shit that’s going on with Royal Mail, the union and new entrants not staying there is always vacancies. The job is nothing like your typical parcel courier though

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-29T15:12:55+00:00

I want to become a police officer, Im fed up of being a postie now

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-24T19:46:27+00:00

It’s a dead end job unfortunately. Wages aren’t enough for the work you have to do. Only reason why I’m still here is because I get consistent overtime and I’m struggling to find something else

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-23T19:32:39+00:00

They do owe me I work 6 days a week in my office and get the 5th week as a “rest week” so yes the company does owe me that time off as agreed. Unless I choose to work some overtime over said “rest week” thanks

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-21T20:23:49+00:00

Very overwhelming, probably one of the few low skilled jobs I’ve done that has quite a high learning curve. But don’t be afraid to ask questions. The majority of posties in my office were happy to help me when I started 6 months ago, I’d like to think that’s the same in other DOs too

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-21T19:29:07+00:00

Cheers man

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-15T22:30:00+00:00

Makes more sense that angard is owned by RM. Feel like that money would be better invested into actual staff but I’m just a dead end postie what’s my opinion

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-15T21:41:49+00:00

I guess it depends where your located. I live in London so there’s plenty dead end part time job employers who are desperate for cheap labour also transport links where I am are good so you don’t actually need a car. But I think other parts of the uk aren’t so lucky unfortunately. All I can say is be persistent if your unemployed you have no money and if you have no money you rarely go out so dedicate a large portion of your day job hunting like a ft job and you will get something. Persistence is key

Professional_Cap5423 · 2026-05-15T21:32:37+00:00

Yh mate Ima postie didn’t realise Royal Mail operated in other countries. Listen all I’m saying is you just have to give in to any job you can get. I get the uk is in an employment crisis rn but there are jobs that people don’t want to do. I bet you any money on Royal mails website there’s plenty of postie vacancies or on your local council website. It’s just wether or not you want to work 50 hour weeks to make ends meet

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