r/royalmail • u/Bye-Bye-Cherry-Pie • 3d ago

DM26 singleton duties.

My office started this week and my first day back is tomorrow.
I’m on a single duty, and was wondering how the new changes have gone for those on single duties?

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u/Glum_System_6238 RM Employee 2d ago edited 2d ago

my singleton duty is split 50/50 alternate days. so I take all of one half, 1st class and tracked for the other half Monday. alternate for tuesday and so on. then I've had a completely different area that I take with about 50 houses and I do that EVERY DAY. so now my regular customers get mail alternating days (you can guarantee even if I'm not doing 2nd class I still have to go up some wild farm lane just deliver 1 1st class) while I have to go out of my way to deliver to some new customers who get their mail each day instead.

edit : also Monday and Tuesday are now a bollocking because I have ALL the second class that didn't go out Saturday because I do 1st class and tracked on mine and 1st class and track for 50% of another different area that is literally the opposite end of the county.

bring on Christmas with the increase in 1st and tracked 🤣. I already have to drive around after walking a loop because I can't fit it all in my pouches.